About Zwinktopia
Written by admin on Wednesday, March 10th, 2010 in Social Media.
When Zwinkies first became available on Zwinky.com, you were able to create a customized avatar using a variety of outfits, accessories and physical features to make your Zwinky personal. Having created your very own Zwinky you could implant it in a variety of social networking, including MySpace.
A short while ago we were talking about being able to move your Zwinky around. The question is if you are implanting a Zwinky into a website, how could you still be able to movie the Zwinky around?
Inter ActiveCorp (IAC), the company that created and manages Zwinky, decided to create a virtual world for Zwinky fans to explore. This world provides a forum in which Zwinky users can interact with each other. This virtual world, Zwinktopia is made up of a number of locations, many of which replicate real-world experiences, including cafes, gaming arcades and shopping malls. Zwinktopia gives Zwinky fans the opportunity to take their personalized Zwinky avatar into an animated virtual reality world that they can play games, chat with other Zwinky users and best of all explore. Listed below are a number of the main areas Zwinktopia users can explore:
• Zwinktopia includes a giant shopping called Zwinchester, this giant mall is made of two smaller malls, the East Mall and the West Mall. You can try chatting with fellow Zwinky fans or go into one of the many boutiques, such as The Castle or The Surf Shop. You can even visit a pizzeria to enjoy a slice of animated pizza!
• Zarcadia is the gaming arcade that you can visit in Zwinktopia. Here you can play a number of different games to earn ZBucks (we’ll look at this later on), or you can even play a round of bowling at Kingpin Korner.
• Zwinktopia also includes a university-like location known as ZSU. ZSU is centred around the ZSU Quad which is surrounded by the four key dorms: the Omegaad, the Dungeon, the Abacus and the End Zone. Zwinkys can hang out in the common rooms chatting with other Zwinkies, or they can just chill in their rooms, which can be bought with ZBucks.
• Zwinktopia also has the Java Jolt for Zwinkies you enjoy a hit of caffeine, you can even play games in this coffee shop. If you’d rather try a virtual burger or a soda, make a beeline for The Caf at ZSU.
You can navigate to all of these areas by selecting them on the central Zwinktopia map.
As you explore Zwinktopia you’ll find that you are able to spend ZBucks in some sites, while in others you will be able to earn ZBucks. So how do ZBucks and the Zwinky ZCard work?