Got my first plot of land, planted a tree and made my HatHead hat in the Chinese virtual world of Hipihi today. Hipihi just entered public beta yesterday.

Feel free to give it a try: sign up here, download here.

The interface is a little confusing since some of it is still in Mandarin. You can hack the client to display a mostly English GUI by changing the following entry in the following file:

…your install directory/UIData/LocalSetting/LocalSetting.xml -> change the ‘0′ to a ‘1′.

An outdated English version pdf to help translate various GUI elements can be found here. While the screens have changed quite a bit, you can still match up the Mandarin labels to the new GUI.

Hipihi resident openid has also translated some of the screens - JurinJuran has posted them here.

The english hipihi forums are here.