Private alpha phase virtual world Rocketon has announced a number of new features via an email dispatched to alpha testers.  The new developments can be split into two distinct areas.  First up, more activity please.  ‘Quests’ have now been introduced whereby players must stumble across quests in order to solve puzzles to receive in-game rewards.  Players can now also grow their own monster pet and fight in ‘Monster Fights’ against other players.  And now for a dash of goo – Players are now able to cover other avatars in slime, goo, and various non-niceties.

Rocketon goes social

Rocketon’s second upgrade comes via a variety of social features.  First and formost, users may now create their own personal rooms and invite other players over to take advantage of the virtual worlds main focus at the moment.  Within these rooms, players can aggregate content from all over the web including pictures and images from Flickr and videos from YouTube for example.  Rocketon has also included profile pages for it’s users, making it easier for others to find other players with similar likes and interests.
Rocketon is a virtual world that exists on top of a 2D web.  Third party websites make up the ‘landscape’.  Users can watch online videos together in a ‘screening room’ format, play Rocketon’s games, or simply visit other pages together.

The site currently features cartoonish avatars that are fully customizable via a microtransaciton mechanism.  No updates as of yet as to how and where the microtransaciton customizations will come into play, but hey…they’re still in alpha.  Let’s just keep our eye on these guys for a bit.