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Habbo Hotel, the massively popular international online community, is expanding into linear animation. Habbo Hotel, for those who haven’t checked in yet, is much like The Sims Online, Puzzle Pirates, or Disney’s Toontown - it’s a virtual environment mainly targeted at the teenage market where individuals can meet up, play games and express themselves. Following a recent TV commercial effort, Sulake Labs, the Finish company behind Habbo Hotel, is embarking on an animation challenge. The project is being headed up by Dale Taylor, a YTV vet, who is currently accepting applications from animation studios, who will end up animating a total of 15 three-minute ‘Habbosodes,’ all animated in Flash. The first studio on board is Bardel Entertainment, a Canadian animation studio that worked on Warner Bros. Animation’s ‘Mucha Lucha.’ Their episode and the 14 others will eventually be compiled on DVD, which will be distributed online and at various retail outlets.
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"Habbo Hotel is a virtual hotel where you can hang out and make new friends. It's designed for 13 to 18 year olds in the US. When you register you 'become' a Habbo and then you can walk, dance, eat, drink and chat in the cafes, restaurants, swimming pools and games rooms. The real fun begins when you decorate and furnish your own room. Then you can host your own party. It's not hard to break into conversation for the first time and you'll soon find a friend who has something in common with you."
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"Habbo Hotel ... has MySpace-like profile pages. He showed a popular profile of a Finnish user. The guestbook has more than 30,000 comments in it -- and this is just a regular user. She's just doing well in the world and being polite."
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To play Habbo Hotel, one must first create an avatar. The sign up process includes the selection of a desired Habbo Name and Motto (formerly a Mission - a brief description of the player, or what the player wants to achieve on the game). The newly registered Habbo now has the option to choose from a variety of clothing, shoes, hair and skin colour. Once the person is finished registering, he/she is transported to a screen known as hotel view. These options, and the motto option can all be modified at any time.
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Habbo Hotel, an insanely-popular avatar-based chat service, has made the leap from the web to the Nokia N-Gage mobile device. Habbo honchos Sulake announced today that their new game Habbo Islands will allow the existing Habbo community to embark on "an exotic, fun-filled adventure vacation." While there are 20 "adventures" available on the self-contained island, the killer app for the mobile version of Habbo is its connectivity with Habbo Hotel via an in-game console, allowing friends to chat on the go.
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Habbo Hotel's moderation is covered by paid moderator staff. Moderators are police vetted Sulake employees who work from home.[8] Moderators can be recognised by the prefix "MOD-" in front of their account name and by a Habbo Staff badge.
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