What is Zwinktopia?

Zwinky.com started out as a website that gave you the ability to create you're very own personalized avatar. You could choose from a variety of accessories, outfits and physical features for your Zwinky. After creating your Zwinky you could use it as a cartoon representation of yourself on social networking such as MySpace.

However, on the previous page we talked about moving your Zwinky avatar around. If you embed your Zwinky into a Web page, isn't it just stuck there, with nowhere to go?

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 massive shopping mall, the Zwinchester. Here you can find both the East Mall and the West Mall. These two malls comprise a number of shops, such as the University Club or The Lair, there's even a pizzeria!

Zwinktopia also has an awesome gaming arcade, Zarcadia. Zwinky fans can play all sorts of games to earn ZBucks (we'll learn more on that later), you can also visit Kingpin Korner, Zwinktopia's bowling alley.

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. Zwinkies 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.

The Caf is a campus cafeteria at ZSU, where digital burgers and sodas are sold. There's also Java Jolt, a coffee house that has games inside.

You can move your Zwinky to any of these fun places using the key Zwinktopia map.

In all of these areas you will be able to either earn or spend ZBucks. So we have to ask the question, how do you use ZBucks and the Zwinky ZCard?

Get your own zwinkies

Additional resources:
Create and Use Your Zwinky
How Do You Create a Zwinky?