Can you use Xbox avatars in games?

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Hi guys,

I am new to the whole Unity game dev thing but come from an XNA background. Is it possible to get the players avatar in Unity?

–Dom

There is a avatar system for unity in the asset store that is VERY similar to xbox avatars, but that is the most I can help you with their.

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Yes.

There does exist an API that you can call from Unity (or anywhere really). It’s a public API that offers JSON or XML responses for some of the XBOX Live Gamer data. I understand that it’s not everything, however the avatar IS available!

The endpoint:

http://www.xboxleaders.com/api/games.json?gamertag=GAMER_TAG_HERE

Here’s is an example of a response:

{
	"Data": {
		"Tier": "gold",
		"IsValid": 1,
		"IsCheater": 0,
		"IsOnline": 1,
		"OnlineStatus": "Online playing COD: Black Ops II - Search & Destroy

on Overflow",
“XBLLaunchTeam”: 0,
“NXELaunchTeam”: 0,
“KinectLaunchTeam”: 0,
“AvatarTile”: “https://avatar-ssl.xboxlive.com/global/t.fffe07d1/tile/0/2000b”,
“AvatarSmall”: “404 - File or directory not found.”,
“AvatarLarge”: “404 - File or directory not found.”,
“AvatarBody”: “http://avatar.xboxlive.com/avatar/dwalsh83/avatar-body.png”,
“Gamertag”: “dwalsh83”,
“GamerScore”: 310,
“Reputation”: 20,
“Name”: “David Walsh”,
“Motto”: “Watch your head.”,
“Location”: “Madison, WI, US”,
“Bio”: “There is, and only can be, Call of Duty.”
},
“Stat”: “ok”,
“In”: 2.504,
“Authed”: “false”,
“AuthedAs”: null
}

You can check it out in full from the source.

From Unity, you can utilize this API using the WWWFormclass that is built in to Unity.