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Dubit http://www.dubit.co.uk (design offline)

Category:
Society & Culture

Created by:
Lightmaker.com in 2001

See also:
Rating:
6.0 (16 votes)

Date added:
Oct 7th, 2001

Last updated:
Sep 5th, 2003

Our comments:
Dubit is an on-line community for young adults to meet and share their interests in live chats. Dubit, unlike Habbo Hotel, a similar chat web site, uses vector graphics to create its isometric environments. Since vectors can be easily scaled without loss of detail, Dubit can nicely fit to any-size browser window. However Dubit's vector graphics, although high quality, looks blurred and pale even in high resolutions as large as 1280x1024. You need to use the Flash player's built-in zoom function to see the real level of detail.

Habbo Hotel restricts you to a hotel (hence the name), and walking from one room to another is not always possible; you must use the "Hotel Navigator" menu to go to a particular room. In Dubit however you can freely wander around Dubit city. There is even a real-time daylight setting. Animations are also smoother as compared to Habbo.

In the final analysis, Dubit is an impressive on-line chat environment that deserves a lot of attention however it lacks the warm atmosphere of Habbo mainly because of its relatively flat vector graphics with little lighting effects, and gloomy color scheme.

100% Flash.

--Aycan

Steve (2) - Mar 12th, 2003 Presentation  7 Graphics  8 Usability  3 Technical  3 Personal Slant  6 Overall 5.4 I think dubit is a great chat site. The only problems I found were, navigating rooms, glitches when moving, and the rooms were too small. Overall it's a great site to chat. LeedsLad (2) - Mar 7th, 2003 Presentation  7 Graphics  7 Usability  7 Technical  6 Personal Slant  8 Overall 7.0 Ok the site that you were reviewing her had a few bugs. However, dubit have now got s new site out - much brighter, better characters - i recommened you take a look chubness (16) - Jun 3rd, 2002 Presentation  8 Graphics  8 Usability  3 Technical  3 Personal Slant  7 Overall 5.8 If you have grown up on habbo hotel DON'T GO HERE. The graphics are ok but it is really hard to see..and no one is ever on it. I couldn't find anyone to chat with but it worked really well. It was a bit faster than habbo but the quality wasn't as good....and I got lost really fast. I also had to zoom in to see who I was...so Aol people (it doesn't work to well on aol). Shearra (4) - Jun 2nd, 2002 Presentation  5 Graphics  8 Usability  5 Technical  7 Personal Slant  3 Overall 5.6 Well.. It's an awesome chat.. but would be way better if it was readable I had to set my computer to 1280 by 1024 just to read it. I don't really like the characters that you chat with and some of the graphics and things don't look so great together. samktheman (27) - Feb 24th, 2002 Presentation  1 Graphics  5 Usability  1 Technical  4 Personal Slant  1 Overall 2.4 I couldn't read the status thing. Alot of the text was unreadable. Other than that, cool. Sakura_kari (11) - Dec 23rd, 2001 Presentation  3 Graphics  4 Usability  3 Technical  2 Personal Slant  2 Overall 2.8 i think that this site takes all the bad points of a city and combines them. the graphics aren't very good, they could do better. Shawn (34) - Dec 22nd, 2001 Presentation  5 Graphics  6 Usability  5 Technical  7 Personal Slant  5 Overall 5.6 i think we have seen enough of this. Nicky (27) - Dec 9th, 2001 Presentation  5 Graphics  2 Usability  6 Technical  6 Personal Slant  4 Overall 4.6 yawn. let's all jump on the pixelised design bandwaggon Martin (14) - Dec 4th, 2001 Presentation  5 Graphics  5 Usability  6 Technical  6 Personal Slant  4 Overall 5.2 i don't love pixeldesigns.