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Except for the superficial similarity of an orthographic 3D view, this seems nothing like Habbo Hotel. Habbo hotel was multiplayer and had in-game chat. Rooms.
by astroalex 3y ago
Except for the superficial similarity of an orthographic 3D view, this seems nothing like Habbo Hotel.
Habbo hotel was multiplayer and had in-game chat. Rooms.xyz does not appear to be multiplayer in that way.
Habbo hotel had an in-game currency that you used to buy objects / furniture. Rooms.xyz has no in game currency (that I can tell).
Rooms.xyz allows you to edit objects, including adding programming code to make those objects interactive. Habbo hotel had no such interface.
Rooms and Habbo are nothing alike except for the similarity of art style. Habbo hotel is basically a glorified chat room, whereas Rooms seems like a Unity game engine for kids.
Of course, content moderation is a challenging issue for any tool that allows the creation and sharing of content, I agree with you there. But that’s not a challenge unique to Habbo Hotel!
- mmastrac 3y agoIIRC they have VC funding so it's very likely in-game currency will show up.
- Xelynega 3y agoHabbo hotel had "programmable logic" that facilitated the scams, gambling, and capitalism. Habbo was not a "glorified chatroom", it was an MMO centered around an in-game currency and acquiring more of it.
- kbenson 3y ago> Rooms.xyz allows you to edit objects, including adding programming code to make those objects interactive. Habbo hotel had no such interface. The the first link in GP, there apparently was programming in habbo, and when actual random number generators (dice) were limited in a effort to curtail gambling was used I lieu of dice but wasnt visible or verified as part of the game engine to actually be random in the specified way.