DaRule

This topic is a bit old but looking at the news on the site, the owner seems to have abandoned it 5+ years ago due to it not being profitable. Realistically speaking, there is no recovering from this no matter how passionate the (small?) remaining user base for it feels. All good things come to an end someday, sadly.

Then your scenario is a bit more understandable to me as you actually suffered a loss. So sorry to hear that, Shex! Also, adorable art!

There are definitely sites that are copies of Neopets, especially older ones. There is a difference between being inspired by a site and making an almost absolute copy.

How is VPL benefiting from TGL at all? They come to this thread and see the admins here trashing it, and It persuades them to not even check it out.

You are missing the point Digital, that base you were reaching out to on Twitter only existed because of VPL and TGL is a copy of VPL, a place for people to take refuge, and to ignore the efforts cpvr put into it regardless of what happened is bitter.

Carlos isn't benefiting from TGL at all though whereas TGL inherited most of its community from VPL. cpvr literally paved the way for TGL and for the admins here to just tear him down because his personal life got in the way seems kind of cold and spiteful, and I am not really sure what their goal is in this regard.

There appears to be some bitterness between the admins here and cpvr but I can vouch that cpvr is a good guy. We don't know the personal and real life circumstances behind what happened but this community would not even exist had it not been for cpvr since a large amount of those members moved here. And let's not proclaim that this forum itself is hugely popular and booming, because it isn't either and it is a bad look having the admins trashing another site publicly, a site they owe a lot to quite frankly...

Beautiful drawing, jak! It looks like you paid a lot of attention to detail and it definitely paid off!

I am personally super excited about this! I really like cpvr-- he is an awesome guy and really cared about his community.

You can now rename your pet if you have bonded with it enough:

Sorry to hear that happened, tavs! It sucks when a site just suddenly disappears after being attached to it.

A new creature, Gamanto, has been added!

We have added the first infestation challenge, Gabba War! Challenges are much more difficult than regular explorations, so make sure you are prepared. Winning this exploration will give you a very special reward! Note: To unlock this, you will need to have previously cleared the Alpha 3-3 exploration.

Only 7 days left until our open alpha! We have been focusing hard on polishing the game, fixing bugs, and even starting work on some post-alpha content (which has net-new features not in the game yet). Please keep in mind that what you will see in the alpha is only scratching the surface of what we are trying to accomplish.

Not super frequently, but we have a lot of Excel templates we maintain, so it has its use cases. I try to stay away from it as much as possible though when there is a better solution

VB6 was my first as well, still useful to this day sadly

New preview of the battle system:

First of all, thank you for the compliments! The game is designed with mobile-first in mind, so that is an accurate assessment. It is meant to be played casually, not take a huge chunk out of your day.

A preview of our pet color changing feature: https://twitter.com/ExabyssGame/status/1214717835559108608?s=20

Thank you so much for the positive feedback! We have been going at it over the past year+, so we are excited to finally present what we have been working on!

Just announced -- our open alpha will begin February 2nd!

Then I am assuming the 16 premium accounts on that stats page are yearly premium. So 16 x 50 equals 800 minus maybe 120 for hosting and 15 for domain. Why not use some of those earnings to grow the site? Gotta invest in business

Just curious -- if you are running your game as a business with micro-transactions/premium currency, then why not pay the artists?

These look adorable!

Updated topic with the story line behind the game. As you can tell, we have also re-branded the game.