I remember the hype over Club Tropica..... what ever happened to it? I tried to visit their webpage and I just got site under construction.
It was never finished was it? and then they abandoned the idea and made it like a social networking thing?
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I remember the hype over Club Tropica..... what ever happened to it? I tried to visit their webpage and I just got site under construction.
It was never finished was it? and then they abandoned the idea and made it like a social networking thing?
Not ever sure who owned it but Just-one from here was a director
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Did Callie even work on it?
didn't helkat join that too?
Loads of ex-staff worked there
I'm sure James (Dionysus) was running it towards the end
What? Dionysus only left Sulake recently (like last December?) and he isn't called James...Quote:
Originally Posted by j0rd
Well whoever James was on Habbo, he was ex-staff thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by Kardan
I remember James that ran ClubTropica, but wasn't that Just-One? He wasn't staff?Quote:
Originally Posted by j0rd
Disarno? That was him wasn't it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kardan
Disarno went to CT... I had to check though, since I thought Disarno left way after CT opened, but turns out he left 6 years ago. How time flies. I haven't got a clue if he was called James :PQuote:
Originally Posted by j0rd
If it actually became a virtual world, like was once planned, it would have been absolutely fantastic. I think they were far too ambitious, and announced things that simply were not happening.
To be honest by the looks of the Google Searches I did - I don't think it had that much success or any at all. Although I did find a thread on WebHostingTalk about job offers for it with one of the directors being called:
I then decided to search the company on CompanyHouse to see if it brings up anything which brought up:Quote:
James ***
IT Director
ClubTropica UK Ltd
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Name & Registered Office:
CLUBTROPICA UK LTD
UNIT 10 ELM HOUSE WILLOWBANK
CLAYGATE LANE
THAMES DITTON
SURREY
KT7 0LE
Company No. 06452202
This James *** person has this on his LinkedIn about ClubTropica:Quote:
Status: Dissolved 27/07/2010
Date of Incorporation: 12/12/2007
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Lead Developer
ClubTropica UK Ltd
November 2007 – February 2009 (1 year 4 months)
ClubTropica envisions becoming the next habbo crossed with Facebook aimed at older teenagers. I was project managing the development of the Shockwave Client element, the backend server development, and the front end website development. I was also highly involved in the custom PHP CMS development. The website is based off PHP and MySQL engines using a CMS platform I created from scratch, and currently has 15,000 members. I also developed a multi-threaded socket server for the shockwave client using PHPCLI using OO PHP, which was exciting for me as it was a first for me to use PHP to develop something that Java would usually take the place of.
The LinkedIn description is rather amusing, baring in mind that everything he apparently did has come to... nothing.Quote:
Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx
Interesting to see the company was dissolved 3 years ago, as well.
Yeah, by the looks of it James is the also the person who is most likely keeping the domain/site as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Marketing
It was run by ione or was that medi-kidz? oh yeah it was. god I remember the huge hype over club tropica which I think Callie went to lol but it was a flop n they didn't make a clientQuote:
Originally Posted by Kardan
Ione was long gone before any of this. You might be thinking of Becs who did Moshi Monsters.Quote:
Originally Posted by £lliott
whenever i seen that name, i was reminded of a drink.
James *** is @Just-One; And how can you not be reminded of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYX0sjP6Za8
Noo ione did medikidz definitely because I remember she wrote on my guestbook when we had it saying she was trying to contact me about it, but callie did club tropica yeah
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Originally Posted by Kardan
Would make sense, he's also been part of the police force as well then! :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Kardan
Status: Dissolved 27/07/2010
Aww that's a shame. It's cool to know. I'm surprised we never found about this sooner.. 3 years on :P It was a shame they never released the client but I agree with Marketing.. they were promising things that simply weren't happening
Was there ever any decent concept art for this site, was it isometric etc? Very slim pickings online.
There used to be a reasonable amount of screenshots, but I guess years of not being wanted pushes them down the google image search rankings...Quote:
Originally Posted by HOSKO02
were you a tester for that too?Quote:
Originally Posted by £lliott
The pictures for it looked really good
Yeah it's been very different for a while, scrolling now renders you into unrelated territory a lot quicker then it used to, maybe they're lost!Quote:
Originally Posted by Marketing
Yeah, kind of but I don't remember doing muchQuote:
Originally Posted by dbgtz
So they've gone for good, wonder how many people bought credits on it :oQuote:
We'll be right back
ClubTropica is currently down whilst we improve our services; we plan to be online very soon!
Thank you for your patience.
I would say that message on the site has been up for a good few years now.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoldenMerc
Really? Im sure I looked at it not that long ago, prob 3+ months ago? maybe Im wrong then hahaQuote:
Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx
can anyone post screenshots if possible?
I thought this, but after using waybackmachine, it would appear it has been like that since at least around July 2012.Quote:
Originally Posted by GoldenMerc
Unfortunately, it would appear all of the images on the website back then are broken :(
- - - Updated - - -
Whilst I cannot verify them, these are supposedly club tropica images.
http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r...lubTropica.png
Just found this as well...
http://youtu.be/LCwj1oeXnQs
Look snazzy.. oh sweet jesus :LQuote:
Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx
That appears to be post-client days
Also, wasn't there a forum with all of these type of start-ups on? I remember seeing a forum where a number of virtual worlds were in development stages and all had their own section to keep up-to-date on their progress. That has probably long gone now but does anyone remember the name of it?
No idea what this site even is
Was meant to be the next Habbo hotel...
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*throws up* I can see why they didn't succeed.Quote:
I also developed a multi-threaded socket server for the shockwave client using PHPCLI using OO PHP
Their failure was being 7 years too late!Quote:
Originally Posted by GoldenMerc
In regards of the above, I believe I have found the place that I was thinking of: http://mmoccforum.comQuote:
Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx
Does anyone remember JabbaTown as well?