{"id":655,"date":"2011-10-11T01:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T01:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/10\/glitch-where-webkinz-meets-dr-seuss-in-the-shire.html"},"modified":"2011-10-11T01:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-11T01:45:00","slug":"glitch-where-webkinz-meets-dr-seuss-in-the-shire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2011\/10\/glitch-where-webkinz-meets-dr-seuss-in-the-shire\/","title":{"rendered":"Glitch: Where Webkinz Meets Dr. Seuss in The Shire!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The GeekMoms drew me into this new world of video gaming: the MMORPG.<\/p>\n

“The WHAT?”<\/p>\n

I know, many of my readers (hi Mom and Dad!) may not have heard that term, so allow me to educate you.  MMORPG = Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A couple fellow GeekMoms got to be alpha- and beta-testers for this new game called Glitch<\/a>.  It went public on September 27th, and is amazingly addictive!  If you know a player, you can get in pretty quickly, but if not, it’s about a 48-hour wait for the official invitation once you give them your e-mail address.<\/p>\n

Once you’re in, you choose your avatar, undergo a little keyboard\/mouse-ology on how to navigate the Glitch-world, and then you’re set out into the wild.<\/p>\n

Like Webkinz<\/a>, you’re responsible for the care and feeding of your avatar (grow\/buy food, earn money, make a living, get educated, get a house, etc.), and the visuals are similar to an elaborate Dr. Seuss novel!<\/p>\n

I set up two accounts, one is my own avatar, and the other is one that the boys can use (I control the login and password, of course!) <\/p>\n

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Here’s my Glitch window from this morning.  Impressive that this is all web-based, so I can play from anywhere (dangerous!).  I’m standing in the center of the space, with my dusty-rose colored hair and all.  My name is “Scruffette” (Jacob’s idea), and you can see here that I’m chatting with fellow GeekMom “ChaosMandy” in a window on the right.  she was giving me some help with how to earn enough money to buy a house.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Check out GeekMom Lissa’s review of the game<\/a>, she was a beta-tester and is now on level 10,000 or something like that now….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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