Like a delicious pie long-a-baking, Whirled emerged from the alpha oven this week into flavorful open beta. You can play!<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.whirled.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n We’ve been in closed invite-only alpha for just over a year, since we announced Whirled at GDC 2007<\/a>, with a pretty small community of very dedicated and creative players. It’s exciting to see her with 200 simultaneous players. Send me a friend request<\/a>!<\/p>\n You need Flash 9.0.115 and FF 2\/3, IE 7\/8 or Safari. Whirled is very Javascript (GWT<\/a>) and Flash intensive, as Cory discovered<\/a>. It helps to have Firefox 3 beta 4<\/a>, which has faster javascript and has fixed problems we were having with Flash ‘starving out’ GWT.<\/p>\n We made most of the games, but only a small part of the other stuff (~600 avatars, ~2,500 pieces of furniture, ~60 pets, etc.) available in the Shop<\/a>. More about making stuff and a whole bunch of code can be found in the Whirled wiki<\/a>. The market is fairly robust, for example Starry Night<\/a> by Pareia and Sassy Skelly<\/a> by Moppy, each with 200+ sales so far. We have only implemented Coins, the ‘soft’ or ‘attention’ currency, and they are pretty easy to come by playing games.<\/p>\n From the selection of Games<\/a>: LolCaptions<\/a> (LOLcats \/ silent movie captions to flickr photos), Brawler Whirled<\/a>; (‘A side scrolling crawl-n-brawl game involving swords, gnolls, and cuteness’) by Ian of Mac Hall<\/a> \/ Three Panel Soul<\/a>, Boomie Time<\/a> (by player The Cosmic Cheese, no graphics, yet),\u00c2\u00a0 and Bella Bingo<\/a> (an experimental in-Whirled game).<\/p>\n We had a plan to go beta in September 2007 with a Facebook app. We had it all working, but with the notable support of our new (as of June 2007) investor<\/a> Jon Callaghan of True Ventures<\/a>, we decided to delay and go back to work on UI and polish our selection of multi-player games. I’m glad we did. For the curious, we are not worrying about apps right now, yet verily, you can embed Whirled easily enough in ur myspace<\/a>. Forsooth, tis old school.<\/p>\n Props to Sadiekate<\/a>, SilentKnight<\/a>, with first room embed, Matt<\/a>, first to post in my reader, and Allakhazam<\/a> who get first post!1!!<\/p>\n Merry Spring Equinox! All is well, and I hope with you. More soon!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like a delicious pie long-a-baking, Whirled emerged from the alpha oven this week into flavorful open beta. You can play! http:\/\/www.whirled.com\/ We’ve been in closed invite-only alpha for just over a year, since we announced Whirled at GDC 2007, with a pretty small community of very dedicated and creative players. It’s exciting to see her … Continue reading Whirled goes Open Beta<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefloggingwillcontinue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefloggingwillcontinue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefloggingwillcontinue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefloggingwillcontinue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefloggingwillcontinue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thefloggingwillcontinue.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefloggingwillcontinue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefloggingwillcontinue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefloggingwillcontinue.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}