welcome to the voki family!

Well hello friends!

I know it has been a while, but my oh my have we got some new and great things for all of you Voki lovers!

A PLACE FOR YOUR VOKI!
You might have noticed that we launched a brand new looking site, complete with a play area!  No no, we aren't sending you to preschool, we just thought you might want to have a little fun with your Voki, and here is an area with a little inspiration to do so!  The Voki Play area lets you show off your best Bush Impressions, rid yourself of any sins, Vent away your anger, step up to the mic, take sides in the Mac vs PC battle, and if you're feelin real randy, a place to find a date!

VOKI ARTIST SPOTLIGHT!
We are so very happy to announce that we have put up our very first Artist Spotlight.  The lovely Samantha Jade, sitting pretty in the top right corner of our homepage, is an up and coming singer songwriter who has worked with music icons, such as Whitney Houston and Timbaland! This 20 year old who hails from Perth, Australia will have you turnin' around and around with her new single, featured on our Artist Spotlight!  Stay tuned for the new and stellar artists to come!

NEW MEMBERS TO THE VOKI FAMILY!
Voki's Edgy clan is proud to introduce the newest members to their Voki family, Todd and Cheryl!  These young hipsters are complete with leather jackets, rockstar hair and even mics and guitars, so you can really get down with them - check out their family portrait below!

 

New Animated Car-bot Voki!

Hello hello!

I wanted to tell everyone about our new characters -- The J-bots.  They really are more than meets the eye...  You can find them in the "Random" section when choosing your character type.  These are a really fun new animated character -- try them out yourselves, but they sure did rev my engine...

Get a Voki now!

New Voki Players!

Hello Voki-lovers.

We have been listening to your requests and here they are, two new and simplified Voki players!  These two players were designed to allow your Voki to shine center stage!  Click play to hear how happy it's made the Voki...

Get a Voki now!

Try out the new players and keep in mind there are still more to come!

We cannot wait to see what fantastic Voki you create - get talkin'!

Hannah and Team Voki

Things we're working on...

Hi folks!

We got a nice mention on Mashable today (they said we were "smooth"), which is exciting, but there's still lots of work to be done.

So here's what we're up to:

• We're creating a plain player.  We might have been a bit overzealous on some of our player designs and while we're definitely going to keep the wild and wacky ones coming, we also recognize that sometimes, people just want a character and a background and might not want it coming out of an unzipped fly.  (I know, right?  Surprised me, too!)
• Changing some of the "Play on load" functions in MySpace.  Lot's of things start playing as soon as MySpace pages load, so we thought it would be generally ok if that's what your Voki did, too...   and if its your Voki, that's probably what you want it to do.  However, when other people leave comments on your page with a Voki, you probably don't want all that chatter going on while you're trying to introduce your page.  So, we're going to set them all to "play on click" and then you can change it when you embed your own.
• Quieting down the site itself.  When you're creating and managing your own Voki, and you've been through the site for the millionth time, you probably don't need it telling you to "Get started on changing my look and adding your voice by just following our four easy steps."   We're not sure how many times that should load, but clearly after you've heard it a few times, you get it.

Any other suggestions?

Shhhh... don't tell anyone yet...

We don't know how you got in here, but, well, you're here, so I guess you might as well make an account and get your Voki on.   

Voki is BRAND NEW, so there are a few things we aren't quite finished with yet, so bear with us.

Look for improvements and changes in the following areas:

• Interchangeable characters and accessories: Right now, each of our characters only has a few hairs and not all of the clothing works with all of the characters.  We're working hard to fix this so that you can make more variations of characters.
• New clothes: - We've got a shipment of virtual clothing coming in... all brand name stuff.  Ok, so it's not really brand name, and we actually bought it off a virtual truck in Second Life, but who's going to know the difference, really?
• Random little bugs in the editor: Sometimes, your character might not display in the right place in the editor when you try to edit your Voki scene.  We're aware of this and we're laying the smackdown on it, not to worry.

There may be a few other bugs here and there and we've been working hard to fix them, so just be patient.  In the meantime, if you've created a fantastic Voki and would like to be featured on our site, just e-mail talkback@accounts.voki.com with the e-mail address of your account and the name of the scene.

Thanks for checking out Voki!