Avatar (Xbox)
Xbox Avatars are
The "Next generation" Avatar
On June 13, 2017, during
For users that have content from their Xbox 360 account, while the new character cannot support the past generation's assets, a backward compatibility mode is available for customers that want to use their existing content. By selecting "Xbox Original Avatar" from the main menu of the Editor, customers can import their entire Xbox 360-era character and use that to represent themselves across the Xbox One Dashboard. Users can continue to leverage their entire Xbox Original Avatar closet using the original app and importing their changes using the Editor, when they want to share a change.
As of the 1811 release, the Xbox Avatar Editor's built-in Closet includes 566 items enabling 142.67 x 10^33 different characters for customers creating an Avatar, which does not take color changing options into account. There is also an Xbox Avatar Store that allows customers to browse and try on new items as they are released to the public.[7]
History of Xbox Original Avatar
Xbox 360 users are able to customize body shape, sex, facial features, hair style, clothing, and "props".[8] They can then display a 2D picture of their Avatar on their Gamercard (although they are still free to use their previous picture should they so choose).[9]
Xbox Live GM Ben Kilgore stated in 2008 that Avatars will only be available for games that have an
Users can edit their current avatar using the Xbox Original Avatars application on an Xbox console, Windows 10 or Windows 10 Mobile device[12] or by using the Microsoft Silverlight based editor on Xbox.com. Across all of these experiences, users will have access to their entire closet of items that they've purchased or have been awarded throughout the Xbox ecosystem.
List of Xbox 360 games using Xbox Original Avatars
This is a list of games on the
– This color indicates that the game is no longer available for download.
– This color indicates Xbox 360 games that are compatible with Xbox One.
Xbox Original Avatar Store
The Avatar Store was launched as "Avatar Marketplace" on August 11, 2009, allowing users to buy clothes and props using their
As of late June 2009, various themed clothing articles were spotted in use by various members of the
In addition to clothing, the Avatar Store also has animated props available for purchase. Avatars can interact with these props, which include a remote control vibrating Warthogs from Halo, Lightsabers from Star Wars, footballs, skateboards, pets, and even pom-poms. According to
Starting with the
In August 2023, Microsoft announced that the Xbox 360 Marketplace will be shutting down on July 29, 2024, which will also close the Xbox Original Avatar Store.[21]
Xbox Original Avatar Awards (Xbox 360)
Some games allow players to unlock clothing for their avatars by meeting certain conditions such as unlocking the required achievement. Games that currently award Avatar Awards are listed below. This feature is discontinued from Xbox One since the avatars on Xbox One does not support Avatar Awards anymore as of June 1, 2016.
- A World of Keflings
- After Burner Climax
- Alan Wake
- Alien Breed 2
- Alien Breed 3
- Ancients of Ooga
- Aqua
- Batman: Arkham Origins
- Bloodforge
- Blur
- Battleblock Theater
- Cars 2: The Video Game
- Castle Crashers
- Comic Jumper[a]
- Costume Quest
- Crackdown 2
- Crazy Taxi
- Dance Central 2
- Dance Paradise
- Darwinia+
- Dead to Rights: Retribution
- Deadliest Warrior: The Game
- Deadlight
- DeathSpank
- DeathSpank: Thongs of Virtue
- Deca Sports Freedom
- Destination: Arcade
- DiRT 3
- Doom II
- Doritos Crash Course
- Doritos Crash Course 2
- Dragon's Lair
- Duke Nukem: Manhattan Project
- Dust: An Elysian Tail
- Earthworm Jim HD
- Fable 3
- Fable Anniversary
- Fable: The Journey
- Fire Pro Wrestling
- Forza Motorsport 4
- Fruit Ninja Kinect
- Full House Poker
- Gears of War 3
- Guardian Heroes
- Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock
- The Gunstringer
- Halo 4
- Halo: Reach[b]
- Hybrid
- Hydro Thunder Hurricane
- Hydrophobia
- ilomilo
- Jet Set Radio
- Joy Ride Turbo
- Karaoke
- Kinect Adventures
- Kinect Joy Ride
- Kinect Sports
- Kinect Sports: Season Two
- Kinectimals
- Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
- Lazy Raiders
- Left 4 Dead 2
- Limbo
- Lips I Love the 80's
- Lips Party Classics
- Lips Number One Hits
- LocoCycle
- Magic: The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers
- Mars Rover Landing
- Mass Effect 3
- Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition
- Mindjack
- MLB 2K10
- Monday Night Combat
- Motocross Madness
- Ms. Splosion Man
- MX vs. ATV Alive
- Perfect Dark
- Pinball FX 2
- Poker Night 2
- Portal 2
- Prototype 2
- Radiant Silvergun
- Raskulls
- Red Dead Redemption
- Renegade Ops
- Rise of Nightmares
- Risk Factions
- Rock Band 3
- Saints Row: The Third
- Saints Row IV
- Scrap Metal
- Sega Bass Fishing
- Sega Rally Online Arcade
- Snoopy Flying Ace
- Sonic Adventure
- Sonic Adventure 2
- Sonic Free Riders
- Sonic Generations
- Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode I
- Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II
- South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play!
- Space Channel 5 Part 2
- Splosion Man
- Star Raiders
- The Splatters
- Splosion Man
- Super Meat Boy
- Swarm
- Toy Soldiers
- Toy Soldiers: Cold War
- Trials Evolution
- UFC Trainer
- Unbound Saga
- Warlords
- World of Tanks: Xbox 360 Edition
- Wreckateer
- Xbox Live Labs
- Yar's Revenge
- You Don't Know Jack
- ^ a b The game has avatar awards in a game which looks different depending on the avatar's gender. e.g. The Recon helmet avatar award from Halo Waypoint is in two different color schemes (Red for males and Dare's [from Halo 3: ODST] white Recon Helmet for females.)
- ^ The game has achievements which can be used in another game to unlock avatar awards from there (e.g. a number of the achievements in Halo 3, ODST and Reach can be used in Halo Waypoint to unlock avatar awards)
- ^ The game has avatar awards which are linked to certain achievements in another game. (e.g. All the awards in Halo Waypoint needs certain achievements unlocked in Halo: Reach, except for the Halo: Reach Beta shirt which is no longer obtainable.)
Technical details of Xbox Original Avatars
Avatars are a collection of data, less than 1 kB,[22] describing character details such as clothing and facial features, propagated to Xbox.com. These avatars can be as personalized as the player wants them to be, detailing all the way down to the size. However, players can also create an avatar that does not represent them at all. Like a roaming user profile the Avatar will follow the player wherever he or she logs on. This makes the avatar the actual player in the virtual world.
The
Developers are able to use the data to create random Avatars to populate their game, or to create specific Avatars for specific roles.
Avatar bodies are animated using skeletal animation, whereas Avatar faces are animated by changing the eye and mouth textures.[9]
Microsoft has posted a comprehensive look at the technical details behind the Xbox Live Avatar system on their engineering blog.[23]
Avatar images are available for use on
- Full Avatar:
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GAMERTAG/avatar-body.png - Posing Full Avatar:
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GAMERTAG/avatarpic-xl.png1080x1080 - Large gamer picture:
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GAMERTAG/avatarpic-l.png - Small icon/gamer picture:
http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/GAMERTAG/avatarpic-s.png
See also
References
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- ^ a b "October 2018 Xbox Update Rolling Out Today". MajorNelson.com. October 11, 2018. Retrieved October 11, 2018.
- ^ "New Avatar Editor Debuts to Xbox Insiders". 18 June 2018.
- ^ "Avatars on the Xbox One Dashboard: Q&A". 8 August 2018.
- ^ "Microsoft's new Xbox avatars now available for Windows 10 testers". 16 August 2018.
- ^ "Search Microsoft Store". Xbox.com. November 19, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
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- ^ Gamasutra. Archivedfrom the original on 26 July 2008. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
- ^ 360 Avatars can only be used in non-violent titles | Game Development | News by Develop Archived August 21, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "New Xbox One Preview Update Heralds the Return of Avatars and More in 2016". Archived from the original on 2016-04-04. Retrieved 2016-03-23.
- ^ Source: Windows Store
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- ^ Justin McElroy (2008-10-28). "Microsoft to open 'Avatar Store' next year". Joystiq.com. Archived from the original on 2008-10-31. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
- ^ "Avatar Marketplace Catalogue". Xbox Resource. Archived from the original on 2010-09-29. Retrieved 2010-11-06.
- ^ a b "Xbox Preview Program members get ninja cat Avatar item for testing NXOE". 19 November 2015.
- ^ "Updates Rolling Out This Month: See Who's in a Party, Gamerscore Leaderboard, and More". 18 February 2016.
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