Sharing some of our thoughts

Prompted by two posts on the Twinity Monitor about the demise of There.com and asking about the Therians, I wanted to share some of our plans for Twinity.

Twinity downtime: Today from 10:30 (CET) for at least 3 hours

Hi Twinizens, We’ll have a major update of Twinity today and expect a downtime of at least 3 hours starting at 10:30 CET. Expect some cool new features to come. We’ll post the release notes here in the blog. Stay tuned. Your Twinity Team

twinity.com issues

Twinizens, Probably a lot of you have noticed that some things on www.twinity.com aren’t working properly at the moment. We ran into a few unexpected problems when we upgraded Rails. We’ve been working hard on fixing all the issues, and most should be done by end of week.

Twinity’s All-New Female Avatars

You may have noticed that Twinity’s female avatars were ready for a makeover. So as of today, please welcome Twinity’s new female avatars! Your new female avatar is visible when you log in to Twinity. We have remodeled her entire body, giving her a more oval face, a more elegant neck and shoulders, and much more female body proportions. Her …

News from the Development Department

Last week we were fully focused on improving our crash rate, a new engine core version is currently in testing that will fix a number of crashes. We still do not understand the reason for all of the crashes and freezes, but we look at every single crash-dump you send us to get to the bottom of the problems. Next …

News from the Development Department

Spring is finally with us, and with the changing seasons come great changes in Twinity. There are more fun new features coming up in the next few weeks than the Easter bunny could carry in a single basket … unless we’re talking about some kind of super-strong, mutant rabbit, of course. Or maybe even a robot rabbit. Before offering glowing …

News from the Development Department

The release last week brought some nice new features and improvements which are listed: here. Unfortunately, it also came with some instabilities like patch-problems, client-freezes, connectivity issues and problems with place access management. We hope to have fixed most of these with the hot-fix patch today. Next week we plan to release a new version of our rendering engine. It …

News from the Development Department

We are currently preparing the next release, which will bring some nice improvements like simplified private chat, additional outdoor spawn-points for better city navigation, improved voice chat reliability and better handling of large friend-lists. We target next Tuesday as release date. Meanwhile we follow our new strategy to push out improvements and bug-fixes in-between releases. To avoid client freezes we …

News from the development department

Twinity is still in beta and we thus still need to improve many things. We got comments from members who want to learn more about what is going on behind the scenes. That’s why we are happy to introduce a new section in our newsletter with updates about the Twinity development progress. I will post the same text here on …