Whirled is a virtual world website and video game created by Three Rings Design . Its Open Beta stage was announced at the Game Developers Conference in 2007. It makes use of Adobe Flash as an applet embedded into the website while also having pages of HTML and JavaScript in a sidebar to allow players to manage their friends list and browse various categories of user-generated content . The concept is comparable to the virtual worlds in the PlayStation 3 game Home and Second Life , while also incorporating
In March 2010, at the Flash Gaming Summit, Three Rings CEO Daniel James stated, "Whirled is at $300K revenue, $5M invested. Abject failure." [1] He later clarified this statement on the Puzzle Pirates official forums, stating "Those are very approximate total investment in the project and total revenue to date. There are no profits. Whirled is wonderful in many ways, but its financial results are not yet good. We remain committed to trying to change that." [2] After Three Rings Design deemed the project not
Whirled is currently kept alive as a mirror of the original under the name Whirled Club. [3]
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