Online Virtual Avatar Games

What is an Avatar?

An avatar is an icon or image that is often personalized by an online user as their graphical representation. Today, many chat rooms and forums are equipped to enable the use of these avatars which serve as a digital representation of the user in virtual reality. Avatars can be:

• photos
• images
• cartoons
• animals
• other objects

The word avatar comes from Hindu mythology in which spirits descend and inhabit bodies. In the virtual sense, the user inhabits the body of their avatar to represent them while playing online virtual avatar games, chatting, on their blogs and just about wherever they go on the Internet. Some people use their unique avatar as a brand.

Gaia Online

Gaia Online is a virtual "hangout" geared more towards teens and young adults, though members of any age are welcomed. Members' avatars can be chosen from a cast of characters including:

• heroes
• villains
• ordinary characters (these are considered "Non-Player Characters" (NPCs) and are used to interact within site-wide member social events.

If you want to play at Gaia Online, registration is required if you want to take part in the Anime role-playing community. You can earn rewards when playing games involving other players. It's a fun site with plenty to do. You can:

• dress up your avatar
• chat
• role play
• play games
• participate in forums
• journals

Moove Online

Members at Moove Online not only get to create their own 3-D avatar, but also their own private virtual world game, complete with 3D chat rooms. Membership is free, and the world you create is yours and yours alone. As its creator, you not only figure out what will happen within your world, but in these online virtual avatar games you get to:

• furnish limitless virtual 3D rooms
• decorate with your pictures using Webcam
• voice
• full control of who else visits your world
• chat using your 3D avatar
• dress up your avatar with a new and limitless wardrobe
• match and meet friends for 3D chat game with romance

Creating Your Avatar

Avatars at Moove Online are 3D actors. They are selected from the Actor Studio and then it is up to you to customize your selection. Avatars' gestures are life-like. They can do the following and more:

• laugh
• kiss
• hug
• walk
• jump
• make faces

Members can virtually visit one another, chat, and go to each other's rooms if invited.

Meez.com

At Meez.com your 3-D avatar is known as a Meez. You create it as your online representation, not just on Meez but everywhere you go on the Internet. The software lets you personalize your avatar to look similar to what you look like in real life, or you can do something totally different.

The games available at Meez.com work on:

• PCs
• Macs
• Most Linux PCs

Simicountry

Simcountry as four worlds.

• Kebir Blue - fourth planet of Vega Minor
• Fearless Blue sixth planet of Vega minor--25.3 light years from earth
• White Giant—second planet of Mauri Kappa
• Golden Rainbow fifth planet of Mauri Kappa--25.2 light years from earth.

The object of this game is to care for your country or empire. This requires strategy, especially when things get tough. You can choose to play in a peaceful world if you want, but Fearless Blue is a harsh world where peace-loving presidents aren't welcome.

More Resources for Online Virtual Avatar Games

These are just a few of the many games that use virtual avatars. Additional sites you may want to check out include:

• Oyunlar1.com
• Maid Marian.com
• QuickFlashGames.com
• Online Games