Avatars

Below is a list of avatars that a user with a Nitrome account is given and can earn. Avatars allow a user to customize his/her profile.

Overview
With the announcing of Accounts, Nitrome planned on having an avatar based system. This system allows for the user of an account to use an image of a Nitrome character as their avatar, but does not allow them to use an image they created themself, likely because how this type of user generated content is mostly offensive, as was the case with Hot Air Balloon Maker custom balloons.

To get around this, pre-made avatars were created. The user of an account is given a set amount of avatars upon creating their account, and can get more by performing finding hidden presents around Nitrome's site, and in their games.

Pink presents with gold ribbons were hidden around Nitrome's site, and in their games. Players could obtain them by clicking on them or touching them with their game character. When a present was taken, a message saying "New avatar unlocked!" would appear at the top of the site's screen. The present would then appear in its spot on the user's avatar page. The user could then go to their avatar page and click on the present to open it, revealing the newly-unlocked avatar.

Free avatars
Following avatars are given when a user registers a Nitrome account.

Unlockable avatars
Some avatars are given after the player has completed a certain task.

Unreleased avatars
These avatars have currently not been released and are completely unobtainable as usable avatars. The only proof the avatar exists is that they have been uploaded to Nitrome.com, and as such, are only viewable through URL.

Reverting back to no avatar
When changing an avatar, the user of the account clicks a URL to change their avatar to another one, this URL being http://www.nitrome.com/profile/avatar/index.php?a_id=, with after the "=" sign being a two digit number.

Placing after this equal sign in the address any letters, symbols, the numbers one, three, eight, thirteen, or any number above 44, then going to this URL twice, will cause the player's profile avatar to become completely white, their avatar when looking at their profile page to be the avatar that they get when they have just created their account, and all the comments they have made on the comment sections of game pages, these comment will disappear.

Going back to a regular avatar will cause their comments to reappear.