![]() ![]() You mouse over a location to bring up the title of the area and a listing of which games and places can be found there, and left click to travel there.įor the most part, movement in Fantage is by left mouse click you just click on the location you want to travel to. There are several places to access, including Uptown, Downtown, and the Carnival. Navigation of the world of Fantage is accomplished via the world map. You can wait minutes to be able to move from one place to another, or have huge pauses in the middle of mini-games that make them unplayable. When the servers are heavily loaded, there is an amazingly large amount of lag. It makes for a very cute, though entirely unrealistic, appearance. It all seems much more geared towards the tastes of girls rather than boys, though there were no shortage of male avatars present online each time I was there: everything is super cutesy.Īvatars are tiny in anime or manga terms, super-deformed, with overly large heads, huge eyes, and tiny bodies. ![]() It’s all a bit reminiscent of a child’s TV program, more than of a child’s painting or drawing. ![]() Everything is smoothed and simplified in shape, like a baby’s stuffed cube. Everything that can be shiny has been made shiny. Eye-wateringly bright colours and pretty pastels coat the surface of all buildings, and exterior and interior landscapes. ![]() “Eye candy” is the term that comes to mind in describing the overall look of Fantage. At USD$5.99 per month (less for more months paid for at a time), memberships cost little more than a pocket money allowance for that age. A membership confers some advantages: you have much greater choice in what you can buy, you get access to luxury rooms to entertain guests in, and you are given 1000 stars when you first join. The Premium Membership price compares favourably with that of Club Penguin. Choosing a user name with a number in it is typical – when I was online, every avatar except mine had a number in the user name. You get to choose the gender of your avatar, and do a little customisation of hair and outfit. The registration process is quick and simple, getting you into the virtual environment with a minimum of fuss. Fantage has been around since 2007, and their 40+ servers are often packed to capacity it would seem that despite my personal misgivings, it is a very popular place to go. I was not overly impressed by Fantage, having previously encountered “ Super Secret“, though a good friend of mine, who is within the age range for which the environment is intended, found Fantage to be fun and interesting. “ Fantage” is a contraction of the words “Fantastic Age”, with dual meanings: that the target audience is 7 – 14 year olds, which is presumably a pretty neat age to be, and that the virtual environment itself is fantastic. ![]()
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