Never ending PCA's: Kat Alaric

You might remember PCA (Pico Choice Awards) from Ameba Pico: A unofficial awards ceremony started by a family in Pico. It awarded people with different types of award categories like Favorite Male Pico, and Favorite Pico Band. They continued this ritual in Ameba Pigg, and for the second time around in Ameba Pigg, they are doing it once more.

I get to talk to Kat Alaric, who is currently one of the members of PCA's planning team and asked a few questions about it. Here's what she had to say:

Q: Why did you decide to start another Pigg Choice Awards?
A:  Almost everyone is starting school or already has started school. So, Bunni Alaric decided to start another PCA event so everyone could be able to vote and join.

Q: How is it like without Michie Alaricworking with you guys?
A: Working without Michie Alaric is really different and sad because it brings memories from our past PCA events. She would always do the polls and pick the nominees as well and decorate the stage. Even though she's not currently working with us, were doing our best to have a better event this time.

Q: Are there any new things to look forward to this time?
A: Hatsune Miku is performing XD. There's also more different categories than the last PCA.

Q: How can we vote?
A: You can vote at this link: http://apps.facebook.com/my-polls/pxfmv. Just click the options you prefer and proceed to the next question and you're done!

Q: When, and where is it?
A: It is in August 4 at  7PM (eastern time zone) and it is going to be held in the Mundial Club.

Q: Anything you want to tell people about PCA?
A: I want to tell the people to support us to keep PCA running! We need your votes as well. Thank you for everyone that has been participating in PCA since 2012!

For more information about the PCA's visit https://www.facebook.com/AmebaPiggChoiceAwards .

An Overview of the "Big Brother" madness in Pigg

Big Brother?

What is that? A larger sibling? Or just a huge sibling? A boss? What is this Big Brother that's been circulating around the Pigg gossips for a while?

October of last year, when AmePigg was just good ol' AmePico Magazine, we started a mini-game show called "AmePico Big Brother", that featured a group of Pico Players that virtually lived inside a house equipped with video recording device for several hours every scheduled date. These players were then dubbed as "Houseguests" and they competed in every day by either themselves or by groups. The winners of these competitions will then be crowned the "Head of Household", who would later nominate two people to be voted out by the public. The person with most votes by the end of voting sessions will be removed from the game and the last one standing will be crowned the winner of Big Brother.

First Season

For the first season, not a lot knew about the competition except for a few people in Pico - which are the ones working for the production team. It's funny to start such strange and foreign game show around people who have no idea what it is. It's going to be challenging, but we pulled it off. The first season was a great hit, and people look forward to it a lot, with many of them wanting a to be in a second season if there would ever be one.

But all of these enthusiasm and excitement went down and slowly faded away as the announcement of Ameba Pico's closure led to the cancellation of the season. It was a devastating moment, and only two episodes were produced.

Second Season

Due to popular demand and the production team's perseverance of creating another season, AmePigg decided to renew AmePico Big Brother for another season, but in this case, it would be called "Big Brother Ameba Pigg". Since people from Pigg/Pico have already heard about it, hundreds of aspiring Pigg players applied but only nine were accepted. Season two had intruders, twists, and a massive finale that involved the finale two to show their faces. In the end, the winner was crowned and received 750 AG and 5 tokens in total. With the season finale, people were asking for another season, and so the team did renew it for another season.

Was AmePigg the first to have Big Brother in Pigg/Pico?

Believe it or not, AmePigg is not the first one to bring the gameshow in the virtual worlds of Pigg and Pico. Rhenjhennel, a Pico Player who was famous among Filipino players, created his own version of Big Brother, following the Filipino format. Another Pico Player named Kerby also planned his owned version of Big Brother called "Young Brother", although his account was locked and it was never continued.




Worldwide

The country to thank for this awesome reality game show is the Netherlands, where Big Brother all started in 1999. Then several countries had their own versions. From being called Big Brother, it was also called Grande Fratello, Gran Hermano, Veliki Brat, and Secret/Loft Story. Over Sixty countries have their own version of Big Brother, but our version decided to follow the United States' format of Big Brother, with competitions and where the houseguests are allowed to discuss who they'd like to nominate and such.

Season Three

Our lips are sealed for what's in store for Season three. But you can audition and apply early via our website here.

Ameba Pigg's Scratch Card Cheat Sheet

Greetings, Ameba Pigg people! We might have announced on our Facebook Page that AmePigg Magazine production is on hiatus (because, you know - busy schedules and the usual "time conflict" problem). But that doesn't mean we are going to stop helping and posting fun stuff for you guys! One of our models Wubby Alaric posted a Scratch Card cheat sheet that helps you get what you want and what each card contains. It is very handy if you are a daily scratch card enthusiast. You can find the whole gallery by going here.

The Red Spots indicate where the Tokens (Tickets) are located.

Piggers is here!

The long wait is finally over - Piggers, the anticipated Pigg-player social networking website is now OPEN! Developed by giveaway creator and Pigg "celebrity" Tomley, Piggers promises to give a better pigg experience for the english community of Ameba Pigg by socializing with fellow players while playing Pigg. Gasp! It's finally here, and we encourage you to register to check out what's up.


The homepage let's you take a first look of what's happening inside the community and encourages you to register to view more of it. You can actually register via your Facebook Account, but you can also register the long and safer way - via email.



The homepage when signed it is pretty impressive and the eye candy Pigg based buttons surely give the website that "Pigg world" feel to the people. Although scrolling might be a little chunky and heavy, the overall design of the website is great. At the sidebar is where you can see different things (including online buddies, "featured" members and recent logins. We also noticed that GIFS are supported in this website which is a great thing.  That's all we can say for now because you have to discover the website for yourself, and we do to! (Excitement, I just s*at my pants)


Original Post by DumDums

"Line Play" Game Review

Ameba Pigg is a very adorable and addicting game as we all know. But sometimes, it can get annoying because it's all in Japanese and we are not able to access the game to its fullest because of that. Sometimes, it also gets repetitive and boring when it comes to updates and new challenges (whether in fishing or casino slots). Although it has its cons, we still play it because we are so far still not able to find a game that is as fun, colorful and kawaii as Ameba Pigg.


Just recently as I was scrolling to find new apps for my phone, I stumbled upon this game called "Line Play". It really intrigued and got my attention because the icon for it looked pretty neat (An avatar and some lush outdoor cartoon area similar to Pigg's). The screenshots for it looked interesting and so I tried playing it. Guess what? I am no longer productive as I have been playing this for hours. Perfect time waster!


Line Play is from a Japanese company called "Line Naver" which makes apps for smartphones (Oh, you Japan; why do you have to make such addicting kawaii games all the time?) It's concept is interestingly similar to Ameba Pigg's (Did they like, get the idea from them? who knows!) Although it still has it's differences that distinguishes it to be a different game.

SIMILARITIES
Line Play describes itself to be a game to "Express yourself through your avatar while travelling with friends and chatting" just like Ameba Pigg. And as I have played it so far, this game doesn't disappoint and did a good job of  "expressing ones self through avatars". Its avatars are physically similar that of Pigg's but the whole structure of the avatars are much taller and slim (and with a little less face customization than Pigg.) There is also a great option which allows you to, instead of a girl or boy, create an animal avatar which you can equally dress up like boy and girl counterparts.

To be able to decorate and unleash your inner interior designer is also great! A lot of  high end looking and shockingly Pigg similar things (Like blocks) are available for you to tinker with. You can visit your friends' rooms and interact with their furniture (Take a bath in their house, they won't know!). You can also take a peek on their diary located somewhere in their house. This function lets you post daily photos or journal entries where anyone can comment or like (But I think there's an option of turning that function off.)

DIFFERENCES
While Line Play and Ameba Pigg are both equally eye-candies and full of furniture and clothes to be your unique self, this next thing will really tell Ameba Pigg and Line Play apart. In Line Naver (as well as Ameba Pigg), there are rooms in which people can interact and go to depending on your interest, country or whatever you like (age, sexual orientation, random groups to seperate your self from the "boring rest of the world"). BUT in Play Line, these areas are not much... how do we say this... "Go-able", in a way that the areas aren't ACTUALLY AREAS your avatar can go to, but plainly a chatroom where you can interact with people who enter that certain area. Pretty boring, isn't it? But then again, Line Play has to seperate itself from the rest, right? This feature comes really handy though when you're out of the house and just want to communicate with friends and what not.

Another difference is that in  your rooms, you cannot actually communicate with people unlike in Ameba Pigg. but you can leave comments if you'd like to. But the biggest difference in my personal view is the fact that LINE PLAY is an app-only game and is not accessible in the computer world (yet, hopefully.) Ameba Pigg can be accessed in both PC and Mobile worlds, but the app is pretty disappointing and dull as of now, so the app doesn't actually count as part of the Ameba Pigg fun experience.

Overall, the app is fun and a must try especially if you are fond of playing Pigg because this will get you hooked at least for a couple of weeks. It is available on the App Store and Google Play. Send us your thoughts at our Facebook Page and visit Line Play's Website.

Original Article by DumDums (AlbertN)

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Photo Post: Today's News March 8th 2012 2013 PDT

Piggers might be here sooner than we thought!
This Loading bar teaser is making us excited!
(P.S.: Do not wait for it to load. It's a teaser :P)
http://piggers.net/ - check it out for yourself!

Photo: News Today March 3rd 2013 PST

News Today: Did you know that there's a new page around the Pigg Community which ranks Pigg celebrities, pages, groups and talent? Check out Pigg World Records! 

They currently ranked us (AmePigg Magazine) as the NUMBER ONE Pigg Page Organization which flatters me so much! I thought no one would actually appreciate our works, but I stand corrected. This actually made me happy that people DO actually care about the work we do. We really value that.

Photo: News Today March 2nd 2013 PST

Do the harlem shake -- Pigg Style!

The recent viral video "Harlem Shake" has been the talk of many people for the past few weeks! After Filthy Frank's video, Everyone has made their own versions of the trend. Hey, who wouldn't want to miss out on this new trend, right? There are dozens of them in Youtube, and even our Pigg Players have made each of their own versions!

Just yesterday, the AmePigg Team (us) made our own version of the video along with Models, Admins and friends. It was a fun experience, too bad you missed it! But we want to show you how much fun we did; Maybe you can even join us next time!

AMEPIGG VERSION

Awesome people in an awesome room in dancing awesome dances!

We also loved other pigg players' harlem shake videos, so check them out as well!

AR AND CHIKO VERSION

A bit too long, but awesome editing!

SHIBUYA VERSION

Calm down, people! Awesome public mob though!

NICHOLAS AND FRIENDS VERSION

We love that they sped it up, Looks trippy.

Original Post by DumDums

Credits to Video Owners

Amepigg's February Magazine is out now!

Haven't read our latest magazine yet? 

Well, you should! It's fun-packed with various hot topic including new trending Ameba Pigg fashion concepts, music video snapshots, random but amazing photoshoots, celebrities and many many more.

And since it's February, this edition also have it's  "Valentines Special" section which is filled with various things connected with the mostly known event this month, February 14, Valentines Day.

Now here's a sneak peak with what's inside this prestigious magazine.

Want to read more? Feel free to proceed to this link:

"AMEPIGG MAGAZINE FEBRUARY ISSUE"

And if you want to check out our previous issues;

"AMEPIGG MAGAZINES"

 

A huge thanks from the whole Amepigg team 

for your continuous support from the start of our publications up to this very moment. We swear to give our 101% with every magazine we produce, making it better and better each time.

Once again, hope you enjoy this month's magazine and please watch our on our next issue to be released this May 2013. Thanks a lot!

AmePigg Big Brother Information

        It was September of last year when we, The AmePico Team, announced that we will be making our own version of a worldwide popular reality show series where people are on confinement for days while being captured 24/7 on extreme situations. The AmePico Big Brother was highly anticipated and more than a hundred people audition to be a part of the Pico Game. 

Among those hopefuls, 15 were picked for pre-elimination, and only 8 actually got in the real game itself. These people were watched by the people start fights, compete and do crazy things while inside the house. It was a fun experience for them although this experience did not last long because while the game was ongoing, Pico (The game where Big Brother is being held), announced that they will be closing the game. The season was cancelled due to the fact that the prize would not be given anways so there was no use of playing the game. Everyone was sad not only because of the cancellation of Big Brother, but also because of the Closure of Pico itself.

But now that a lot of Pico players migrated in Pigg, A second season is upcoming and is again highly anticipated. AmePigg Big Brother is the second season of the AmePico/Pigg series. It will be held in Pigg and currently, we are looking for hopefuls to be in the contest! In this blog, there is a tab where you can audition to play in the game! Visit the "AMEPIGG BIG BROTHER" tab to audition!

Schedule of game was pushed back from April to June because the server where the house is located at is currently experiencing some problems and we are still waiting until it is fixed. If not fixed until June (which hopefully will not happen), We will find another way to play the game.

For this season, there will be seperate Youtube Videos for Competition/Nomination and Daily Life of the housemates inside the hosue for further understanding of the game. More information will be posted in the AMEPIGG BIG BROTHER TAB regarding how it will all work out

WE ARE HIRING!

We are in need of Photographers, Writers, Plotline Writing Assistants and Record men! If you're interested, please contact us via Facebook messages. DO NOT APPLY if you are applying to be a housemate. 

-DumDums, original content

Put Jellyfish on your Aquarium Window!

BAHASA INDONESIA TRANSLATION AND TAGALOG TRANSLATION AVAILABLE!

Isn't it lovely that Pigg has wall sized aquariums? But it's upsetting that we do not know how to put fishes in them! Now we're all stuck with a giant wall bowl with out any creatures. But we have a solution for that! In this tutorial (Originally made by Kat Alaric via Piggpals), We are going to show you how to put jellyfishes inside your aquarium!

PROCEDURE ONE
So first you need to have gotten AT LEAST 30 of them )Bummer, go crazy fishing mode!)  in order to exchange them. 
1. Go to travel (Via Door button)
2.Click the icon that says "SHOP"
3.Click the man with blue-ish hair
4.Click on the jellyfish
5.Click the pink button under it 
(NOTE THAT YOU NEED TO HAVE AT LEAST 30. Thirty for each jellyfish you want to put in fish tank. We know it's time consuming, but hey it's worth a shot!)




PROCEDURE 2
Now this is HOW to actually put them IN your fish tank.
First you needed to exchange them at the fish shop which I showed how to do that in the before tutorial.
1. Go to decor
2. Click the fish tank window you want
3.Click the pink button next to the number of fish you have
4. Exit the tiny window
5. Exit the decor window
AND NOW YOU'RE DONE!
Enjoy those little jelly creatures swimming around your wall fish tank. Watch out for those stingers!


-DumDums, source: Kat via Piggpals

Facebook for Pigg Only?!

Just today, Indy Etoile published a Facebook-Like website exclusive for Piggu Players only wherein you can Customize your profile just like Facebook, make groups of your friends in Pigg, post photos, chat and more. PIGGBOOK has currently a few members, and we are encouraging you to SIGN UP! It's very simple and easy, all you need to do is fill out the form and check your email for the activation link. Here are some photos:

A few hours after Piggbook was shared, Benry shared a link to an upcoming "Online Community". We're guessing that this is also a Facebook sort of thing for Pigg Players. The website says "COMING SOON" and the graphics looks terrific so far! We can't wait until the release of this website too!

That's It for now, make sure to register to one of these soon!

Piggers [http://piggers.net]

Piggbook [indyetoile.com]

Getting Jailed for Earning AG?!

Yesterday, a Pigg player posted a statement on her page about getting jailed by Cyberagent because of false registrations ton earn CG/AG among Pigg players. The original statement was posted on facebook:

JaniCe Śhieru

10 hours ago

=TOP NEWS=

Everyone for your safety, stop earning!
I saw a post in Ochi X Icha 's page about:
When we earn, some surveys like panasonic or tsutaya will ask us to fill our personal information such as Phone number and adress in Japan. Actually, the cyber agent will send a message or visit the phone number and address that we type in. But i'm sure everyone entered a fake personal information. Well that is ilegal. Cyberagent would try to find out the criminals and they will be prisoned for months or maybe several years. This is just like what cybercrimes that happed in philipines several months ago, and the criminals who is from philipines got arrested and prisoned for 12 years. Yeah this is not kidding. read this: id.wikipedia.org/wiki/kejahatan_dunia_maya (indo version. Teanslate it if you are non-indos.) and you will believe what i said

Well everyone, you can choosed to believe or ignored this post but REMEMBER i'm not kidding. What you must do is to STOP EARNING. I hope you will listened what i said.
Good night :3
~Janice

We were quite surprised when we saw this, a lot of people reacted to it, including our very own admin IKAY:

AmePico Magazine

7 hours ago

Okay, people are spreading the news that "we might get arrested from earning" In my opinion, for me it's not true. Some people believes and some people don't. What do you think they are going to do anyways? GO TO OUR COUNTRIES AND RANDOMLY TAKE US TO JAPAN AND PUT US TO JAIL? So I can't blame you for believing but I am not one of those people who is scared by this.
-I K A Y

Some people said it was just a hoax or a chain message, some say it can happen. But whether it's true or not, Counterfeit Registration is never a right thing. You register for a fake account on a Japanese Website just to get AG from it. You enter fake Japanese mobile phones and addresses. Japanese people owning those numbers might be irritated. We're not telling you to stop, we're just informing that this thing we're doing isn't legal. It's still your choice whether you want to earn AG/CG illegitimately for now, or you can wait until (or if ever) Cyberagent recognizes us English players and decides to put up offers for international users to use.

-DumDums

Happy New Year!

YAY! 2013! 2012 went fast, huh? I hope that you guys are as excited as us this 2013 as we are heating things up! We have GOOD news and BAD news for you guys. The Bad News is, we WILL NOT have a JANUARY magazine. Aw, don't slam your head against the wall; because we're working on a FEBRUARY Magazine for you guys! THAT'S the good news! In fact, It's in the works and Quarter of it is ACTUALLY FINISHED! We're going to give you some previews here eventually. Also, we will not be constantly posting in our blog (Maybe once in a while or so) because we would like to focus with you guys on our Facebook Page where we can interact and do activities more. The More the merrier, Right?

That's It for now, I'm not going to post any more because we would like to work on more of the pages for the February Magazine before giving you guys previews. To view our previews, click on the button above that says "SNEAK PEAKS". There will be new random sneaks every 1-3 weeks. It depends actually because real life schedules are pretty hectic. Final Exams and Back to School is real pain for students!

-DumDums

Pigg Settings - Translated Just for you!

Are you getting annoyed by the fact that all of Ameba Pigg is Japanese? If so, we are too! we can't wait until Cyberagent Japan decides to translate the game into English. Even just the important stuff like Settings and Reminders and Titles of Buttons because It's extremely confusing for us international users.

They ARE aware of us moving to Pigg so there is a BIG chance that they will translate the game in English for us to indulge and enjoy the Japanese Online Community furthermore. Left Photo (source: MichieAlaric) is a photo of Shibuya Area in Pigg (not Pico) where English speaking users are depicted in the photo. (We're not sure if this is a hoax or edit but let's keep our hopes up and cross our fingers. (Click the Photo to enlarge it.) (Full photo can be found on Michie's Facebook at ----)


Enough with the hot air and babbling around, BELOW are the edited images of the former Settings in pigg written in Kanji/Katakana/Whatever in ENGLISH, INDONESIAN BAHASA, AND TAGALOG! Enjoy!

-DumDums :)