PXLPET [Official Launch]: Get your own virtual pet now! 🐱🐶🐸
PXLPET is a community game which is powered trough your comments and engagement. It's about taking care of your own virtual pet. With each of these future blog post you'll have the chance to win a pet which will then find a home on a pixel art canvas. You decide if you want to trade, just collect your new friends or upgrade your pet's home. All trough the power of your comments.
How to Play
Each PXLPET is unique, therefore rare and just waiting to be friends with you. You can become the owner of these cuties by commenting under the most recent PXLPET blog posts. If your comment gets the most upvotes you'll win the pet and your username will be shown above its head. Congratulation you are a proud PXLPET owner! Your pet will from now on live in a lovely video which will be updated regularly. In case you win again you'll get upgrades for your pet. These could be an item or even a house.
Everybody who wants to participate has to resteem the post and at least upvote one comment of another participant. If there is a draw in upvotes the comment author who posted first will win. Since there will be many upvotes in the comment area, commenting could be also lucrative for you. You have one week to participate. After that week the winner will be announced. There are no rules for commenting. You can post images, gifs and jokes. Just be creative and get attention.
You like trading and collecting? Have a chat with a pet owner and decide about the details. If you are a owner and want to trade, let me know and I will update the ownership for the next video. It's up to you if you want to trade your pet for SBD.
The Playground
The playground is pretty empty for now. Hopefully this will change in the future. It's a calming forest and the place where your pet will live and meet friends. This video will be updated on a regular base. Also the environment will change from time to time.
Future of PXLPET.
I think, the rules of this community game will often change in the future. I'll have to look how the game mechanics will turn out and whether they will work in terms of fairness. I'll also for sure add some new things and special events. The deadline for voting may also get bit shorter, so the pixel world will change more frequently. If you have ideas how to improve the game experience feel free to let me know.
PXLPET will also become a social experiment since the space on the canvas is limited and there will possibly be many pet owners who have to share this space. Mechanics to conquer items and houses of other pet owners could be a possibility. You would have the choice if you want to be kind or cruel.
I think PXLPET is a fun project and I hope you are as exited as me to see how this pixel world will evolve. Let's see how it turns out. I hope this experiment gives some value to the Steemit platform and makes it an even better place! Future posts will use this #pxlpet hashtag. To see all updates in your feed there is the possibility to follow me. :)
Let's get started!
I want one soo hard!!!!! You know that!!!! With all my pixels!!!
Ah, I know! But I have to stick to the rules. I can't just give you one because it would be unfair for the other players. Cruel world! :) Thank you for participating!! :)
I'd love to have a PXLPET! 💗💗💗
I think it would be cool if there is a way to declare pet ownership as a sub token on the steem blockchain, much like @biophil created POCKETS as a sub token. Or when the new Steem SMTs are released, make a PXLPET token, release a very limited supply, and have every token associated with one PXLPET! Buy one unique token to get one unique pet!
Also, would be cool if the pets have stats. You may want to expand PXLPETS in the future so they can play together/against each other in a game format. So at a minimum, give each pet a random value for Health, Offense, Defense. Or whatever you decide. :)
I have some ideas sketched out for some Steem related games. I may approach you in the future for some graphics work. You got da skillz!
To anyone who read this far, I don't have fancy graphics or meme creating ability, but I do have ideas, and I do come here Every Day for over 500 days now, commenting and Up voting on lots of Steemit posts. So since I am here anyway, I will definitely be willing and able to care for my PXLPET! Vote for me and I'll take Great Care of my pet!!! 👍
Thank you!!! 💗💗💗
Some great ideas Kenny!
Yes, that sounds pretty cool! But if I would add stats I would have to program a real mmo like game and I think this is quite havy for me at the moment. Maybe I have to collaborate with a more advanced programmer at some point. The PXLPET token also sounds interesting! Thanks for your inspiration! I hope the game will be fun the way it is for now! I am really excited how everthing will work out. I really have to think of some special event or something. :)
Sound like we need a Discord group to discuss some of these ideas! I think we would come up with a few good ideas and maybe a few developers/designers interested in it as well.
I hope you get the pet of your dreams! =) STEEM ON
You just have to vote for this guy. @kenny-crane, you're awesome. i actually don't know how to set my UPVOTEs to 1% but you're definitely worth the 100% even though mine's just $0.01. I hope you win. Goodluck
Hopefully you get a pxlpet! You deserve to have one my friend! Upvoted this for you!
I know you would make the perfect owner for this perfect pet! I hope you get it Kenny!
This is really beautiful!
As a holder of many cryptokitties this is totally something that I would like to own, nurture and take care of it too!
However, for that I need you. Yeah, I am talking to you! I refreshed a lot of my voting power and I will use that voting power to upvote people that will help me to win one PXLPET. Bear in mind it's about the number of upvotes, not about the highest potential rewards! After upvoting reply to this comment to get your reward.
Thank you and I hope the best one win!
I voted for you! 👍 And my vote moved you to the top of the comment list for maximum visibility. 😁
I found out about the PXLPET project from your other post. Thanks for that! I also decided to comment here and state my desire for a PXLPET. I hope I get one, but if I do not, then I hope it's YOU who gets one!
Good luck and best wishes!
Good luck to you!
Thank you! That's a quite nice campaign. Haha! :)
I want one.
Interesting. I would love one. Maybe a fox. 🦊
Hmm maybe I could accept wishes of the winners. For now I wanted to give away pets randomly so you can't decide how it will look like. But maybe one day. :)
Cool! Well out of what you've created so far I really like the turtle and the stag. In case I win :D
Haha, okay noted!
Why not incorporate having other people feed your pet with upvotes? This kind of thing would encourage empathy and people taking care of other people.....
That's a cool idea! But than it must be possible that also something bad can happen to the pet right? I mean, what happens when there are no upvotes and it's not feeded? Game Over?
This is a great idea!
Omg I love them.
Dear PXL Pet,
Come home with me!!
:)
I went to sleep last night dreaming of a pet "mini" turtle! I would love to have a pet turtle form this game and lovely community. And here is why:
Turtle Symbolism
"The turtle symbolism is characterized by the association with the Earth and earth symbols of groundedness and patience:"
"The turtle is also linked to the spirit of the water and the fluid nature of emotions." - source
you are not a good person ... XD
jajaaa
Is this minis can be trade too like crypto kitties?
I do not really know how CryptoKitties work but if the owner of a pet tells me he traded his pet I can update the ownership. I just have to change the name above the pets name in the next video.
I was wondering when someone would make a Steemit-based pet project :)
This is how I envision my pet, once I've taught him how to be a good mad scientist (just, you know... more PXLier ;) ):
I do imagine the principle behind pet distribution could be adjusted, as it can be gamed pretty easily by a small group getting together and agreeing to upvote a specific persons comment, and then distributing the pets between them, or just someone with a botnet.
But that can always be adjusted if it's obviously happening.
As for game mechanics... I think a bot could be set up to watch for comments/posts of people with a PXLpet, and then keep a leaderboard and award a small upgrade to the pet of the person who was the most active on Steemit.
Like a little Award the pet can carry with it.. that gets bigger...and bigger.. the more the person wins, until it has to leave it somewhere in the background. the award of course has the name of the user and an image of his/her pet on it at that point ;)
Haha, that would be a funny pet. Thanks for your inspiring ideas. This game is something like an experiment. Let's see if these groups getting together. Like you said that always can be adjusted. I like the idea of an leaderboard. But I have to look up some things since I never made a bot before. I also thought that the items should show the name of the owner. I will have a thought on your ideas! Maybe there will be an update in future posts. Thank you!
You can always "bribe" a seasoned steemit developer with a PXLpet or upgrade to get him to program a bot ;)
No problemo, love to help :)