#virtual pet sim

[flightrising]

This month's elemental holiday has begun! All of dragonkind come together to participate in the Flameforger's Festival, a celebration of the Flamecaller and her Fire Flight! 

[alleppo]

Peryton

[mythaura-blog]

Development Update - February 2023

Hi there folks, Miyazaki here with Mythaura’s development update for the month of February!

Topics covered include:

Mythaura Age of Use Policy Update

About Page Expansion

Feature Spotlight: Elements

Beast Species Sizes

Ko-fi Q3 2023 Assets

Beast Creator Contest

More info available under the cut!

Mythaura Age of Use Policy Update

Starting today, March 1, 2023, Mythaura users must be 16 years of age in order to use the site and/or participate in the Discord community. This policy will be enforced starting immediately.

Article 8 of the EU's GDPR forbids collection of data from anyone under the age of 16. The GDPR sets a general age of consent at 16, which means a business cannot "legally process the data of a data subject 15 years-old or younger." In cases where you work with the data of children under 16, you can only process the data with permission from their parent or guardian.

About Us Page Expansion

We have updated our About Page with some more info about the game and features we have planned. There will be even more updates to this page as we continue to develop Mythaura’s core features.

Feature Spotlight: Elements

Mythaura is a world of magical creatures, each born with two elements. These cosmic elements are mysterious and powerful, imbuing the beasts of Mythaura with abilities that give them unique powers.

The first element is based on their species. For example, Griffins have the Air element, granting them incredible flight speed and agility. In addition to their species element, each beast is also given a second element that is cosmically-aligned with the time of day they were born. When both the species element and the personal element of a beast are the same, both the strengths and weaknesses of that element are compounded.

Elements are an important part of the day-to-day life of all Mythaurans. They are part of each beast’s identity, can determine what sorts of jobs they are well suited for, and can turn the tide in battle.

Read through Mythaura's elements more in-depth here!

We've also created Discord roles for each element; feel free to rep your element in the official Mythaura Discord server!

Beast Sizes

Each beast species in Mythaura has standard ranges for height and weight; a beast's size is determined at birth, influenced in part by genetics from its parents, in part by other non-hereditary factors. All beasts will always fall within this predetermined size range: as shown in the example below, the largest adult Basilisk will never be larger than the smallest adult Ryu.

All beasts will receive stat bonuses and penalties based on how they size up against the species's average size, and can use these stats to strategic advantage in battle.

Read more about the heights, weights, and elements assigned to each beast species here for more info!

Quarter 3 (2023) Rewards Reveal

Our Quarter 3 rewards have been completed and are ready for their public debut! Thank you to the Ko-fi Sponsors who voted on the different Glamour and Companion concepts, we appreciate your support and feedback.

Q3 (2023) Glamour: Tainted Claws

Q3 (2023) Companion: Shimmer Kelp-Dancer

Q3 (2023) Solid Gold Glamour: Kirin

Beast Design Contest

We’re back with another Beast Design Contest! We’re looking forward to all the fantastic creations that this community comes up with.

Here are the parameters:

Each individual can submit one (1) Beast option for consideration

Any species fine (babies included)

Fill out Google form; provide both a picture and the preview code

We’ll pick three winners to have their Beasts featured on the front page for Quarter 4 (April 1 -June 30). Winners will also receive:

1x Beta Key

1x Quarter 3 (2023) Skin: Tainted Claws

1x Quarter 3 (2023) Companion: Shimmer Kelp-Dancer

These rewards will be applied directly to your account.

Submissions for the Beast Design Contest are due by March 15, 2023. The form will close at 11:59pm PST. Winners will be announced in the April 1, 2023 Development Update.

Miscellaneous

3 Companion sponsorship slots added to Ko-fi shop. Reminder that these are one per customer per month and first come first serve.

You can now copy the import code from offspring in our predictor by clicking on the image of the generated offspring.

The creator UI has been cleaned up, moving the settings to a better location, condensing some of the elements, and adding a species info dialog.

Code Log

Mythaura v0.12

Turn cleanup and adds s3 support for demo battler images

Modifies species endpoint to include size & element data

Renames “aura” stat to “focus”

Generates offspring code with predictions

Updates & fixes bugs in battle state management

Includes more data on the Elements endpoint

Fixes bug with updating species data in CMS

Implements support for stat changes on accuracy, critical chance, evasion, damage dealt, and damage taken

Implements support for surge abilities

Implements support for custom ability classes

Adds check & event dispatch for battle resolution

Made some mobile Optimizations

Fixed issues with ability animations in battle

Made adjustments to battle UI

Made progress on turn resolution

Thank You!

We appreciate you sticking through to the end of this month’s updates!

Check back in soon for beast descriptions, so many incredible Ko-fi sponsored items, new quarterly rewards to vote on, expanded information about elements, a deeper look into the movements of Mythaura's cosmos, and so much more.

See you around the Discord!

[uponthemeadow]

All of our berry bushes are done, can you guess which ones will be in the game? Little pots and their sprouts are next!

[pawborough]

Try out our new dual Cat Creator and breeding demo HERE

We're consistently updating it with new patterns and breeds!

More about our project under the cut!

PawBorough is an interactive cat-based RPG currently in development. PawBorough invites users to collect felines of all different stripes, lineages, and colors, breed them together to discover exciting new combinations, go on quests with a unique dungeon crawling system, and build a web of relationships to personalize the player experience.

Players are encouraged to express creativity as they complete quests by embracing and expanding on the story provided for them. PawBorough uniquely incorporates adventuring elements into its gameplay, including inspiration from community storytelling and tabletop adventure games. You as the player will help decide the direction of the sitewide campaign, collectively interacting with our NPCs and driving the story through everyday play.

You will choose which of the seven Boroughs to join, each with their own unique aesthetics and cultural practices. You will be given a camp to build, leveling your cats and expanding through the fictional world as you discover new items, foster relationships, and dress-up your unique felines!

Keep up with our development by following this blog, checking our Kickstarter, or to keep in touch with our growing community and discuss updates, consider joining our Discord.

[dddemigirl]

My first Tamagotchi (^_^) I found it while cleaning out some things.

[cryptcatz]

fave color is purple so been collecting some purple lil guys!! (Cousin Larry was named with the name generator and i love him)

[600lbz]

My favorite chickensmoothie pet :)

[andr0nap-03]

Oooh, really cool dragon designs, Andro! How about you do ones for Otak and Wally next, if youd like?

Also, not me encouraging your alloid brainrot to become worse

id love to but im turbo broke from spending a ton of treasure/gems on apparel and skins for my dragons 😭

[cartoonscientist]

latest breeding experiments

[sparrowvolk]

Having an interesting discussion in my Discord server today about petsite definition and classification! Hopefully my preferred terminology is unambiguous in that we're talking about browser-based games and game-adjacent entities.

Clarifications:

1. Lioden and Flight Rising are petsites. Having pet care absent or having pet care/collection as secondary to main mechanics puts a site in a different category.

2. Dappervolk and Tattered Weave are petsites. Pet care can be secondary to other mechanics as long as it is present and the pets are a core part of the site concept (if you removed them it would require making major changes to the lore, even if they are not central to gameplay).

3. Chicken Smoothie is a petsite. Pet collection must be the core gameplay, but additional mechanics are not needed. Choosing this option means you don't consider #2 or similar to be petsites.

4. Both 2 and 3 constitute petsites, but not the next option.

5. All of the above, plus more. A site which has pet collection or care as a notable part of gameplay, but these need not be the core mechanics. (I personally don't play any games like this)

6-7. Elaboration encouraged!

For extra credit, provide additional examples and counterexamples, and define the boundaries of the terms "pet sim" and "virtual pet game".

[flightrising]

Dragonfire!

[wolvden]

Badger Base, Hunting Changes

Brand new craftable base - Badger!

Hunt in multiple biomes with your hunting parties! Also:

- Retiring now preserves up to 2 other scouted biomes - Seasonal hunting debuffs have been softened - Failed hunts now have a chance of giving a consolation critter carcass - 2 new marking shapes, Sallander and Cougar - Weekly raffle - Weekly special stud

Read more about it in our Development Update #18 news post!

[mythaura-blog]

Development Update - September 2022

Hi all! Miyazaki here, wishing you a happy first day of October and bringing you a recap of what the team accomplished during the month of September 2022. 

Key points covered:

Beast Design Contest Winners

Quarter 2 (2022) Concepts & Voting

Q1 Companion & Glamours in Ko-fi Shop

Early Access Companion: 10/31 Deadline

Reward Lookup System

New NPC

Solid Gold Glamours: Griffin, Unicorn, Dragon

Patreon Supporter Discord Flair

Staff Beast Design Contest

More info available under the cut!

Beast Creator Contest Winners

What an incredible turnout we had for our second Beast Creator Contest, thank you for all your submissions! These entries were so much fun to look through and it was really difficult to only pick three designs, but we’re happy to announce the winners of our September 2022 Beast Creator Contest: DeepSea Dragon, Swiddy_Swooty, and Pandalion!

Our three winners will each have the rewards automatically applied to their accounts, and these three beasts will be featured on the homepage for Quarter 2 (October through December). 

Keep an eye out for our next Beast Creator Contest–we’ll be gathering entries in December to display on our site for Quarter 3 (January through March).

Quarter 2 (2022) Concepts & Voting

It’s the first day of a new Quarter, folks, which means we’ve got new Quarterly Rewards for Sponsors to vote on our Ko-fi page!

Quarter 2 is shaping up to be spooky and ethereal–which concepts would you like to see made into official site items? Sponsors of Bronze level or higher have a vote in deciding. Please check out the Companion post and the Glamour post on Ko-fi to cast your vote for the winning concepts! 

Votes must be posted by October 31, 2022 at 11:59pm PDT in order to be considered.

Ko-fi Shop: Q1 Companion and Glamours Available

All Quarter 1 (2022) Rewards are now listed in our Ko-fi Shop for individual purchase for all Sponsor levels at $5 USD flat rate per unit. As a reminder, please remember that no more than 3 units of any given item can be purchased. If you purchase more than 3 units of any given item, your entire purchase will be refunded and you will need to place your order again, this time with no more than 3 units of any given item. 

Hopefully in the future Ko-fi will offer the functionality to limit purchases per user, but for the time being we will be reviewing orders manually and reaching out to those who disregard these instructions.

★ Gold Imp ★ Glamour: Solid Gold Quetzal ★ Glamour: Motherboard

Early Access Companion: 10/31 Deadline

Mythaura’s Early Access Ko-fi Companion, the Pearlescent Shellsnake, will only be available to Gold, Silver, or Bronze Sponsors who have or had a Sponsorship active on or before 11:59pm PDT on Monday, October 31, 2022! 

As a reminder, the Pearlescent Shellsnake will NOT be available for individual purchase in the Ko-fi Shop later on, so if you are interested in receiving 3 copies of this endangered critter please check out our Ko-fi Sponsor Levels to see what other rewards you can receive for your patronage.

Reward Lookup System

Now that we have both Patreon and Ko-fi rewards for our supporters, we wanted to put together a system for you all to look up all that you’ve accumulated so far. You can find the reward lookup tool at the bottom of our homepage. All Ko-fi Sponsors, Patreon Sponsors, and giveaway/contest winners should have their rewards reflected.

We did our best to populate Patreon data thoroughly, but there were incomplete sections in what we have, especially in regard to sponsored items. Please reach out if you rewards look incorrect or the items you sponsored do not look correct.

Introducing: Jaq!

This enterprising Basilisk runs Mythaura’s largest consignment shop, where he will assist with item sales between players. Jaq has learned quite a bit about the wares and goods in Mythaura while overseeing infinitely large volumes of items move through his shop. This means that he will readily and enthusiastically explain the history and significance of anything you may find on one of his shelves. 

Though he is a widely beloved figure in the community, there are those who would question the legitimacy of a business where people can drop off items without needing to prove their authenticity. To that Jaq says: The burden of success is a heavy one to bear, and not one all are fit to carry! After all, it’s not just anyone who can run a business that props up the businesses of hardworking Mythaurans everywhere. Stop by the shop and see for yourself!

Solid Gold Glamours: Unicorn, Griffin, Dragon

We shared in a previous update that Gold Sponsors would receive not just the Solid Gold Dragon Glamour, but also a Solid Gold Unicorn and a Solid Gold Griffin. Here’s the full lineup for these Gold Sponsor-exclusive Glamours! These are rewarded to Gold Sponsors each month that they have an active Gold Sponsorship. Thank you for supporting Mythaura!

Patreon Supporter Discord Flair

Mythaura’s Patreon Supporters have been around since the very beginning, and we wanted you to be able to show off your early contributions to the site with some special Patreon-exclusive Discord flair. Mythic, Artisan, Scholar, and Archivist roles now all have their own unique flair. We recognize your contributions and thank you for believing in Mythaura from the very beginning!

If you were a Patreon supporter and do not have your correct role assigned on the Discord, please reach out to Koa and she will look into it for you.

Miscellaneous bug fixes/updates

Renamed “Skins” to “Glamours”

Fixed tooltip hover overflow

Fixed button text getting cut off in some spots

Improved the responsiveness of import code fields to make them easier to use on mobile

Added the ability to lock color independent of special

Corrected spelling of color “Cedar”

Staff Beast Creator Contest

You know what, we were so inspired by how much fun your Beast Creator Contest entries were that we decided to have a little inter-staff competition–but this time you vote for which of our designs you like best. It only seemed fair, after getting to be the ones voting on the designs you submitted to us.

What rewards might the winning staff member win, you might ask? Only bragging rights and the knowledge that we created the design that was best loved by our fine userbase here. Maybe getting to pick the movie we watch during our next dev team watch party. A little healthy competition between colleagues keeps things lively.

We’ll keep the votes open until October 31, 2022.

Thank you!

Thanks for sticking through to the end of the recap for our very busy month of September! We wish you a wonderful start to Spooky Season and hope that you are blessed with all your favorite Halloween candies and plenty of time for scary movies.

We’ll see you November 1st with the recap of what we accomplish in September. Hopefully we'll see you around the Mythaura Discord in the meantime!

[uponthemeadow]

The finals for our seed packaging, our nursery pots for bush crops, and our tree bags! Next up, some crops :)

[pawborough]

Our campaign launches on October 5th, 2022, at midnight EST

Find it here!

Feature breakdown below the cut:

Design Your Founders

After choosing one of the seven Boroughs, create your camp founders and name your piece of territory!

Customize

Paw Borough is all about expressing your unique style! On top of dressing your cat up with accessories*, each cat's page will feature a customizable backdrop. Players will  be able to place decor items in the scene, and any image will be resizable, rotatable, and draggable, including the cat!

*Note for development transparency: PawBorough has twenty breeds planned for the site's lifetime. During production, accessory items will be illustrated on all twenty breeds, regardless of the breeds currently available to the player base. This method of production is to ensure an efficient release of breeds, as well as to avoid severely hindering future development!

Because of this, accessories will be relatively limited at the start. We hope extensive decor and backdrop options will help to compensate during this period. Thank you!

A cat's page will also feature highly customizable "role" and "relationship" options! 

A cat's role in your territory can be custom written and featured on the page! Options such as "loner," "leader," and "camp member" are available to foster a player's own ideas. 

For the relationships tab, players can add their cats and, with permission, other players' cats! Relationship groups and individual titles are entirely customizable. Options such as "enemy," "mate," and "family" are available to foster a player's ideas.

Breed

Cats can be selectively chosen to breed new and exciting combinations. Two parents will be able to produce offspring which share their genes and color range.

However, in Paw Borough, a cat can have "primary" and "secondary" breeding characteristics, meant to reference the existence of dominant and recessive genes.

If a cat has a previous ancestry, there is a 20% chance that the color and gene option will be chosen from either the dam or sire's grandparent range. 

A cat's genetic characteristics and history will be traceable in the site library. We hope this mechanic can encourage new and creative breeding strategies for players to obtain their perfect family! 

Create

Create "pelt" and "partial pelt" items to put on your cat! Download our lineart and illustrate your own colors and markings. If you have a specific design or character you'd like to show off, now you can! The possibilities are endless! 

And if you'd really like to take matters into your own hands, you can create an "unclipped" pelt, giving you free rein to illustrate over the lineart and shading of the cat (so long as the illustration remains within the cat's silhouette.) 

The world is your oyster!

You will be able to sell your pelts and other art you make by setting up a shop in the Monarch Gallery! Skip out on buying the supplies and printing pelts yourself, we'll do it for you. You just take the profit!

The Monarch Gallery will also feature site-assisted commission listings. Advertise your portfolio, list what you will create, the timeframe, and choose how many slots you wish to fill.

Players can now commission artists with a site-facilitated delivery system, encouraging users to discover, value, participate, and appreciate the art of the community.

Note for clarity: to discourage players from expecting instant gratification from artists, not appreciating that labor takes time, and to disuade artists from engaging in said unhealthy culture, artists are not allowed to set the timeframe under three weeks, regardless of suspected delivery.This limit is subject to extension depending on player feedback.

Roleplay

Paw Borough is built on the culture of roleplay and imagination. We want our players to create their own worlds! 

In addition to player-driven forums, there is a specialized mechanic for customized private, public, and spectated roleplay! Choose a cat to represent each message, including a "narrator" option. 

During a thread, invite other players to join in, spectate, or keep it to yourselves for secret story elements!

Cook

Cook ingredients for food and decor items! By farming and hunting for raw food items, you can use them for cooking recipes. You may also use this feature to make incense, which can attract new cats with no recorded ancestry to your territory. 

Worn recipe pages can be found throughout Mewmoia... Oh, what's this? Each recipe seems to be handwritten with personal notes; perhaps collecting enough will start to reveal some Mewmoian history... 

Contribute to the Story

We are very excited to present site-guided community storytelling! With this feature, players are given choices on whether to "fulfill" or "answer" tasks requested by NPCs. Every option, including a collective failure or choice to not complete the task, will result in the forwarding of a collaborative site narrative! 

In our example*, players must collectively donate a total of 500 Wicker Baskets to aid the Luna Borough in solving tensions with the Sol Borough. Should it succeed, tensions will lift, and all Sol Borough cats will receive a free feeding! Should it fail, the feud will worsen and characters will begin discussing battle. 

Help NPCs form relationships, start fights, usurp leaders, destroy characters, and experience an ever-growing story through the generations of Mewmoia.

Task requirements will range in variety. Both site-wide NPCs and borough-specific NPCs will have both major and minor storytelling tasks. 

*This storyline example is purely for proof of concept, and is not necessarily indicative of canon tasks which will be presented on the site.

For our campaign, we chose to only showcase features we are certain that successful funding will go towards building, in an effort to remain clear with our backers and to not over-promise.

However, that does not equal the end of our plans! We have so much more in store, and a successful campaign opens the door for us to expand just as we dream to!

A breakdown of all the rewards featured in this video will be posted next ᓚᘏᗢ