Avatars

I have been thinking about the concept of avatars. When I play games with my children, they are usually more interested in working on their avatars than in playing the actual game. I find that I have little patience, and I want to use just any figure so that we can start playing the game. I am seeing now that avatar creation is part of the game for preteens and teenagers.

My daughter helped me make the avatar that you see on this blog. If it had been up to me, I woudl have chosen quickly. I just didn't want to scroll through pages of options. In the end we came up with something that looked eerily like me -- though much skinnier of course. I think that I actually own the same suit or at least one that is similar to the one that the avatar wears.