PetPet Park (lost online MMO game based on Neopets; 2008-2014)

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 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".

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.

Restoration efforts

Two groups currently exist to rebuild petpet park with different focuses and objectives

online version

Petpet park rebuild started in 2021 by cosmicpopstar

technical skills unknown,

offshoot of petpet project due to us unwilling to make a online version

Offline version

Petpet Project rebuilding under Project X by kassegathd44k

Started in 2014 by Admin gab as a memorial in 2014, early efforts were rooted in preserving and saving availible files on the web and seeking others doing the same early days didn't result in much of a actual game rebuild. many attempts

were done to preserve maps by youtube videos and etc

but the discovery of the maps by nary. made many of these

obsolete but the tutorial map.

Drama between the groups are killing the games survival as a whole

both groups are friendly unfriendly with each other and dividing the petpet park rebuild effort isn't being very successful

and making game restoration difficult.

Petpet Projects stance on community files

We believe that any group that finds files should also be fully rewarded for their efforts as well as how to get INTO the files if their unable.. this means properly crediting the group that found them in mentioning them, as well as sharing precissely how to put them together, and or etc. we do not believe individual artists work who redrawn art should be unless the artist agrees to it.

Petpet Parks rebuilds stance on community files

any files created or findable by them get NO credit at all for the hosting party, and are simply caled communty files

a line in the sand

in september 2022 a leak of neopets accounts was noted in the news and as a result, Petpet park Rebuild via the reddit user neo_truths recieved a list contained the following which petpet project was also able to obtain through alternate sources

petpet park petpet art for all six petpets(Pinixy,dyrm, kassegat, dipni, hifflo and oukin ) in swf form for base colors, includes four beta colored pinxiys. THe stock colored ones are availbile on archive.org

early beta art and animations for the petpets

a selection of clothes from the store wearable by the petpets

its notable that these files are NOT easily viewed even if you have flash and require extensive assembly in animate cc to even view.

the assembly was done on petpet project( and shows many of these petpets in action. Petpet park rebuilds discovery of the files is in their progress video.

the second file cache

In the video also noted was a few games that petpet project was not able to look at , nor will petpet park rebuild share with petpet park project to attempt to restore to our knowledge or other sources. the source of this cache was not found by petpet project and while it looks completely viable to save, it appears that the world will not get to play these games until the needed skill to access them is obtained.

Games

Frantic farmer

Wardrobe wars

Beta Maps

early beta maps of petpet park were teased but were not shown whole and look to be zone files for petpet park to

load under openspce MMO engine.

Misc. content

photos of various quest pieces and etc are known about from the video

Petpet park games that were reskinned for Neopets

Neeterball now known as Pakiko- game was located and is archived

this file was found on neopets.com but isn't loadable at the moment, preservation efforts are underway for this

game.

Invasion blastoids

the original game in the park was called sword of the cyodake king and is accessable using the following url:

http://images.neopets.com/games/g1330_v0_90432.swf

some quirks appear as ohter files were edited for the neopets game but this hopefully can be fixed.

other games that are found but not yet playable

Boat Blasters(neopets game : Coal war tactics) accessable by using V0 as the swf version for the game on neopets.

University exam was located and is currently being restored.

Games found on archive.org

Stack happy

Bonbon pickup

Games found on other sites:

Castle defender (on flashpoint) .

Unreleased games:

Files were found reflecting a reskin of the game Castle defender

called/ "pharows last stand" but was not looking

completed.

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Closure

In 2014, Neopets was acquired by the educational franchise JumpStart. 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.

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.

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.

Gallery

Gameplay footage of the site.