[Operations] Twinity Server Update October 6, 2009

Dear Twinizens,

Just wanted to let you know of an extended downtime today beginning at 14:00 and running until 19:00 CET. During this time it will not be possible to login to the client as we will be updating the Twinity Servers and implementing a small patch. This patch will not include any new features, rather it makes some small changes to the configuration files on the client which will help in the diagnosis of connectivity issues.

Thanks,

Craig

The Twinity Monitor on Club Masekela/Caracas

Here’s the link, with some really nice screenshots.

it’s one of the most gorgeous places as I’ve ever visited in Twinity and deserves a shout out. As you’ll see in the pictures below, it has a wonderful sense of atmosphere. You can practically hear Putumayo world music lightly playing in the background.

Bitfilm Festival 09: Special Screening in Twinity – Today in virtual Singapore and Berlin

For the tenth time, the Bitfilm Festival awards the best digital animations of this planet. Under the motto “Hackin’ Hollywood” the digitial film community was invited to hand in short films in five different categories. On 1 October the lucky winners will be awarded with the highly renowned Bitfilm robots at the award ceremony and festival closing event in Tel Aviv’s Cinémathèque.

But before the Bitfilm festival celebrates the grand finale Twinity will host a special screening of the nominated films at virtual Berlin and Singapore. The online community has the chance to decide by an online voting on the winners of a prize money of EUR 10,000. Deadline is 24 September – and you can win these prizes.

Date: Thursday, 24 September

Singapore: 14:00 CET / 20:00 Singapore
Berlin: 17:00 CET / 23:00 Singapore

What do you think?

The Twinity Monitor has posted an interesting piece about one person’s reaction to Twinity, and the conclusions some people have drawn.

A newbie arrived in Singapore and was invited to join the party. Everyone there did everything they could to make him feel at home. Not only was he greeted warmly by all the partygoers, a member or two asked him to dance. When he wanted to know how, at least three people gave him instructions, one even going so far as to donate a dance from his animation inventory.

All seemed to be going well until about 20 minutes later when the newbie declared that he was logging off of Twinity for good and never coming back. The reason? It was “borrrrrrringgggggggg…”

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I bring up this incident to point out something. A few detractors have been declaring Twinity a spectacular failure, citing examples of people simply logging on for a few minutes, looking around, and never logging back in again. The problem with such a declaration is that it’s not only premature, it doesn’t take into account the fact that sometimes a person may automatically desert a program for reasons having nothing to do with how it’s being run. Personal preferences and expectations may also play a part.

I would suggest you read the entire post to get the full message from R.C.

In the end, from the Twinity side, we know that Twinity will not be for everyone, just as other virtual worlds, MMORPGs, social networks, websites or even search engines aren’t for everyone. We have a vision that we are continuing to build towards – a virtual world powered by real life, with real cities and real people. We are still in beta, and there’s a lot of work left to be done, and challenges to overcome.