![[Dopcom Creechers - epiglottal-axolotl-20240302145957620.png]] ## What's your Cohost Link? [epiglottal-axolotl](https://cohost.org/epiglottal-axolotl) ## What's the thing? A mid-2000s style retro virtual pet site! Primarily inspired by my memories of Neopets as a kid, but a friend of mine forced me to join Pixel Cats' End recently and that has been an influence as well. Once the site is live (ETA maybe april or may?), it will be possible to conjure eggs and magical artifacts using alchemical reagents, incubate the eggs until they hatch, feed them and decorate their rooms to bring out their elemental powers, and release them into the wild to obtain more reagents. There will be an open player economy with item trades and some sort of as-of-yet-undetermined exploration mechanics as well. Currently, there's a pre-alpha version where users can adopt pets with pseudorandom numerical IDs that will mature over the course of a few weeks (to put in your forum signature and watch them grow up). However, this is mostly separate from the intended final project except for some shared art assets. ## Link the thing! https://dopcom.net/creechers