Avatars United

We are proud to announce big changes ahead on Avatars United (AU) !

During the past months we’ve been hiding away in Sweden’s snow covered forests working on bringing you guys a set of improvements that we believe will radically change the way we all will be able to use AU. In addition to that, we’ve created this blog in order to give you all the opportunity to follow our progress in terms of ideas and actual development. Indeed we felt that we owed it to you all out there supporting us! Thank you for all the support throughout 2008 it kept us going and motivated us throughout the year.

So what type of changes are we talking about? Well, since mid 2008, we have been working on a set of APIs, a platform similar to what Facebook offers, with tools and resources that allow developers to build social applications on top of Avatars United. These applications can either be used privately or in collaboration with other avatars, which means you will be able to install all kinds of tools onto your profile pages. For virtual worlds with API:s such as EVE, WoW and SL (for instance) that means that all kinds of cool stuff can theoretically be built. Concerning the changes ahead, rest assured that none of these changes will affect what can be considered as AUs core in terms of functionality today. Changes to be expected will however have numerous implications in terms user interface and will furthermore allow for completely new ways to use AU.

We will be updating this blog regularly with more news and thoughts on upcoming AU features. If you are hungry for more info us and the underlying concepts for AU go ahead and read the Enemy Unknown company blog over here. We are also giving our avatars with stars the opportunity to get a sneak peak on the upcoming changes, so if you’re of them send us an email here. If instead you want to get an early access developer account send us an email to developers@avatarsunited.com and tells us about your ideas and we might let you in .

Cheers