Very cool news. I can't wait to see what you guys come up with next.
wow! i just love it!! ;) it's just great! :)
huh.. i wish you good luck on this project, as it's really nice!
Looks cool!
This looks like one of the most polished games on TGE to date, really nice!
This looks really great, I saw the forum thread on it about a week ago and was looking forward to the official announcement. Congrats on getting into BETA!

Off to check out the "jobs" page! :-)
finally you put up a devshot! looks great.

I hope everyone goes and logs on now, I wanna see what happens when 300 people get on the servers muahahah!!

Orion and Everyone there have been really great to work with.

I never knew that synchronized midget robot dancing could make me laugh so hard...
Fun :)

I was just mentioning something like this to my BF some weeks ago. We was talking about that it would not be long before chatting, flirting and checking up would come as a "game" - and here it is *s*

Offcourse ppl chat in all mmo, but this seems more focused on that part then other mmo communetys. I am sure it will be a hit. Gratz on getting to beta stage, and good luck with future relase. :)
Hey Orion, wow great gig! :) Great use of light too - I really like the feel of the environment.
Interesting that so many german words (Doppelganger) find their way into the english language.

Nice looking app!

Edited on Jun 02, 2006 20:43 GMT
Looks really nice Orion, I had been wondering what you were working on. I think TGE is perfectly suited for that project, and I'm surprised the whole virtual community, music content, ad's on walls, and "TV" screens in the lobby concept hasn't been done already.. I think it's a great idea that would appeal to the masses. It makes me curious to see what the public response will be when you get it completed.
As a compliment, better than There or Second Life even in beta. My only wish would be to see the dance moves linked to the tempo of the song currently playing.

I think you guys already have the right on what makes a game like this fun and I don't doubt that this game will be a success.
Oh, and the number of internet-integrated games that I've seen in the past year lead me to think that advertising and e-business are truly going to change the face of the way we play. Any plans to link the track names to MSN music or the like?
I was really impressed by this!
This looks fantastic.

I just played it actually, and I'm really happy to see something like this, great art direction - and I really see this sort of thing getting VERY far in today's musical/social world. I will be watching this project very closely.

I have a few screencaps from my short little journey. Sorry about the image size, photobucket likes to resize them lately.









Great work guys. Great great great work.

OHH It's you Orion, lol, I didnt even see the uploader username, GREAT JOB!!!

Edited on Jun 03, 2006 16:54 GMT
Wow, this could end up making allot of money, great job.
Oh, in answer to my last comments, it looks like you already have linked to Buy.com to download tracks. Spiffy!
Looks smart and clean. I think it's gonna be a hit.
Woah I tried this last night. It's a great use to the Torque technology. Love your choice of music too.
wow nice look! sort of the Sims approach, great idea
Man, that celshading looks so nice.
Hey All !

Thanks for the good words !

I should point out that i'm just one very small part of a team of twenty or so very talented people putting this thing together. - I just happen to be the one who cruises the Garage Games site most, so i posted the devshot..

Hege - yeah, that's sort of our thinking too. So many people play MMU's just to socialize, it seemed like a good idea to just focus on that!

Sage - we've tossed around the idea of linking dance speed (and/or style) to the music tempo, i hope we'll be able to get it in there in the next couple months. re linking directly to music sales - yep, we've got linking to buy.com, but it's pretty informal now. We're not even tracking the clicks. But we will be !

Mark - re "great art direction" - absolutely. the environment and character artists here are tops; it's a real luxury to be able to work with such talented folks. Thanks for posting more screenshots, too !


Please keep the criticisms and suggestions coming in, feedback from the GG community is especially appreciated since it's generally informed and thoughtful!


Thanks again!
See you in the Lounge !
Wow, this looks really nice. very professional. Good Job Orion
hey T-Squared.
funny, like ten minutes ago a coworker send me a snapshot of you & rooster chatting in the lounge!

thanks for the compliments.

believe me tho, any kudos need to go to the whole team here - i'm just the guy who posted the dev-snapshot.
lol rooster eh? thats cool. ya, i think your game will be very successfull. you and your team did a fantastic job, i really love the models and animations. looks very professional on top of that, the idea is the strongest seller. i've seen many online games like this before, but they they werent nearly as good as this. Hope the best of luck to you and your team members.

BTW, you guys should really take your game to the IGF. also what was the dev time on this game?
the dev time was about ten months, maybe.
but we grew from maybe a dozen to thirty or so people over that time,
and all of them are highly skilled and basically focused on this one product.
so it represents a bit of work.