To move your avatar, you click on different areas of the screen and if there’s a little yellow orb, your character will warp there. Each user starts out with ‘My Room’, a hip, open layout rooftop apartment for just their avatar (or other players that are invited there) that can be decorated however the user would like. Rooms can also be adult themed and age restricted, which you can unlock with the purchase of an Access Pass. Rooms can be designed to look like real places and landmarks like the Eiffel Tower and Times Square, or a player can make an original area like a park, a pool, or a seemingly endless hallway where pink glittery hearts will cascade on loop.

You can also see if the room is at capacity, and most cap at 10 people. Here, you can see the language that players will be speaking, player usernames and countries, ages, genders, and the option to add them as a friend. Each chat room has an introductory info box that you can view before you go in. Most players opt for pre-made rooms, and a visit to the ‘Chat Rooms’ page shows you those. With the ‘Chat Now’ option, your character sits in “Buckstars Coffee” and waits for the system to spawn another player. The app opens up to your homepage, with your avatar on the left and a grid with all of the things you can do on the right like ‘Chat Now’, ‘Get Matched’, ‘Shop’ and ‘Friends’. For the desktop app, Windows 7 or later with at least 512 mb of RAM free is required. There’s also the option to sign up through Facebook if you don’t want to use your email.Īt this point, you’re prompted to download the desktop or mobile app to continue. After the avatar has been created, enter a name for the avatar, your name and email address and your account is created.

As for clothing, there were around 50 different pieces to choose from including tops, bottoms, and shoes. The range from plain everyday ponytails to hip asymmetrical bobs to voluminous curls.

The hairstyles came in natural colors as well as neon pinks, reds, blues, and purples. Maneuvering the character while designing was clunky, and it was difficult to see what hairstyles and accessories like earrings looked like from the side because the character focuses on the user during the turn instead of looking straight ahead. The user starts off with only eight different skin shades to choose from and nine “heads”, or premade features.

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