Our Donation To World Horse Welfare
© World Horse Welfare
Remember the horse jumping Community Challenge that we introduced a while back? Maybe you wondered what good it would do? Well, you know how some people raise a lot of money for good causes by doing charity runs? We thought, why don’t we raise money doing charity horse jumping inside the Hotels?
One thing lead to another, and we ended up asking all the Habbo communities to work together in an effort to raise money for a horse related charity.
The promise was that if you could reach the set target of jumps in each Hotel, we would donate $10,000 to a charity of your choice.
Habbo Helpers – A Progress Report
Last week, we told you that Habbo Helpers was entering the very first stage of live testing,
first in Finland and then in Spain. I checked in with one of the
project managers to see how everything is going so far, and to find out
if we’re still on schedule. Here’s what he said!
PS: as a bonus, they gave me a screenshot to show you! It has Finnish text, but it should still give you an idea of how it’s looking so far.
LTD Rares – A Schedule
You’ve been asking for a schedule for the upcoming Limited Edition Rares, and lo and behold, we found one!
The following schedule is for the remaining Rainbow Plasto LTD Rares, and as you know, 3 items were already released. There are three more items coming, though! I’ve also been told to expect tables for Friday and Sunday, and the Pod Chair for Saturday…
THE RARE SCHEDULE:
Interviewing Heini
In
this interview, Heini Kaihu talks to Mark about her role in Sulake,
what makes Habbo Hotel unique in her opinion, and what’s in store for
the future!
How did you come to work for Sulake?
I had heard about this crazy pixel world that was actually making money
selling virtual furniture. That alone sounded so absurd that I just had
to see what it was all about. Visiting the office for the first time, I
instantly fell in love with the fun, laid back, yet very energetic
atmosphere, and decided to join the crowd.
Introducing Rishell Biermann!
You
may have noticed that we have heard your feedback about how we manage
our customer service and from new Staff in Madrid, the creation of the Habbo Helper project and even short term initiatives like the .com Habbo Council
we’re working to improve how we take care of Habbos. In this ongoing
effort we have brought in a Top Gun to help get things organized and I’m
very happy to say she will now be directly available to Habbos via
Twitter, Habbo Forums and here on the Blog. I would like to present Rishell Biermann.
I can’t say enough about Rishell. In her past Rishell worked at building excellent customer care programs for EA, Zynga and Playdom. She knows the tools, the processes, the people and most of all she knows excellent customer service. I overheard Kitano (aka Mark) telling Puffin (aka Linn) that Rishell has magical powers. Might just be another Kitano hallucination, or it may be true!
Rishell is going to take all that know-how and help guide us to becoming a place where our User Care is legendary. She comes to us from a far off land to take on a very simple mission: Make Habbo a 5 Star Hotel. She will will work with our Marketing, Product and User Care groups to weave the Habbo experience together so that we are using social media, product and great Habbo community tools to make this a place that inspires deep loyalty.
And today is Rishell’s Birthday! So comment here or come by on Twitter and say Happy Birthday to @Habbo_Rishell so she can have a proper Habbo welcome.
The Habbo Council – A Summary
As
you know, we had a sudden spike in bans happening in Habbo.com, between
March 15 and 25, around the time when changes to our Moderation team
were made. While our player support team investigated the bans on their
end, we also decided that a temporary Habbo Council should be put in place, to make sure we had caught every single unjust ban that was placed during this period.
Now that the project has ended, we thought it would be good to sum it up for you!
Habbo Helpers Enters Test Mode!
- Translate this: Dansk, Nederlands, Suomi, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Norsk, Português, Español, Svenska
First off.. the 514 project now has an official name! No longer will it go by its numerical mystery code, from now on, you will know it as… *drum roll please* … Habbo Talents!
And with that reveal, we’d love to give you a peek at the process ahead, what’s happening next, when and how it will all go down… It’s a long post, with loads of information, but you should be a whole lot wiser by the end of it :)
Habbo Talents – What is it All About?
Habbo Talents is one of the biggest projects to ever be rolled out in Habbo (maybe the
biggest)! It’s built around the idea that Habbos come to the Hotel for
different reasons, because they enjoy doing different things. Some enjoy
certain things more than others, and sometimes they enjoy it so much
that they excel at it! We’re thinking room builders, traders, event
hosts, help desk owners etc. Different Habbos with different talents.
Interviewing Marion
A
former Habbo and later a Hobba on Habbo UK, Marion – aka Jet – started
working for Sulake in Habbo NL as a Community Manager back in 2006,
before moving on to Site Production and becoming a Hotel Manager last
year.
Fun fact:
During this interview process I discovered that Marion started hanging out in Habbo a week before I did. I was humbled.
Behind The Bunny: Interviewing Xeregrinus
Xeregrinus (that’s his name on Habbo.com) started working for Sulake as a graphic designer in November 2011, and we didn’t scare him off! Before working for Sulake he’s worked in industrial design, print design and done graphics work for mobile platforms. He’s also a keen sportsman. Since he’s the man of the hour, designing the new pet Bunnies, we wanted to ask him a few questions!
How did you start working on the Bunny? Did you make any sketches or work from any reference material?
I started with checking all kinds of references in the Internet –
googling every kind of rabbit and bunny I could find. Then I did some
hand and tablet drawings and also tried to find out how rabbits and
bunnies move in real life by watching online video footage of them. All
this to get the right feeling and perspective.
Behind The Bunny: Mark Interviewing Mark
Mark
has worked for Sulake for ten years and is currently a Senior
Copywriter. In this revelatory and confusing interview, he talks to
himself about the personalities of the new pet Bunnies.
To make it less confusing, I am conducting this interview via time travel, where ‘Morning Mark’ interviewed ‘Afternoon Mark’, and ‘Evening Mark’ wrote it up. It was less confusing to Mark, at least…
