#psychatica

[psychatica]

So my friend has an interesting idea,

He wants to see Psychatica become a game instead of simply a virtual world social network.

"I was thinking of farming, crafting, gathering, mining, smithing, combat of different kinds. Users can develop items using a development kit and then introduce it into the game. They can designate a crafting recipe for that item and make it themselves to sell or us. It'll be a bit technical for some but that can serve as a quality controller."

Now I must say when I started this project a few months before TinierMe's demise I had totally intended it as a replacement for TM — not really any set theme, or "game" aspect... just a place where people could build, explore, and communicate.

However after we got some NPC ideas going the site started to become more themed-like and less generic. Which is TOTALLY awesome!

[psychatica]

So I've been thinking of adding new resource types (or statistic types, not sure what the difference is/if there will be a difference yet) to Psychatica (in addition to the default Silver (PsychatiSilver) and Gold (PsychatiGold) that will be pre-installed with PhoenixSNS).

Unique to Psychatica, as it is going to be more of a game than the more generic TinierWorld counterpart, we will have the following resource types/statistic types (and perhaps additional game-specific resources for minigames)

-Psychatica 

[psychatica]

Hello everyone,

You may or may not know that I and fellow former TinierMe members have started our own virtual world social network.

It is called Psychatica, and it is growing fast. It is built on the PhoenixSNS framework that I wrote as the sole developer, with artistic content and innovative ideas contributed by a team of former TinierMe users.

One of the most notable features, the framework for avatar designs, has recently been implemented. This supports equipping Items to a particular section of the avatar (known as a Category).

In addition to that, it currently supports Groups, Topics, and Comments on those topics. It supports a framework for playing games (known as the Arcade) and exchanging Arcade Tickets for exclusive Items.

Chat in the World used to work but for some reason is now broken, we're fixing that though.

But most important of all, user registration is OPEN to EVERYONE, right now!

Join us and help rebuild our virtual world!

The links to the site and our development group on Facebook are in the signature. In order to keep building new surprises for the rest of our members, we ask that only content creators and developers apply to join the Facebook group. Best regards

-alcexhim

[psychatica]

Are you a former member of TinierMe? Do you miss TM and wish for more anime-styled socialization action? Well, look no further, as has come up with a solution for you! Presenting to you...http://psychatica.com/

a fan-made collaboration in bringing back the fun and community of TinierMe! It's currently on the small side, but with your input, you can help make it into something even greater. So join today!

[psychatica]

We now have 2000 followers (on facebook)

THANK YOU! -alcexhim

https://www.facebook.com/psychatica

[psychatica]

All right, FINALLY! E-mail verification has been disabled. We haven't had time to actually set up the new e-mail server yet anyway. Hopefully disabling the "feature" altogether will allow more people to register and experience Psychatica without any more hurdles! Of course, there still has to be a way to help ward off spammy registrations. The system already tracks the date you last logged in... As of right now, it does not do anything with this information. However, in the future we might have accounts that have been inactive for a certain period of time get deleted from the system. If we implement that feature, we will issue a clear notice on the Facebook page as well as on the site itself. Additionally, once we get the e-mail server all sorted out, we can send out an e-mail notification if your account is about to be terminated for having been abandoned for too long. Ah, it feels nice to be able to write an actual update after appearing to be inactive for so long. Hope everyone's having fun 

-alcexhim

[psychatica]

Been seeing a lot of people saying things like "this server needs improvement" and other stuff. Saying things like that won't help much. I already know there are a lot of things that need to be fixed, and I am doing my best to make it happen. What would really help is if people would be more specific as to WHAT it is they're looking for and HOW the site can be improved. And please remember that it is STILL in development. If you have any ideas for improvements or features or (best of all) things that would set us apart from other similar sites, please mention them here! The good news is, we have made significant progress on the technology behind-the-scenes, so even if you're not seeing everything at the moment, be patient; things will start appearing soon! We are currently working on revamping the side-view avatar base, which means that we'll need to re-design the items and everything before they will "look good" on the avatar. We hope you will continue to be patient as we work hard to bring you new features and improvements, and keep us informed with what works and doesn't work, and what you'd like to see in the future.

-alcexhim

[psychatica]

Hello fellow Psychaticans! I'm excited to introduce another new feature... Now, when someone adds you as a friend, accepts your friend request, or comments on one of your Journal entries, you will get a notification in the "Notifications" panel on the left side of the page ("So THAT's what that is for!!") Other modifications this week include fixes to the commenting system on the Group Topics, as well as adding comment feature to the Journal Entries. ^.~ I hope to see you all enjoying Psychatica as we continue to develop and release more great social networking features in the future!

-alcexhim