SocioTown Trailer - "Uninvited Guests"

[Chris Evans]

I just posted a short video that displays some of the interesting ways to deal with uninvited guests in the SocioTown apartments.

Here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1edE8vpTh8Y

:D

[Stefan Maton]

LOL... great trailer... looks really good.

[chanon]

That's hilarious!

After watching that I decided to check out the game again.
Sadly, I ran into the same problem that made me stop playing last time.

You can see it here:
http://www.vqservice.com/chanon/sociotown_problem.png

I'm running WindowsXP.
The above happens in both IE and FireFox.
The thing might be causing this is that I have the default non-unicode language as Thai.
It is strange though as you can see that the smaller boxes show text fine, but the big balloons have no text at all.

I think you should try to fix this as maybe other non-english speaking people may be affected by this and it would be limiting your target market.

[Chris Evans]

Thanks Chanon. You're right it's strange that the smaller bubbles show the text just fine but the big bubble doesn't. It's something hopefully I'll be able to sort out.

[Chris Evans]

Also if anyone is feeling charitable, you can digg the video. :)

http://digg.com/playable_web_games/Hilarious_Video_from_the_new_Virtual_World_MMO_Soc ioTown

[Nexic]

That's a really nice video.

Just thinking out loud, but maybe you could take one of the mini-games from SocioTown (boxing?), make a single player game out of it with an ad for the mmo inside, and then put it out around the normal flash/shockwave portals as a way of getting more visitors?