Board Thread:Friend Code Exchange/@comment-26449148-20150530182649/@comment-24668482-20150530191118

Hi Julie,

The only way to have an unique avatar (not one of the game options) is to connect your game to facebook, unfortunately. When a game is (currently) connected to facebook there is a blue box under the players name in your friends list/top 1000 that shows the name attached to the facebook account, which is the only way facebook affects names in the game. But this is separate to the name you use in the game, and the only way to change it would be to change the name associated with that facebook account (I think, I also don't do facebook).

For the game name itself, that you enter in the game by tapping on your name on your Home Desktop, the character limit is device dependent. Kindle and Android devices have a 10 character limit as you have noticed. iOS devices don't have a character limit as such, more a space limit. They are limited to filling a certain portion of the box where you enter your name. How many characters that translates to will depend on the size/shape of those characters used as well as the screen resolution of the iOS device being used. For example, on an iPad3: using just small letter 'i's, you can have 33 - i.e. iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii, where as using capital 'Q's you can only have 11 - i.e. QQQQQQQQQQQ, which takes up the same amount of space (in the game). But on an iPhone, which has a different screen resolution, it would only be 24 'i's or 8 'Q's, as the space is more limited. At least that is how it is on the current version of the game for iPads (Spring 2015 Update). In previous incarnations of the game, iOS devices had a simple character limit instead, with about 22 characters being the max. I'm not sure when it changed, I don't typically use long names.