Many of you wanted to continue in contact with some of your housemates after the game. Chiku created the first “after Tengaged game” site.
Thanks Chiku! We have been following it and there are very very interesting conversations between you, ttender and RockGoddess!
We have finally added autorefresh that many of you asked for. Initially we have only setup the autorefresh on those games where you are playing but once we see that it’s working properly and our servers can handle the extra work we will include it to all pages.
Rockgoddess discovered the braided pigtails faster than me witting this post…. 
In the other hand we also made some changes to the way private messages can be sent, just to avoid sending an unintended public message.
Hi,
Time is passing and first Tengaged game #6689 will end soon. Snoow is evicted (we will have to check the algorithms again), and hopefully he will post it in his blog, but remember if you don’t have a blog and want to express something on Tengaged, you may now use our very minimalistic “Bauhaus” blogging tool on your “Me” page.
There are things to add yet to this microblogging tools, as the RSS feeds, more editing options, etc…. and that means this weekend we will continue developing.
in replay to:
http://www.tengaged.com/message/Chiku/3922
yes… we are watching 
…. and developing. Hopefully we will continue adding new features while you still with us.
Thanks to all of you who are giving nice ideas too.
With only 4 days of Tengaged online we have overpass our expectations, thanks to all of you!. We have been very busy fixing things and preparing the new changes and features for the incoming releases. As you know we are still on “alpha” version and we are open to any of your suggestions to improve the playability of Tengaged.
Below you have some features that we are developing and I would like to share to you to hear your opinions.
1. “Rookies” game. As you know when you enroll you can see that new games will be available. The next game to be open is called “rookies”. It is very similar to the actual one “newbies” although only people with some experience (karma) can enroll. This way we will try to not to mix those who are just entering into Tengaged for the first time, which many of them are not participating at all, with those who have already played and are more active.
2. “Friendship”. We are not those social sites where you may have 2000 “friends” but don’t really know nothing about them. We want to take friendship seriously and really end up knowing well new people in Tengaged. A friend is something more than just clicking a “Add Friend” button, in short future the site will automatically measure some friendship indicators as activity, interaction and how did you get to know him/her i.e. in a game, by invitation etc. Once you have a friend that reaches a certain friendship you will be able to send messages directly, or even invite them to join a new game, etc.
3. “The Big Game”. We will also release a never ending game. It will be the central game in the site, where everybody will be able to vote. 10 people, infinite days. But all of us will vote just as the real “Big Brother” game, the difference is that each day one person leaves, but a new one will enter too. More details soon.
Thanks.
Hi,
We have just added an small new feature in Tengaged, now you have feeds available for each game and for each user. Hopefully soon we will add to the general feed for all games, but it will take some days.
Look for this icon:
So if you don’t want to loose anything about your favorite users don’t forget to subscribe to their feeds!.
As you know, at the begining of the day you may vote “ok” or “not ok” to each housemate comment. At the end of the day the algorithm calculates many different parameters, here is an interesting one:
If you vote every body’s comment positive the algorithm will penalize you, it happens the same when you vote everybody’s comment as negative, so Try to always vote something near to half votes positive and half votes negative.
Thank you all of you who have participate on Tengaged so far!. It has been an amazing weekend. Soon things will change in order to improve the usability and playability of the site, and yes… we are looking all your comments and suggestions, we are still on beta testing phase so expect things to improve.
Special thanks to the pioneers that entered into the Tengaged hall of fame: flickrlovr, malfunctions, snoow, catty, umfooanoo, Chiku, mrhansell, ttender, jiller and testcar. The best moments so far have been with this special group #6689 . Thanks to all of you.
We have learned many things and some of them are already planned, autorefresh comments, rss to user activity, api, better enrollment system and better interaction between friends. We hope all of you continue with us and let’s all make a nice place to have fun!
The Tengaged team
Finally the “alpha” version is open for brave users to test it.
How it works?
Basically you enroll in the game and once 9 more participants enroll then the game starts. Each game last for 7 days and each day you have to interact and know the other participants by sending public or private messages to the group as well as rating the messages.
Each day an algorithm process who among the participants should be nominated by calculating many indicators like number of negative and positive votes, number of messages sent, how you have rate other’s messages, etc. The list of nominees (3 contestants) will be voted by their housemates and the one with more points will be evicted from the game.
Each day one of the participants is evicted, and at the end of the 7 days the list of winners will be generated by the algorithm.
