A Virtual World For Your Mobile Phone
Matt Mihaly is blogging about a new experimental virtual world from the makers of Habbo Hotel. Called Mini Friday, it’s designed to work on Nokia mobile phones. The experiment is admirable in its simplicity: “We are trying to find out if real-time virtual worlds make sense on mobile devices.” I’d wager they do, although they may be better off when linked to a PC-based world as well. It seems to work for Neopets (insofar as Neopets actually constitutes a virtual world). I know of several other virtual world / MMO companies that are contemplating adding a mobile component, or already have one in the works. As processing power increases and storage and display become more efficient, it would seem to be inevitable. We like having the option of checking our email and even browsing the Web while we’re on the go, why wouldn’t we want to have the option to check into a virtual world?
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I have a virtual world playing on my toaster right now. It’s a shame in its in Korean, or I might see if I could buy some land in it. So far, all it does is confuse my order for putting blueberry jam on instead of the marmalade. Ah well, I’m not so picky. The virtual world playing on my refrigerator, well…*shudders*….
it does bring the element of being able to be a virtual world it all the time you want, hence you always bring your phone everywhere.