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=engine and technical specifications=
=engine and technical specifications=
Petpet park was built using openspace and smartfox server and used mostly at the time standard mmo practices, but petpets do not die, nor have a health bar to indicate injury or need for medical attention. Both smartfox server and openspace still exist, but no new games since 2014 have been shown on the gallery for openspace with the park being the last one. The only game found so far still using this engine is The Mapoosa Clan <ref>http://www.mapoosa.com/</ref> game on checking the gallery. <ref>http://openspace-engine.com/showcase</ref>
Petpet park was built using openspace and smartfox server and used mostly at the time standard mmo practices, but petpets do not die, nor have a health bar to indicate injury or need for medical attention. Both smartfox server and openspace still exist, but no new games since 2014 have been shown on the gallery for openspace with the park being the last one. The only game found so far still using this engine is the Marsoopa clan game on checking the gallery. <ref>http://openspace-engine.com/showcase</ref>


=files currently recovered=
=files currently recovered=

Revision as of 22:58, 1 May 2019

Petpetpark.png

The game's logo.

Status: Lost

The virtual pet website Neopets has had a couple of spinoffs over the years, whether they be games on the site or just different websites or apps altogether, including The Last Smiley, Neopets Mobile and PetPet Park. PetPet Park was opened in October 2008 by Neopets and Nickelodeon Kids & Family Virtual Worlds Group[1] and focused on the Neopets' companions, Petpets.

Before it opened in October 2008, it started as a mini-plot in Neopets, where Neopians would go on missions to help agents "make sure any Petpets crossing over to Neopia arrive at Petpet Park safely".[2]

Gameplay

The game was similar to Neopets, with players having the ability to customize and feed their virtual pets. There was also 9 species of Petpets to choose from, such as Oukins, Petpets that are calm for the most part but can use a shriek to call other Oukins, or Pinixies, a very energetic species of Petpets, who are almost always doing things related to exercise.

THe game has multiple revisions(3 revions were done to the HUD) and early on showed four petpet petpet slots, but only one ever became useful to player and was remvoed in later addtions. THe petpets also had stats that never got used. according to creators of the game, they never made a mmo before and many things that mmos had in the era, did not exist in this game.


decline in playerbase

the game from 2009 to 2012 approximately gained a new area to explore each month and this early kept players interest in the game, but later on the games life, it shifted to a school based theme(magic, adventure, art, nature,gadgetry) which while on the surface sounded great, were mostly fetch quests for fruits and things for your garden and felt to many players like the game was on life suppport. Another factor was viacom actually closed the park for jumpstart and assumed that most of the park players also read neopets, so all news was posted to the neopets boards about the game and very little news was posted on the park site itself about its closure, leading to a lot of anger in the park community on its closure, a good 70% of the playerbase not in neopets did not know it was closing other than by word of mouth in the game because the site was not updated or posted that it was closing.


engine and technical specifications

Petpet park was built using openspace and smartfox server and used mostly at the time standard mmo practices, but petpets do not die, nor have a health bar to indicate injury or need for medical attention. Both smartfox server and openspace still exist, but no new games since 2014 have been shown on the gallery for openspace with the park being the last one. The only game found so far still using this engine is the Marsoopa clan game on checking the gallery. [3]

files currently recovered

around 150 megs of files were recovered using the archive.org's wayback machine including most of the base petpet files, required wireframe and some park games were also found, these are uploaded to bluemaxima's flashpoint and are currently playable. This instantly restored the pinixy, hiffolo, dipni, and oukin avatars and movements. The other petpets are being rebuilt from raster images and put into the correct vector format for the game to accept them as saved.

-games saved on neopets in reskinned form=

Neopets brought over several of the games in reskinned form and traces of the old game can be found in previous swf files.


Petpet pair up - advertising for the game, no longer has front artwork but playable

Match the petpet-same as above

Fairies folly- you need to goto the parks beta page for this one- still works

coal war tactics- reskinned version of boat blasters(no petpet artwork found in swf)

Blastoids- loading earlier verions of the flash file reveals original music, artwork and backgrounds, originally sword of the khyrodake king.

Pakiko- near identical to the game Neeterball in the park with a neopet in place of the original character, original character found in early swfs.




Closure

In 2014, Neopets was acquired by the educational franchise JumpStart.[4] Many things would be moved to a different place, but Petpet Park was not included in this group of things included in the move, as stated in a news post by Neopets on September 9th, 2014. The game then closed down on the 18th.[5]

No playable versions of the game have surfaced since then, and in May 2017, Neopets stopped paying for the domain, and the site's current state is an advertising page unrelated to Neopets.[6]

However, Petpet Park may not be unplayable forever. As of 2019, Neopets fans have started a project to make a "rewritten" version of the game (as with games like Toontown Online and its "rewritten" successor). However, they have not shared a playable version of the game and are still in the middle of creating content for this new version of the game.[7]

Gallery

Gameplay footage of the site.

References