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Avaloop is seeking first round funding for Papermint, a virtual world game. Papermint is a game which thousands of people all over the world can play at the same time. Choose your game character and start your new life in a vast, colourful world.

Key concepts of Papermint

Papermint’s metagame, “Capture the Social Flag!”, features cooperation instead of dominance, a visualisation of the avatars’ souls, the establishment of powerful family bonds, and the protection of community resources.

• Papermint gives its “gaming residents” a reason to come back: players can establish social networks, become designers and take up a profession, explore, have fun, and live a socially rewarding life.
• Papermint is safe and easy: the game is based on a multi-access approach for a broad target group.
• Papermint represents the culmination of 3.5 years of conceptual design and 1 year of coding. The game is currently in its beta stage (the German version has been in operation in Austria since March 2007).
• Real user feedback is incorporated directly into the development of Papermint.
• Papermint currently exists as a downloadable Java client for the PC. A new release is made available to the public every month. Mac and mobile versions are in development.
• Papermint’s external artist program ensures that the game’s mini-communities have authentic and emotionally engaging places at their disposal where players can feel at home.
• Papermint feels real instead of looking realistic: the distinctive style of its graphics makes it unique and recognisable.
• Papermint is based on micro-transactions: players can customise and personalise their avatars by buying items, renting and furnishing flats, pursuing professions, and streaming media.
• Papermint offers non-intrusive in-game advertising opportunities, tracks data without the need for surveys and links advertising to gameplay sensibly.

If you are interested contact them at avaloop.com