Hello Kitty In Build-A-Bearville

June 3rd, 2008

After taking Leilani, my Tropical Hello Kitty home, I decided to check out the Build-A-Bear site. They built a social network around these bears. So I signed up to check it out. Below is a screen shot of my character and Leilani… I am not that brown (at least I don’t think) but it was the closest skintone to mine available. And yes, my character is wearing a Hello Kitty t-shirt.

Build-A-Bearville Screen Shot

You get your own home and money to furnish your home. I bought a Hello Kitty table and chairs of course. There is one more Hello Kitty chair that I need to complete Leilani’s room. I only have one wall with Hello Kitty wallpaper because both walls looks really busy.

Build-A-Bearville Screen Shot

Look at Leilani taking a nap, hehe…

Build-A-Bearville Screen Shot

The Build-A-Bearville was pretty fun. The interface is cute and functional… Definitely intuitive — there were a lot of tutorials and everything was explained clearly. It reminds me of Club Penguin. Of course, these sites are not really targeted toward myself, so what I think is functional and great design might be completely off target with the intended audience.

Related posts:  HKO CB Testing Part 2My Hula Hello KittyTropical Hello Kitty From Build-A-Bear

HKO CB Testing Part 5

May 30th, 2008

Ok… I think I am almost finished playing HKO CB… Unless they extend it again with more in game contests or quests. I got to do all the things I wanted to do (like get the Southern Enthusiasm farm) so I am pretty happy. Screen shot from my final days in my Japanese style farm…

HKO CB Screen Shot of My Japanese Style Farm

Hooray for new seeds to plant! Green pepper, orange, papaya, pineapple and pumpkin seeds were introduced into the closed beta as well as two new quests. I am such a dumb-dumb though… I completed the two quests and I got a chance to have a pet dinosaur. I accidently discarded the card. There were other players walking around Florapolis with a big pet dinosaur (bigger than the person) following them around… It was was so silly and so cute. Here is a progression of my new farm, which ended up turning into some what of a jungle…

HKO CB Screen Shot of My Southern Enthusiasm Farm

HKO CB Screen Shot of My Southern Enthusiasm Farm

Some of the new seeds took their sweet time to grow…

HKO CB Screen Shot of My Southern Enthusiasm Farm

Not to mention a lot of fertilizer…

HKO CB Screen Shot of My Southern Enthusiasm Farm

Finally, some pumpkins…

HKO CB Screen Shot of My Southern Enthusiasm Farm

HKO CB Screen Shot of My Southern Enthusiasm Farm

I must not know how to farm correctly because I always got informed that I grew my crops grew unevenly (that was not the exact phrase… I cannot remember right now)…

HKO CB Screen Shot of My Southern Enthusiasm Farm

Strawberries and watermelon were the easiest to farm… The veggies on the bottom are green peppers…

HKO CB Screen Shot of My Southern Enthusiasm Farm

Pineapples were moderately easy to grow as well…

HKO CB Screen Shot of My Southern Enthusiasm Farm

My farm started looking more like a jungle…

HKO CB Screen Shot of My Southern Enthusiasm Farm

The yellow fruits on the trees are papayas… The big trees grew oranges. For me, those two trees took the longest time to harvest (besides strange wood)…

HKO CB Screen Shot of My Southern Enthusiasm Farm

And then some of my crops started to go rotten…

HKO CB Screen Shot of My Southern Enthusiasm Farm

Still Playing HKO

May 21st, 2008

Just when I thought I was pretty much finished with playing HKO, they go and make a contest with Hello Kitty goodies as prizes! Which means I will still be playing today, tomorrow, the day after and another day after… Or until I farm and hunt the things I need to in order to win some Hello Kitty goodies.

HKO CB Testing Part 4

May 7th, 2008

The HKO CB was supposed to end on May 6, but it got extended until May 25. How awesome is that?

And there is even a Hello Kitty Online Trailer Contest going on!

HKO CB Testing Part 3

May 1st, 2008

Below is a screenshot of the farm I want to purchase next… But look at that price! Ouch! That is a lot of farming I am about to do.

HKO Farm Shop Southern Enthusiasm

Here is what the farm looks like (I went into Cloud’s farm):

HKO Southern Enthusiasm Farm

I also like the Japanese Style Garden:

HKO Japanese Style Farm

Various screenshots of Florapolis that I just adore (click for full-size image):

HKO Dear Daniel 
HKO Pinkuruchan\'s House HKO Pinkuruchan\'s House
HKO Secret House HKO Kuririn\'s House
HKO Sakura Inside Kuririn\'s House HKO Kuririn\'s Cafe
HKO Kuririn\'s Cafe HKO Farm Entrance
HKO Purin\'s Cafe HKO Purin\'s Cafe With Melody\'s Papa and Purin\'s Papa
HKO Purin\'s Cafe With Melody\'s Mama and Purin\'s Mama HKO Landry
HKO Purin\'s House HKO Purin\'s House
HKO Purin\'s House HKO Sora

And some more screenshots of Sanrio Harbour:

HKO Sanrio Harbour HKO Sanrio Harbour
HKO Sanrio Harbour HKO Sanrio Harbour
HKO Mimmy HKO Sanrio Harbour