Looking for a 2000's chat room experience with virtual avatars
Back in the early 2000's (I want to say anywhere between 2001 - 2005), I had stumbled on a 3D virtual avatar chat room type place that I haven't been able to find again in the plethora of lists of virtual online spaces. Here are some things I remember (correctly, hopefully):
- It might have been a beta, or at least not fully released/in demo mode;
- You could customize your avatar and be a male or female human;
- It was perpetually night time in the world;
- You could walk around in third-person view around a small town with minimal structures, and there was a lot of trees, greenery, dirt, and rivers;
- There were a lot of French-speaking players;
- The avatar proportions were pretty 1-to-1 for human proportions;
- That being said, they were still stylized, so not like a standard 3D human avatar design;
- The avatars and the world were in 3D.
I've been trying to find some semblance of this thing for over 20 years with no luck. If anyone has *any* clue or hunch to what I'm looking for, it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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EDIT: Posting guesses already made. It is not:
- Cybertown
- Active Worlds
- Second Life