Wonderful widget! I'm really enjoying it -- put on some Blue Mars stream in the back ground and enjoying some chum travel.

I, too, would like for some simple small text to make the travel a bit less lonely. My chum gets to have all the fun!

Is "Monster" an NPC? I got a gift for apprehending a criminal -- I swear it said in my profile after that that I received it as a gift.  Later, after "Monster" visited my page, it said that the gift from the criminal was a gift from monster.  Either the game saw that the gift didn't have a giver and just took the name from the next guest or else I got the same gift twice and it just updates the source?  Or is it possible to have multiple of the same gift?

I would kinda like a setting to always seem where my Chummy is at. I know what my chummy home looks like, I would like to see other's.

Please no ambient sound, or at least an option to turn it off. My Chumby is near my bed, and I don't want to hear racket all night.

Yes - been thinking alot about sound.  And have no fear, any type of option that could be disruptive to your surroundings will always be optional.

I am assuming you have used the Chum Location Cam, which visually will show where you currently are.  Are you referring to some other type of functionality?

btw - Max's castle is awesome - I've been there

Thanks for the ideas.

When I see other chums, they some times have little emotes over their heads--which is very cool. The national flag I am assuming is their actual origin--are the other ones meaningless?  The weather, for example--does it have the ability to actually get the user weather and display based on that? If not, I wish it did, I'd be glad to input my zipcode and have it indicate my chums weather.  The ability to somehow configure/cause the other emotes would be great too--assuming they are generally at present just random.

Yes, I second the idea for some kind of ability to determine which Emotes float over my Chummy's head.  How about a check-box list of Emotes we can pick that will randomly float over our heads? Then we'd have some kind of control. I know you can't do anything too complicated, like check our weather, but some kind of personality control would be cool.

I would also like to be able to have more then one thing my Chummy would say when clicked on. How about 3 or 4 lines we can setup on the website, and whenever our Chummy is clicked on, one of those lines will be displayed. Our Chummy would be like a fortunate cookie, with lots of things to say.

I would also love to see a more complex item system, something that also allows users to make items for others. I have LOTS of ideas for crazy little items, and I'd also like to include little 64x64 pixel icons for those items. And 200+ letter descriptions for those items.

Thank you all for your input and comments.  Chumbyland is all of you, so you made it go #1, so thank you.

So first the weather feature, this would be fairly simple to implement.  Is the general consensus is that your Chum would show an icon based on the weather in your area?

Item creation - this is still hot on my list, but requires some adjustments.  Believe it or not Chumbyland is starting to get pretty deep on the "backend".

Chum Location Cam - The cam is actually the most resource and bandwidth intensive feature of Chumbyland.  So I am ramping up its use with caution.  But I hear you loud and clear.  It would be sweet to always see where you Chum is.

And the big one is the "thought" icons.  I should be rolling out a beta of a new piece of functionality called "Chumversations" soon.  It may not be the final direction, but it is an interesting "mad-lib" like concept that should be fun to try out.  It might also make you new friends without your direct interaction

---

I am open to any help on anything.  If you know PHP and mySQL type stuff, and can output an XML file, and have some information you would like added (like weather) let me know.  Artwork is something that could be helpful also.

I was also thinking of adding a "theme" type addition to the widget to allow you to pick different day/night backgrounds submitted by others.  What is the general feeling about that idea?  Yea - Nay?

See ya in Chumbyland.

Cheers.

Hi
This is a great widget, it's also amazing how much it has advanced in such a short time.
Here is a thought for the background images. Can you have a stock set of icons such as buildings, trees, clouds, etc and then we can log into the chumby website and put our own background together using the icons provided? You could also add theme type icons so you can decorate for the holidays such as Halloween.

keep up the good work.

John

Isn't editing JPEG's simpler then the making SWF? I don't have any programs to edit SWF, but I have several photo editing tools to make backgrounds. It really couldn't be easier to make a JPEG. And you can control the size of a JPEG with the compression settings. My castle images are 15k and 21k at %50 JPEG compression. You can download and edit that JPEG background off Chumbyland's website and edit it in Windows Paintbrush, if you don't have any other better photo editor.

It would be interesting though if we could use our "Gifts" for decoration. Like dropping a Tree or a Rock on the background the same way items appear now, although bigger. I suppose something that size might require Flash, since JPEG's don't have transparency and the file sizes would get large with many little objects. They could be little flash objects you can drag around with your finger in some kind of "Home Edit" mode.

That might be a bit much though? Adding a "Home Edit" mode would probably be a rather big undertaking, right?

Could we have the option to tell people what we were listening to on our Chumby?  Essentially when the widget runs, you pull music information out of the user's environment and upload it to your server.  It could show up as the "tweet" and maybe have a musical note as the icon hanging over our heads...

I've documented a lot of the environment variables here. 

wayn3w

Chumbyland 1.7

Now with Chumversations!  Give your pixel Chum a little "voice".

Chums will now engage in short Chumversations using dialog you create.

Log into the settings panel to manage your "topics".

If you don't want to see Chumversations in your Chumbyland, you can toggle it in the new "settings" area by touching the clock/logo on the main toolbar.

More "topics" will be added over time.

See ya in Chumbyland!

Cheers.

I'm assuming statements are topics you bring up and response is how your chum reacts to a given statement by another chum. . .

that said, I've yet to be able to configure it. I click and nothing happens. I've tried it in the latest version of every major browser . . . what's amiss?

Also, apostrophes used in ones description are shown escaped in the edit box after saving.