Virtual world: Habbo Hotel goes mobile
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Finnish company Sulake is well known for their Habbo Hotel platform. It’s not visually as appealing as Second Life, but the pixel-style online community drives some 7 million unique users worldwide as claimed. Recently, Sulake starts pounding into the mobile market with the launch of Mini Friday.
For now, the project is a test on virtual worlds on mobile phones, to find out if real-time virtual worlds make sense on mobile devices. Mini Friday works on Nokia cellphones and only shows one small bar compared to the hundreds rooms in Habbo Hotel. The service is also not actively moderated and users may be exposed to mature chat dialog.
Us: Mini Friday has many advantages compared to other virtual world. Pictures are fast to download on a cellphone, colorful, and the game functionalities have extensively been adopted by members of the web-based version. It could be used a corridor leading new users to the most stable game.
Jan 29, 2007 | By Nuno
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[…] We recently talked about Mini Friday, a virtual world for cellphone users designed and developed by Sulake, the company well known for its Habbo Hotel. The game is promoted as an experiment, a beta project to check if a virtual world on mobile would be interesting. Chinese company Tencent got this answer: It works. And it works very well. […]