First of all, thank you to everyone who has shown interest in our latest event Designer Depot, where guilds can design their own hats and shirts, and have them as in-game items for the price of in-game cash. Please see the specific mechanics for the Hat Version by clicking here, and the mechanics of the Shirt Version by clicking here.

Now, we would like to post the following details, reminders, terms and conditions for our participants:

1. We do not require our guilds to submit any specific designs yet. All we require at this stage is the number of colors you will be using for your shirt and hat. This allows you to gather payment and finalize your order even if you have not yet finalized your design.
2. Aside from the colors of your shirt (sleeves, stripes, etc), the colors of your design, including outlines, count as colors that you will have to pay for (as defined in the individual mechanics). You may base your orders on a preexisting design you have, or you may also order for a few colors and then work with what you’ve ordered if you have yet to come up with a design.
3. Please do not use any Sanrio characters in  your design, or any other copyrighted characters. Following this ensures that your design pushes through.
4. You may not use obscene/offensive language and images in your designs.
5. Avoid small fonts and complicated designs. Remember, these shirts are going to be worn by your avatars. Small fonts or complicated designs might make the shirt unrecognizable due to the shirt’s small size in-game.
6. You must make your orders as replies on the following Forum Posts:
   1. Hat Version Orders
   2. Shirt Version Orders
7. Sanrio Digital reserves the right to refuse submissions based on its own discretion.

Thank you very much, and we wish you luck in this event! If you have any concerns or questions, feel free to email us at onlinegame@hellokitty.com. Have fun!

Ever wanted to leave your mark on a persistent game world? You walk around the game world and say “Hey, I did that!” Now is your chance! Now, now… this event is for the guilds. So, if you’re not in one, band up with a couple of guildless adventure because this sure is worth it!

You have less than 24 hours to come up with ideas for a design for your own guild hat! Awesome huh? The costs for each shirt will depend on the number of colors of your design. Here are the mechanics:

1. Fabric: 400 gold
2. Base shirt color: 250 gold
3. Additional colors: If you want to add more colors, the cost goes up exponentially:
   • 1st color: 500 gold
   • 2nd color: 1000 gold
   • 3rd color: 2000 gold
   • 4th color: 4000 gold
   • … You get the idea
4. Design: 750 gold (if you’re going for a more elaborate design)
5. Labor Cost: 150 gold
6. Vat: 10%

This cost is per hat. If your guild has 200 players, and all of them wants a hat, they have to pony up the money

It can get pretty complicated so here’s a scenario for you guys:

Let’s say “The Tour Bus” guild, which has 10 members, wants to make a hat shirt with a flaming school bus on it, the price breakdown would be:

1. Fabric: 400 gold
2. Base shirt color: 250 gold (Red)
3. 3 additional colors: 500 + 1,000 + 2,000 = 3,500 gold (Orange, Yellow and Black)
4. Design: 750 gold (since we’re using a silkscreen to actually put a design on the shirt)
5. Labor Cost: 150 gold
6. Gross Cost: 5,050 gold
7. VAT: 505 gold
8. Cost per shirt: 5,555 gold
9. Total cost for the guild: 5,555 x 10 = 55,550

Here’s a simpler scenario wherein you don’t use a design:

1. Fabric: 400 gold
2. Base shirt color: 250 gold (Blue)
3. 2 additional colors: 500 + 1000 = 1,500 gold (Black, White)
4. Labor Cost: 150 gold
5. Gross Cost: 2,300 gold
6. VAT: 230 gold
7. Cost per shirt: 2,530 gold
8. Total cost for the guild: 2,530 x 10 = 25,300

Guild leaders/representatives and will be responsible for collecting payments from members. GMs will start collecting on 9PM EST on Dec. 22, ‘08.

Wait for an upcoming announcement regarding the submission of designs per guild. Alright, guilds, pool your creative juices together and start crankin’!

Ever wanted to leave your mark on a persistent game world? You walk around the game world and say "Hey, I did that!" Now is your chance! Now, now… this event is for the guilds. So, if you’re not in one, band up with a couple of guildless adventure because this sure is worth it!

You have less than 24 hours to come up with ideas for a design for your own guild shirt! Awesome huh? The costs for each shirt will depend on the number of colors of your design. Here are the mechanics:

1. Fabric: 800 gold
2. Base shirt color: 500 gold
3. Additional colors: If you want to add more colors, the cost goes up exponentially:
   • 1st color: 1000 gold
   • 2nd color: 2000 gold
   • 3rd color: 4000 gold
   • 4th color: 8000 gold
   • … You get the idea
4. Design: 1500 gold (if you’re going for a more elaborate design)
5. Labor Cost: 250 gold
6. Vat: 10%

This cost is per shirt. If your guild has 200 players, and all of them wants a shirt, they have to pony up the money.

Here’s a picture to show what exactly we mean by colors and designs. Please note however, that for the actual guild shirts, we will only be using one shirt style, and that is a short-sleeved, round neck, basic length tee like the one in the first picture below.

It can get pretty complicated so here’s a scenario for you guys:

Let’s say "The Tour Bus" guild, which has 10 members, wants to make a guild shirt with a flaming school bus on it, the price breakdown would be:

• Fabric: 800 gold
• Base shirt color: 500 gold (Red)
• 3 additional colors: 1ooo + 2000 + 4000 = 7000 gold (Orange, Yellow and Black)
• Design: 1500 gold
• Labor Cost: 250 gold
• Gross Cost: 10,050 gold
• VAT: 1005 gold
• Cost per shirt:  11,055 gold
• Total cost for the guild: 11,055 x 10 = 110,550

Here’s a simpler scenario wherein you don’t use a design:

• Fabric: 800 gold
• Base shirt color: 500 gold (Blue)
• 2 additional colors: 1000 + 2000 = 3000 gold (Black, White)
• Labor Cost: 250 gold
• Gross Cost: 4,550 gold
• VAT: 455 gold
• Cost per shirt:  5,005 gold
• Total cost for the guild: 5,005 x 10 = 50,050

Guild leaders/representatives and will be responsible for collecting payments from members. GMs will start collecting from them on 9PM EST on Dec. 22, ‘08.

Wait for an upcoming announcement regarding the submission of designs per guild. Alright, guilds, pool your creative juices together and start crankin’!

So, do you have your eyes on any of the giveaways for Christmas Reunion? Just want something to remember this special gathering by? If you’re a Founder just raring to join in the fun of this Christmas event, then this event is for you! Be one of the first to finish our main quest and you will receive the Christmas-themed Sanrio products!

Here’s how to join once you’re in the game:

1. Finish the main quest “Saving Christmas“
2. Equip the quest reward item “The Spirit of Christmas“
3. Take a screenshot (press F11) with your character info page open, and a tooltip over The Spirit of Christmas (see screenshot below):
   
4. Send the screenshot to hkoevent{at}hellokitty.com with the subject “HKO Christmas Event“
5. Only the first five (5) people to send their screenshots will be chosen as winners.

So get ready, the Christmas Reunion is right around the corner! Santa needs your help, so be quick and good luck to all of you!

‘Tis the season of giving and we here at HKO are feeling even more generous than usual. As you may or may not have heard, we are having a Christmas Reunion soon. You will find yourselves back in Sanrio Land righting yet another wrong inflicted upon the land’s hapless denizens: Monsters have found their way into Santa’s workshop and caused a whole lot of trouble! Christmas seems to be lost forever… unless you, the brave traveler from another land, snatch it from the jaws of hopelessness and return it to the people.

The first five of the quickest, wittiest and (most of all) bravest adventurers to put Christmas back on track will be rewarded with Christmas cheer and of course, loot.

What is Christmas without a Hello Kitty Mug put your yummy holiday drink in?

Heaven forbid you put your beauty items in anything but a Hello Kitty Cosmetic Pouch.

These Hello Kitty/Mimmy Plush Toys will impress even the hardiest monster especially when their adorable cheeks light up in unison. A must have.

Chronicle your adventures in this Hello Kitty Notebook. The stickers are… well… who doesn’t like stickers anyway?

Flesh out your loot with these assorted Hello Kitty Goodies.

What are you waiting for? Pop the cookies in the oven, stock up on sticky tape, and don your favorite sweater as Hello Kitty Online Christmas Reunion draws ever so close! Stay tuned for more detailed instructions!

As promised, we would like to share these scanned images of the receipts issued last November 27, 2008 for the donations which you helped to raise during our in-game charity event Food for Friends. Please click on the images to see them full-size.

None of this would have been possible without your dedication to the cause, so once again we thank all of those who participated. We hope that through this post, you can be assured that your hard work for this event has touched the lives of those in need. See you in our next event!

The dust has finally settled and, surprisingly, FOUR survivors have emerged! What? Four? I thought there would only be THREE winners for Frightspinners?! Fate, it seems, has thrown us a curve ball. Here are the results:

And for the more dessert-oriented crowd, here’s a pie chart:

And this is what they will get:

Our first place winner, Chickling, gets:

1 HKO Box Set that contains:

• DVD with the current client
• Game Manual
• Booklet containing concept art

1 Little Twin Stars Small Bag
1 My Melody Handkerchief
1 Little Twin Stars Mirror
1 Hello Kitty Special Edition USB

Ripplecloud, our second place winner, will receive:

1 HKO Box Set that contains:

• DVD with the current client
• Game Manual
• Booklet containing concept art

1 Hello Kitty Booklet
1 Hello Kitty Special Edition USB

and lastly, Tidesong and Shadow will receive the third prize:

1 HKO Box Set that contains:

• DVD with the current client
• Game Manual
• Booklet containing concept art

1 Hello Kitty Special Edition USB

To the winners, keep an eye out for an email in your Sanriotown emails. They should be there any time soon.

Once again, congratulations!

Okay, weavers of plight and scaremongers! The HKO team needs your support once again: We have chosen ten finalists for Frightspinners and it’s up to you to determine the top 3! Voting ends on November 24, 2008 23:59 EST.

In no particular order, here are your finalists:

Chickling - Trick or Treat

Shadow - The Cult of Dagon

sonik -  Psycho Hunter

Sundaygirl - SCARY

Bellkana - Horror House

Arisu - The Curse of the Barren Field Rose

Sugar_chan - The HKO Files

Popuri - An Unknown World

Tidesong - The Spooky Tree Wishes

ripplecloud - The Witch

Scroll down to cast your votes!

Now, it’s time to announce the biggest givers in our very special charity event! We know that many of you already know what the standings are, but we would like to formally recognize our top 4 guilds, and all guilds who have worked hard to contribute to this cause. So here they are, without further ado!

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

Twin Starrs
Tiger Melody
Super Cute
Pirate Guild
MAIcroSTYLE
I ❤ Hello Kitty
Charmmy Kitties
(o’:'o)
Mean Girls
Bad Lad Gang
Moonlight Blessing

And a special thanks to guild Tokidoki for their contribution, even if they were not registered for the event. The exact figures for each guild are posted on the SanrioTown forums.

We congratulate all of you for a wonderful job, and we thank you yet again for your selfless contributions! We hope that this is one memory of Founders’ Beta that remains with you until the next time we see each other in-game!

Wow… it’s been an amazing month: friendships blossomed, guilds established, crops harvested, heck, even rivalries were formed.

Founders’ Beta has been an AMAZING experience for aaaaaalll of us and we’d like to thank all of the people who have participated in it.

Now, the wait begins for… Open Beta.

HOWEVER…

we will be having SOMETHING before Open Beta so it’d be awesome if  you guys KEEP THE CLIENT!