Recent content by Celosia

@Bedouin I've just sent you a friend request. I'm Sunlit#4577. :) The artwork for Eqcetera looks beautiful and I noticed you made it mobile responsive, which is awesome. I use my phone quite a lot to access the web games I play. Unfortunately not all of them feature responsive design...

Hey all. @StarSea, I see! So now, you're working on your first official pet/sim game, like myself? How exciting. :)   PHP is mentioned often here, so I'm guessing it's the server side language of choice for the browser pet/sim game genre? I've been using Node, although Laravel interests me as...

@StarSea Nice to meet you. :)  Slow development is better than none! How are you liking your development and what was it like when you first started? Did you have any prior knowledge in programming?  I started learning JavaScript just over a year ago, not knowing anything about it other than...

Hello. Who else out there is developing a game alone? I am and I feel like I could benefit from having developer friends. I have been doing all the planning, research, programming and design work for my web app, learning as I go. I am working on the bare bones of my game, and at this time...

I started off with a concept I've dreamt of bringing to life for years. Now I'm 5 months into learning my languages of choice and have just begun building a basic UI, registration & login system as my first few steps into development. I am very motivated and excited for the future because...

Just wanted to come back and say thanks for the responses. I'm sticking to what I've committed to learning already. My ideal game will be similar to a breeding sim with extensive lore unlocked via questing system. Animals' images will be dynamically generated within a limited range of "colours"...

So I have a couple of questions pertaining to pet site development. Is there a particular backend language that is best suited for developing a pet site? And is Node.js viable for developing pet sites? I've already chosen to learn Node and I'd like to use it on the backend for my project but...

I think you'd reach out to a wider audience if your game's animals don't have expiry dates, but if for example survival is an objective of your game then it wouldn't make much sense if they never died. I'd say go with what would make most sense to the core themes of your game. If you wanted...

It's BeastKeeper.com without the s, and it's been out of beta for a long time so maybe it should go on the other list? There's an upcoming game called BeastEon by the same developers. Not sure if you'd like to include it but the dev blog is here: http://beasteon.tumblr.com/

Hey! Welcome back to the community :) It seems you have quite a lot of experience under your belt working on pet sites. I've simply been a player following the industry as it has evolved for over a decade. I used to lurk VPL until it went down one day as well and like you I'm glad I found this...

I loved the old party quests from Maplestory. They required you to have a party of ~6 players, they were timed and separated into stages. Players HAD to work together to complete the different challenges/puzzles each stage presented, thus communication was necessary, often especially from the...

It's hard to say. I haven't played a game that gives you a wide variety of choice like Neopets in a long time. If we're talking this type of petsite, then both OR fantasy. If we're talking the type of pet game that focuses on one species or type of creature such as Flight Rising (where the only...

In my experience, no game can escape becoming boring eventually. Having said that if the community is active enough, I tend to hang around a site's forums long after I've stop playing the game. While I am actively participating in gameplay, it motivates me to see active owners who frequently...