Virtual Worlds..
The first virtual world is Habbo Hotel. I started playing Habbo Hotel around 2001 after a friend told me about it. Basically the idea of the world is that you have your own character, and you can create rooms inside Habbo Hotel. The rooms you create are left to your own imagination, usually people create game rooms were you compete with each other to win prizes. Habbo Hotel is free to play, and create empty rooms, however if you want to furnish your room with furniture or 'furni' as it is known in the game, then you have to pay with real money to get credits which is the hotels virtual currency. When I used to play £3.00 could get you 35 credits and you could buy alot of things with that. You can also trade items with other people.
Website: Habbo.com
Website: Habbo.com
The second virtual world I used to play was 'Coke Studios'.
Coke Studios was made by the same company called Sulake, that made Habbo Hotel. It was created for Coca-Cola and was primarily used to target US consumers. However, anyone in the world could join the virtual world. Coke Studios was similar to Habbo Hotel, you created your own charactercalled 'V-ego', you created rooms, and could chat and trade with other people. The differences were that the gamewas free to play. The Currency in the game was dB which stands for decibels. You earned decibels by Receiving 'Thumbs Up' votes from other users whilst performing music, Drinking Virtual Coca-Colas found in crates, vending machines, and refrigerators, Playing other games on the Coke Studios website and Filling out surveys. Coke studios was also based around music. Once you created your own virtual character the first piece of furniture you receive are DJ Decks, and you could mix a tune, save it and then go to a public place and play your music and if other people liked it you would get a thumbs up and earn more decibels. Coke studios was very popular, but because it was free it contained alot of bugs and loading issues and very rarely got updated. Coke Studios is no longer 'live' and their is very little information out their about it. If you search for Coke Studios now all you will find is information about 'a Pakistani television series featuring live music performances'.
Coke Studios was made by the same company called Sulake, that made Habbo Hotel. It was created for Coca-Cola and was primarily used to target US consumers. However, anyone in the world could join the virtual world. Coke Studios was similar to Habbo Hotel, you created your own charactercalled 'V-ego', you created rooms, and could chat and trade with other people. The differences were that the gamewas free to play. The Currency in the game was dB which stands for decibels. You earned decibels by Receiving 'Thumbs Up' votes from other users whilst performing music, Drinking Virtual Coca-Colas found in crates, vending machines, and refrigerators, Playing other games on the Coke Studios website and Filling out surveys. Coke studios was also based around music. Once you created your own virtual character the first piece of furniture you receive are DJ Decks, and you could mix a tune, save it and then go to a public place and play your music and if other people liked it you would get a thumbs up and earn more decibels. Coke studios was very popular, but because it was free it contained alot of bugs and loading issues and very rarely got updated. Coke Studios is no longer 'live' and their is very little information out their about it. If you search for Coke Studios now all you will find is information about 'a Pakistani television series featuring live music performances'.Some images of Coke Studios:
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- Steven
- Liverpool, United Kingdom
- 20 years old, Interactive Media Design student. I try to make design. Music is one of my biggest Inspirations. Songs, lyrics, artwork. I hope to one day become a successful designer. I'm capable of logic, I just find it kind of boring. Enjoy reading my blog. http://twitter.com/OmgItsSte
24 January 2011 at 05:56
This is interesting - why do you think you played in these environments? What was their appeal for you?
Sarah