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Auckland IT scene: Virtual game, real world success

In the ultra-modern Ironbank building in Karangahape Road, business partners Mitch Olson and Darren Green are busy managing a virtual world.




Olson and Green’s (pictured above, left to right) company Outsmart launched online virtual reality gaming site SmallWorlds three years ago. The company’s growth has been exceptional. Disney came onboard as an investor but Green and Olson would not disclose to Computerworld in what capacity. Staff numbers have grown from two to 30.

SmallWorlds has signed up 6.5 million users, with around 500,000 active users every month. SmallWorlds has been growing steadily since the start and is now profitable and “making good revenue”, says Green. He is reluctant to go into further detail.

SmallWorlds’ users are 65 percent female, Olson says. They are predominantly teens, followed by “soccer mums”, says Olson.
Women tend to dominate social and casual gaming, Green says, with the average casual or social gamer being a 43-year-old female. Eighty percent of SmallWorlds players are in the US, 10 percent in the UK and the rest scattered over other mainly English speaking countries. The company plans to move into the non-English speaking market.

They are also moving into the mobile and social gaming space, with the release of new products just around the corner, Green says.

So what attracts users to SmallWorlds? Olson thinks it is a combination of the social aspect of the world and the self-expression via the avatars. Players can personalise their avatars, create a home for themselves and also engage in art and missions to further define and express themselves.

Community is a key part, with lots of social interaction, says Olson. And there are many opportunities for creativity – crafting, creating art and trading. “We have a vibrant art community in Smallworlds,” says Green. “They create and sell art to each other.”

The game is free to play but users can purchase virtual goods and currency from SmallWorlds. There is also a subscription model where users pay to be part of a ‘VIP’ club. VIP members receive “cool stuff” that allows them to tweak their avatar in different ways.

Collecting is another strong theme within the world, says Olson.

A Comprehensive Guide of Co2 and Nitrogen Paintball Tanks

While you play paintball, after selecting your security gear, gun and barrel length and adapters, you’ll want to decide if you wish to use CO2 (carbon dioxide) or Nitrogen to propel your paintballs out of your gun. 

Each methods work effectively and will probably be a matter of private choice as to which one you use. CO2 works nice and is available in tanks as small because the Java 12 ounce tank and the Pure Energy 9 ounce tank or clear up to the 20 ounce tanks. There are also CO2 cylinders that conceal inside the butt stock of your gun and to offer you an concept of how lengthy they final, a 30g cylinder will provide you with roughly 80 to one hundred rounds earlier than you will have to replace it. If you’d like essentially the most bangs on your buck and also you’re the sort that whenever you play paintball you play all day, strive the 200g CO2 paintball cylinder. This unit does not fit flush into the butt stock of your gun and will protrude a little bit however you’re going to get about 400 or so rounds fired from this little powerhouse. The usual on/off swap is located at the end of the cylinder. 

Nitrogen paintball tanks also work very well. The Bulldog Air Methods are nice tanks to make use of on your game. They’ve a variety of sizes and the built-in Bulldog III Regulators are constructed to increase your circulate fee and eradicate annoying drop off. Pure Energy has a star within the line of N2 tanks within the form of their 850 psi tank that may ship over 1000 pictures with extremely constant velocity of your paintballs so you may rely on how far they’ll go with each shot. 

There are loads of choices in tanks to your paintball gun, it’s only a matter of whether or not your favor CO2 or N2 in your game.

In general, there are three main power sources for paintball guns:

1) CO2 cartridges (disposable) 

2) CO2 tanks (re-usable) 

3) HPA tanks (re-usable)

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