You are here: Habbo Hotel also has expanded its offerings with a music tracker that users can play with and create tunes. It has a lot of complexity, but its visual style fits right into the Habbo world. "We have this incredibly talented dude back in Helsinki. It takes 30 seconds to start mixing the sounds and everybody feels like they're some kind of supercomposer," Haro noted.
For six years, the game was soundless. "We were thinking of mp3 uploads, but it would be a huge copyright nightmare and it wouldn't be the music players composed themselves... [having the music player] adds value. You have to pay 15 cents for the virtual CD to burn the music onto, the same price you'd pay in the real world. Because players are used to this in the real world, they'll pay the money."
At this point Haro showed off a user-created replica of Harry Potter's famous school Hogwarts. "Harry Potter is really big right now." As a player, though, Haro wasn't interested in this Hogwarts room because it was all Hufflepuff (one of the school's four fictional factions, habbohotel coins which is duplicated on Habbo Hotel.) So he searched for another Hogwarts that would fit his faction -- and found it.
"Spider-pig is a good example of what people think surf around and find out." Though The Simpsons is an amerian show, according to Haro, the Australian Spider-pig fan-page is better than the U.S. one. It's not just pop culture, either -- Haro pointed out an environmental group's page. "There are a lot of people expressing their values in the world."
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