ChatVille: Chatroulette meets Facebook

Posted by Jesse Wilson in Tips & Tricks on 05 20th, 2010 | 2 responses

Today when I opened my favorite instant messaging client, Digsby greeted me with an announcement: “We’re excited to announce the launch of ChatVille, a brand new Facebook game we created for discovering cool new people! ChatVille let’s [sic] you video chat with random Facebook users in a safe environment while earning compliments, unlocking badges, and leveling up in a race to become ChatVille Champion! http://bit.ly/ChatVille_Release PS: First one to unlock the Digsby Badge gets a free iPad!”

Naturally I tried it and quickly discovered a lot of bugs. Most of the time I click Next I get an error message: “Everyone is engaged in conversation. Chat with one of your Facebook Friends or click Next to try again.” That’s not fun! The only 10 people I’ve been able to connect to so far were all men. That’s also no fun, but not unexpected. I couldn’t figure out exactly how to improve my score and couldn’t find a guide anywhere.

Soon Adobe Flash Player began to crash my web browsers. All 3 of them. This problem persisted after uninstalling and reinstalling Flash Player and rebooting my PC. Now I can’t play the game at all because Flash Player crashes the browser immediately when the game loads, while Chatroulette still works just fine.

If this game worked, it could be the solution to the booming industry’s pervert infestation. Inappropriate conduct can get Facebook users banned from ChatVille quickly and permanently. But could this be enough of a difference from Chatroulette to achieve a lower male-to-female ratio than CR’s 9-to-1?

Try it yourself: http://apps.facebook.com/chatville/

http://fbchatroulette.net Facebook Social Chat Roulette

We believe that simplicity and excitement of meeting random people is key of chatroulette success. However there is a problem that chatroulette has too much of wierd things – it stopped being about chat.
We the above in mind, we built http://fbchatroulette.net – Facebook Chatroulette. Our idea is to integrate Chatroulette with Facebook and game similar to Foursquare. We hope that our approach does not make thing more complicated than they are (which is problem with other chatroulette clones). It is still a roulette – you don’t to which part world are going to visit.
More on our blog:
http://fbchatroulette.tumblr.com/post/633513072…
http://www.facebook.com/sayhello.me Say Hello

Visit the new http://www.sayhello.me. On Sayhello, you meet real people, and sayhello provides the ability for you to stay in touch with your new friend. As opposed to fbchatroulette or chatroulette, on Sayhello, you meet someone new, and you can stay in touch. No more missed connections. No more goodbyes. We hope the new Sayhello will provide a good environment that helps you foster new and long term relationships. Sayhello is also integrated with facebook, so chats are not completely anonymous, and we hope this will help dissuade unwelcome behavior, as seen in chatroulette. Sayhello – discover new people.