The Habbo Design Blog: Xmas 2023!

Hey hey HEY everyone, Olsoweir here! 👋 

SO. Everyone in the community knows Xmas is coming, but not everyone knows the theme. This year, we’re making it all about chocolate. Yum. 🍫🍫🍫

The theme is... chocolate.

Everyone in the community knows Xmas is coming, and at least everyone who pays attention to the conversation / leaks on Habbo Twitter / X knows the theme for Habbo’s Xmas event 🙃 Anyway, in case you aren’t aware, the designers decided to do a Willy Wonka theme this year! 

We wanted to make the iconic Obbah Wobbahs a big part of the event, and the chances are you’ve already seen them bouncing around Habbo singing their songs. Releasing a brand new, wearable Obbah Wobbah outfit seemed like the sensible thing to do 😁

You’ll also see that we’ve made a brand new Willy Wonka-style jacket – this will only be obtainable by crafting. Stay tuned for the event launch to see what you need to craft!

Early theme ideation and brainstorming

There are a fair few artists in the community and we thought you might find it interesting to get a bit of insight into what the early stages of the design process looked like for this event.

Design team lead Kukuyit leads the brainstorm and presents the rest of the team with both a mood board (below) and the “baseline” furni (above) – the basic building blocks that you, the builders, can use to create new rooms. After a week, sketches are completed and the team decides which sketches to take away and pixel into fully fledged furni and clothing!

Bringing the chocolate to Habbo

Back in 2016 we did an event called “Ghost Hunters” for Habboween which included an antagonist called Evil Frank. This version of Frank was popular, and we all love the idea of an Evil Frank anyway, so we decided to bring him back in a slightly different, Grinchy form 👹 

The basic premise of the event is that Evil Frank steals normal Frank’s prized chocolate recipe book. You’ll have to log in during the event to find out more 😌

The artist who put together this (stunning) bit of Habbo art wanted to make a kind of mock movie poster for the event, which I absolutely love. Props to them 😎

Earn free items and badges!

Xmas is always a huge deal in Habbo, and of course this year is no different. You’re probably well aware that the Quests feature has been reactivated in the Classic client, and this Xmas will see a brand new selection of quests to complete.

In addition, we’ve released a completely new set of gift calendar items – 12 collectable duckies! Who doesn’t love ducks? This is Habbo, everyone loves ducks 🦆

There’s also one extra reindeer-themed ducky that will only be obtainable via Quests 

Calling all goldsmiths!

Crafting usually plays a big role in Habbo events, but this year it's even more integral. To craft this year's Golden Accessory pack and three gold recolours of existing clothing items, you’ll need to use special golden tickets. ✨

The golden tickets will be given out in this year's gift calendar, via quests, and potentially on social media and as prizes for in-game activities and competitions!

Exactly how many golden tickets you need and what other ingredients are required will be shared for the launch, keep an eye on our social media and website.

Dressing up this Xmas

This Xmas includes a huge amount of new seasonal clothing, which is obtainable in all sorts of different ways: the in-game Shop, from gift boxes bought from the Collectibles Shop, crafting (collectibles crafting and the in-game sort), social media giveaways, and rare / regular Shop purchases.

Then we’ve got two rare clothing items and one LTD clothing item. SERIOUSLY cool IMO – and having a crown for the one year anniversary of LTD clothing item is cool. Number 1 of that is going to be insane, can’t wait to see who gets that 🤯

Xmas Collectibles!

There are a TON of Xmas-themed Collectibles coming to Habbo this year. We’ve got some really nice wearables arriving (see above), in addition to lots of chocolate-themed items AND some brand new custom chat bubbles 💬

Almost all of these will be available from two special gift boxes we’re both selling and giving away. Keep an eye on our X page and join our Discord for more information about this dropping early December 👀

- Olsoweir