I am writing my own speculative post here! Must be GM - Neverender’s influence rubbing off of me :P Muahahaha…

Anyway, according to the official blogpost on HKO Hompy System, the “Hompy” is the term we use for the interior of the house in the game Hello Kitty Online. You can decorate it with furniture and stuff to make it nice and homey. The blog says that in future versions of the game we can even interact with the different hompy items.

On the HKO site’s FAQ page, it is also said that “HKO has a number of social features built directly into the game system, including a hompy (mini homepage) system.”

In closed beta, we had limited items to decorate the hompy with and most of those were not interactive. I was not even aware that the hompy could possibly function as… a mini homepage? That is starting to sound like Cyworld Korea to me :P

Another interesting titbit that I got from Part 2 of the Tenton hamster interview with Ali Aslanbaigi, the Games Master Manager is that “from Sanriotown you can monitor your HKO player status and avatar, your pet’s status and avatar, your buddy list, and the number of people currently playing on your HKO server”.

Now I am really interested to see how all these features will eventually work together to form one integrated system that Hello Kitty Online and SanrioTown could possibly evolve into. And I’m also waiting to see if the “mini homepage” (if it really is going to exist) will integrate with our SanrioTown blogs.

Meanwhile check out my temporary webpage hompy ala Cyworld style :P. I decided to create one because Dawn LaRee gave me an ice-cream and I want to store it somewhere nice! I said temporary because I will probably update again when I get a real hompy on HKO. Hee ^^

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