Aywas - A somewhat new take on the whole petsite thing
Posted: 19 Sep 2010 07:15 am
Aywas! I'm not really sure how to describe this site, but it's cool. It's been around for close to a year now and still going strong. Until now, it's been in Alpha/Beta and has had a looot of stuff changed around. It is, as of now, in its final version, and is currently in the process of implementing a bunch of cool features and revamping some of the older pet art.
Here are some of the pets. There are a LOT of them. It's more like Pokemon than your traditional pet site--you get to have pretty much unlimited pet slots (though you do have to hunt out items to exchange for more slots, but it's not terribly hard) and you've got hundreds of different pet colorations on over 20 pet species bases. You're not expected to catch 'em all, though of course, getting as many as you can is one of the possible ways to play the site. Most pet colors are based off of real animals, though there are quite a few fantasy colors as well. Above are the Civit Melo, Honey Pot Ant Insi, Dracula's Kiss Vyne, and Toxic Phanto.
One of the main features of the site is "Exploring." You get a pet and run around the world map, fighting through areas one at a time by doing some (admittedly rather repetitive) monster-killing quests. It takes a long time--it's not meant to be something done in a day--but you slowly gain access to towns, each of which has a mini-game/feature located in it, such as fishing, mining, etc. And by opening up new areas, you gain access to new pets to catch. Completing the explore quests aren't mandatory, though, since many other site features can still be accessed without doing so.
Other than that, there are human avatars, though they were introduced recently and haven't gotten many clothing items. There's also a version of petpets. There are also petpages, like Neo, though they're down for maintenance right now. By far, the coolest and most innovative feature of the site, however, is the ability for anyone to make new pet colors. The pet PSDs are available for free download, and anyone can edit them with custom colors/markings or even custom lineart edits. All the site colorations are user-made, resulting in quite a lot of variation:
There are cute pets, sparkly pets, natural pets, mutant monster pets, robotic pets, and everything in between. If you want more of a certain type of pet, all you have to do is design some, and if they're good enough, they'll be accepted and added to the site.
You can also have your own custom pets. They do require the site's cash currency to make, but it can be traded or bought from other users, so you don't *have* to spend cash if you don't want to. It's just faster. These are some of my custom pets:
You can tell that my taste tends a bit toward the monstery. Regardless of what kind of aesthetic you have, you can make it happen with customs. That last one is a completely custom pet not based on any existing species. It's super expensive, but possible to make your own original species as a pets here and breed/distribute them to other people. Oh yeah, there's breeding too. Did I mention that?
Anyway, I've rambled on long enough about this, so if that sounds interesting to you, why not sign up? (or click the banner in my sig, that's cool too) The site is slightly chaotic now with a lot of changes being implemented, but it's coming up on its first birthday AND on Halloween, and it's likely there will be fun events handing out easier-than-usual-to-obtain Custom Pets for both. It's a good time to join.
Here are some of the pets. There are a LOT of them. It's more like Pokemon than your traditional pet site--you get to have pretty much unlimited pet slots (though you do have to hunt out items to exchange for more slots, but it's not terribly hard) and you've got hundreds of different pet colorations on over 20 pet species bases. You're not expected to catch 'em all, though of course, getting as many as you can is one of the possible ways to play the site. Most pet colors are based off of real animals, though there are quite a few fantasy colors as well. Above are the Civit Melo, Honey Pot Ant Insi, Dracula's Kiss Vyne, and Toxic Phanto.
One of the main features of the site is "Exploring." You get a pet and run around the world map, fighting through areas one at a time by doing some (admittedly rather repetitive) monster-killing quests. It takes a long time--it's not meant to be something done in a day--but you slowly gain access to towns, each of which has a mini-game/feature located in it, such as fishing, mining, etc. And by opening up new areas, you gain access to new pets to catch. Completing the explore quests aren't mandatory, though, since many other site features can still be accessed without doing so.
Other than that, there are human avatars, though they were introduced recently and haven't gotten many clothing items. There's also a version of petpets. There are also petpages, like Neo, though they're down for maintenance right now. By far, the coolest and most innovative feature of the site, however, is the ability for anyone to make new pet colors. The pet PSDs are available for free download, and anyone can edit them with custom colors/markings or even custom lineart edits. All the site colorations are user-made, resulting in quite a lot of variation:
There are cute pets, sparkly pets, natural pets, mutant monster pets, robotic pets, and everything in between. If you want more of a certain type of pet, all you have to do is design some, and if they're good enough, they'll be accepted and added to the site.
You can also have your own custom pets. They do require the site's cash currency to make, but it can be traded or bought from other users, so you don't *have* to spend cash if you don't want to. It's just faster. These are some of my custom pets:
You can tell that my taste tends a bit toward the monstery. Regardless of what kind of aesthetic you have, you can make it happen with customs. That last one is a completely custom pet not based on any existing species. It's super expensive, but possible to make your own original species as a pets here and breed/distribute them to other people. Oh yeah, there's breeding too. Did I mention that?
Anyway, I've rambled on long enough about this, so if that sounds interesting to you, why not sign up? (or click the banner in my sig, that's cool too) The site is slightly chaotic now with a lot of changes being implemented, but it's coming up on its first birthday AND on Halloween, and it's likely there will be fun events handing out easier-than-usual-to-obtain Custom Pets for both. It's a good time to join.