Have You Heard About Zepeto Yet?

I am sure that everyone has seen those cute animate characters thriving on people’s recent social medias, making pretty poses and wearing fancy clothes. Zepeto is a Korean 3D avatar creating game. In the “social media”, users are supposed to create their own avatar that either represents themselves or is fictional–whatever they want. They can complete missions everyday to earn coins, coins can be used to buy better clothes as well as furnitures for your photoshoots. In the end, you can take pictures with your friends in Zepeto together just like you would on a normal day out. After browsing through 10 posts of Zepeto characters with their friends posing on WeChat, my curiosity was profoundly ignited, and I decided to try Zepeto out with my friends too.

Creating an account can be done by a simple click–unlike the conventional way of requiring an email, password, and verifications, you can simply link your Zepeto account to your WeChat, Instagram, Facebook, or other real life social medias. After you log in, the app will first ask you your gender. You can then take a selfie of yourself and it will automatically identify major features and an outline of your face. Some of it might not be as accurate but no worries, you can change them right after. The app will then lead you to a page where general, common facial features are provided and you can manually select the ones that look the most like you, or if you’re still not satisfied, there is always a custom button for you to adjust every detail. except for facial features, there is also hairstyle to choose.

After creating a face that you want and like, you can then choose your outfit. There are choices of one-pieces, tops, bottoms, socks, and headdress. You can put together an outfit that will resemble what you normally wear the most, and furthermore, you can try on things that you want to but wouldn’t wear in real life to test out your fashion skills!

Being a “social media”, Zepeto contains more than one way for players to interact with each other. On the “Discover” page, you can find popular Zepetos, celebrity Zepetos, editor-pick Zepetos, Zepetos with trending styles, and even just random Zepetos on the “street”. Moreover, you can put in the Zepeto code for a Zepeto that you want to follow, and simply follow them.

After you follow someone, you can then take pictures with them with many choices of poses. There are romantic poses, girly poses, cool and trendy poses. You can also choose the number of Zepetos in the photoshoot and more excitingly, the background can also be chosen to make the shoot more realistic.

Zepeto is now seen on almost every social media, and so are the avatars representing their real life characters. Although there can be improvements made, such as “more interesting missions to earn coins” wanted by a Junior player Rachel M, and also “more choices of outfit and poses” as suggested by another Junior player Kimberly Y.

“Zepeto really gave me a chance to be someone who I do not dare to be in real life.” said one player, Ben K, “It’s like an upgraded version of my true self.” What you still waiting for? Go try it out right now and tell us how you think about it!