Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter

Re:Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter by RugnirViking on Thursday November 21, 2019 @02:30PM (#21598428)

Personally, I think a little more feedback into what effect each action has would be good. I couldn't figure out if the buttons did anything at all except change the animation. Perhaps a status bar showing the hunger/thirst/boredom going up or whatever.

The animations and the aestetic are great though!

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Re:Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter by AllanHoustonSt on Thursday November 21, 2019 @02:52PM (#21598722)

I thought clicking around different combinations of buttons to discover what would happen was part of the fun. I kept trying to kill it to no avail.

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Re:Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter by Loughla on Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:48PM (#21600598)

I'm actually laughing out loud at that statement.

>What a neat game, let's see what it does. Nah. Let's kill it.

Humans. So weird.

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Re:Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter by clarkey252 on Friday November 22, 2019 @04:15AM (#21604069)

I think that this is supposed to be similar to the classic tamagotchi's off of the 90's. There were no status bars (like a real pet) and figuring it out was part of the charm . I do think that if the pet is really hungry/thirsty/tired there should be an a different animation, like pointing to mouth for hunger.

I agree animations and aesthetic are awesome (much better than the original LCD pixel Tamagotchi's).

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Re:Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter by jboy55 on Thursday November 21, 2019 @11:01PM (#21602304)

just put debug=1 into the location bar.

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Re:Show HN: Virtual pet game made for my daughter by bluejedi on Sunday November 24, 2019 @09:22AM (#21620577)

I did it, no wonder it has exhausted face, the fatigue bar is too high

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