By now everyone knows about the wild-west nature Chatroulette, where you are just as likely to be greeted by a guy playing guitar as you are thousands of naked people doing all sorts of bizarre stuff.
There are scores of clone sites which have tried to capture on the media frenzy surrounding Chatroulette, and now there is one more.
ChatVille is a brand new Facebook game that combines the best elements of chatroulette with the gaming and viral mechanics of apps like Farmville.
ChatVille let’s you video chat with random Facebook users in a safe environment while earning compliments, unlocking badges, and leveling up through positive experiences with other users. You can also video chat with all your Facebook friends for the first time ever right from the Facebook website and post screenshots of your ChatVille adventures to Facebook albums.
Your interactions are tied to your Facebook account under the hood so there are actionable consequences for inappropriate behavior. We’ve also developed a proprietary system for weeding out the bad apples quickly and permanently.
This is exactly what Chatroulette needs to clean up it’s act, but one has to wonder what happens when the experience is squeaky clean and tied to your Facebook account. Part of what makes Chatroulette so much fun is the breadth of experiences available on the site, ranging from the sublime to the disgusting and everything in between.
Steve Shapiro, CEO of Digsby says that Chatville was built by the same team that created Digsby, the desktop app that now helps more than 2.5 million users manage over 6 million IM, email, and social network accounts from one application.
Check out ChatVille on Facebook.
