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Habbo Summary by wikipedia
Habbo, formerly Habbo Hotel, is a social networking website owned and operated by Sulake Corporation. Aimed at teenagers, Habbo features chat rooms rendered by isometric projection in the form of virtual hotel rooms. User pages on the website are linked to these rooms and allow users to share content and create groups with discussion forums. Each user, called a Habbo, has a customizable avatar to represent him or herself. The service gains revenue from credits bought with real-life currency. Credits are used to buy products such as virtual furniture for the virtual hotel rooms and stickers for user pages.
The service began in 2000 and has expanded to 31 local communities, with new communities opening in Panama, Uruguay and Venezuela. As of January 2008, over 86 million avatars have been created worldwide and there are over 8 million unique visitors to the Habbo websites around the world every month, with 75,000 avatars being created every day.
The Hotel
The virtual Hotel is the chat room of Habbo. The Hotel consists of a client made using Adobe Shockwave technologies, also having updates to the hotel. Once logged in, the Hotel can be accessed via a popup window on the website. When a user accesses the Hotel they are brought to a screen colloquially known as Hotel View. From this screen, members can contact another user via the Habbo Console, which acts as the main form of communication throughout all areas of the Hotel and use the Navigator to navigate their way to a chat room.
Community
Habbo is home to a wide community of people all around the world. Many within the hotel spend their time meeting new people but some prefer to try and trade their items to make a profit. Competition to have the best "furni" is everywhere. However some have found a way to get free items by tricking other users to give up their paid for items. In some cases, user can be scammed out of several hundred dollars.
Currency
Credits, also known as Coins in other websites, are the currency used in Habbo. Credits can be purchased using a variety of different services, such as credit card, a telephone service and via SMS. Credits are often given out as prizes for competitions held in the community. The Credits are stored in the user's purse accessible in any public or private room as well as on the Hotel view and while logged in on the website. Credits can also be redeemed into Exchange, which displays the Credits as an item of virtual furniture, the furniture can then be traded among users, and redeemed back into Credits.
Credits for a variety of different features within Habbo, these features are listed below:
Virtual furniture
Virtual furniture can be purchased inside the Hotel from the Catalogue using Credits. Users then can use the furniture to decorate and furnish their Guest Room. The furniture can be traded among users using a trading dialogue. Many users strive to collect more rare and exclusive furniture. Rare furniture is often sold in the Catalogue, but for a limited amount of time, and thus increasing it's value after it leaves the Catalogue. Furniture can also be won by competitions held on the website. You can also win furniture by playing games such as Cozzie Changes, Falling Furniture, Don't Hit The Wall, Defend Your Pod and much, much more!
Habbo Club
Habbo Club is a premium subscription that offers many additional benefits which can be purchased using Credits. All subscribers receive a badge, that is placed next to their avatar, and can be seen by all other users. Every month an item of virtual furniture is delivered to every subscriber which varies monthly. Subscribers also gain access to a separate queue when attempting to enter full Public Rooms and access to special Public Rooms which are not accessible non-subscribers. Along with this, they also get access to special clothing and accessories, more Guest Room layouts, no website advertisements, a larger friend list capacity and special room commands.
Accessories
User and group page accessories can be purchased on the website using the user page interface with Credits. Although there are free accessories available, additional accessories such as stickers, notes, widgets and backgrounds can be dropped from the Inventory onto a drag and drop interface in which users can design and save their page. Accessories cannot be traded among users.
Games
There are also many games available to users that require credits to be played. These games are often more popular than the free games available in other areas of the hotel.
* Wobble Squabble — a game played on inflatables in a swimming pool in the Hotel. Players must nudge, slap and push their opponents off the inflatables and into the water using various keys on the keyboard.
* Snow Storm — Players must throw snowballs at the opposing team. More snowballs thrown by a player that hit, the more points that player gains for their team. There are also many different scenarios and maps that players can choose to play in.
* Battle Ball — a game played on "space hoppers". Teams of a minimum of 2 must try and "claim" as many squares as possible, by bouncing on them with their individual space hopper within the time limit set. When a square is bounced on by a player, it changes the colour to the team's colour. A recent update to the game was released to some hotels, including many new features.
* Diving — Located in the Hotel's main swimming area, users use the diving board to complete their own unique diving sequences. Moves include: stars, flips, and air punches. Points (up to 10) are awarded by other users and the divers ultimate score is displayed on the video screen.
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