Year: 2007

Over at TechCrunch there’s an article about MyMiniLife. In a nutshell, it’s a competitor to CyWorld or Habbo, with social network aspects and virtual apartments. The client runs in Flash, so you can embed it inside any site: your MySpace profile, Yahoo!, whatever. The look of it is very Sims-like. You use virtual currency to purchase stuff to decorate your house with. It’s put together by a bunch of students who seem to have gotten together at U Illinois Urbana Champaign, though now one of them is a grad student at UCLA. And they’ve been around since the middle of last year, running along quite quietly.

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Ho hum. Another day, another major toy brand creates a virtual world. This time it’s Barbie’s nemesis, the Bratz doll.

In the meantime, BarbieGirls.com, which is Barbie’s own take on this space, has registered a half million kids already. That’s since April 26th.

There’s a part 3 coming eventually as well.

F13.net – Usefully Cynical Commentary » GDC07 – Raphing It Up #2

f13.net: Well, you’ve gone for a lot of user customizability as opposed to full-on genesis, full user creation.

Raph: Well, yeah, I’ve always… even if you go back through old GDC sessions. There was the one with the big inflammatory statement where I told the movie guy “Get over yourself, the rest of the world is coming!” But part of that was saying that the rest of the world is coming, but they’ll be working with Legos instead of with atoms. So, you can extrapolate from there. Nothing there is something new that I’m saying, I’ve been saying similar things for a while.

Part one is back here.