Or maybe it’s Japanese…

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May 112007
 

Here’s Splume.

It’s free and it’s in open beta. “Metamo” is their shop/mall sort of thing. Looks sort of Habbo-ish. But of course, it’s all in Japanese; fortunately, I have someone fluent sitting about six feet away. I’ll update this post as I learn more.

edit:

Custom protocol for streaming 3d assets. Nobody was around, but it’s 4am in Japan right now. You had to register, and a client download for this custom browser. The sign-in process was a bit clunky. Lots of graphical glitches, z-sorting problems, etc. We couldn’t figure out how to chat, but there were lots of emotes. We were a monkey in a floating crab flying saucer thing, with robots arms. There were 5 avatars to choose from. Very cutesy art overall. Doesn’t look like it’s really expected to be played outside Japan right now — we had to pretend we were from Hokkaido, and it wouldn’t take a non-Japanese name.

Via 3pointD.

  One Response to “Or maybe it’s Japanese…”

  1. 3pointD.com says:
    May 11, 2007 at 7:34 pm

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  2. Trevor F. Smith says:
    May 11, 2007 at 1:01 pm

    It looks like the platform is from Connectable Reality (http://www.connectablereality.com/) but my Japanese isn’t good enough to figure out what relationship they have with Splume Corp.

    In the Japan Times article the president of Splume Corp is quoted as saying that they started working on Splume seven years ago. I wonder what they’ve been doing for seven years?

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