Vkitty has came a long way since the day we created it. I never imagined it would go this far- Everything you can dream of, I put it on a little list, and we start working on it. Slowly but steadily, we make features, and add on to it, and continue, until we have a full feature. It seems not to be as slow as I thought, as I looked back, and wow! Lots of things in just small time. Everyday a new thing is added, and its getting better and better! We started with a simple design, and some ajax, created in a single folder in “Live Mesh” then it went live. After we made it live, it just grew and grew, now we have a nice little site, adding different things every day.
The image to our left is an image of the sidebarm the head of it shows the name, under it shows the picture of the pet, under that shows stats. After the kitten grows into a cat, there will be stats such as “attack”,”defence”, and such. These will be fore battle, which was a very famous feature of the old Vkitty. Young kittens and Old Cats will not have these features, due to young kittens being to weak to fight, and old ones to old, not having the same reactions as a young kit, when they could fight easily, just like normal cats in real life. If you drink a potion called “Fountain of youth potion” (not availible yet) an old cat would turn into normal cat (able to fight) and normal cat would turn into kitten.
Under the stats, there are quicklinks, to the petlist, petsearch, memberlist, membersearch. These would be used to quickly access other people’s profiles. Under all of that, there would be inventory and your amount of ‘CC’. CC stands for Cat Cash, and currently there are no ways to earn this, but we believe that we’ll have games, random events, shops, and more ways to make Cat Cash. The inventory you can push an arrow to see the next item, its only 1 item veiw, and I think that we will make it if you click the item, a box will come up with options, descriptions, and more of the item. Items will be used to feed, equip, heal, and more of your pet. Currently, items are not availible, as there are no way to obtain them, but items do exist, in the database. Other features include the Profiles, it isn’t quite finished, but it shows the owner’s name, owner’s pet name, and a picture of the pet, also including the gender of the pet. There is also administration, only availible to administrators. In the administration control panel, you can see the registered users, and if they are logged in. You can view items (names, descriptions, price, id) and you can add items. There is also a place where you can view news, and add it. News is located on the front page, name of it in bold, then the post. Its a simple, but easy-to-use system! Another one of the cool features we’re working on is the Cat Generator, so far we have the URL code, and SQL code, but not the actual creator, that the User’s can use. But you can still use the URL code. The url for all patterns and colors: http://vkitty.co.cc/getcats.php?color=black&pattern=eyespot,tail,sockfeet,belly,spotted,stripes&pattern_color=white,white,white,white,white,orange&age=kitten
The url is put together like this, the first one “Color=black” thats the main cat color, there is tan, yellow, orange, black, white, and grey. The next “pattern” consists of patterns on the cats. There is eyespot, tail, sockfeet, belly, spotted, skunkstripe, ears, and stripes. After that is “Pattern_color” which is the color of the patterns, the colors are olive, cinnamon, darkgrey, silver, lemon, black, white, gold, pumpkin, brown, and darkbrown. Last, but definately not least, “age”, there is only three choices, Kitten, Cat, and Old. Between these choices you can create millions of combinations – and its quite the good thing. All we need to do now is create the actual generator to make it a ton simplier. Also one thing about this update, gives more than just freedome of choice, and uniqueness, it also gives a better look of cats, unlike the originals. Take a look at this image…
This is the “tabby” with the generator you can create such better images, note the “MS. Paint” feel from this, as it was created with M.S. Paint. Drawn by none other than me, its terrible, the lines are rugged, and it looks so terrible, but with the generator.. You can create so much better! Take a look at that same cat, created with the generator,click here to see.
Note, the lines are much smoother, the black stripes blend in a bit better, the shadowing looks much more realistic, and more. And its still the same tabby – but much better. Plus, its much easier, instead of me spending countless amount of time creating each and every single type of cat, the generator layers it, and its so much easier to make any type of cat you want. I love the generator. I can’t wait until the full easy-to-use one is out, whenever Ben creates it.
Lets talk about upcoming features now, there are so many of them. I’ll describe a few.. There will be the marketplace, with the official shops, such as the “General Shop” holding items such as cat food, cat care items, litterbox, and other common household-pet-care items. There will also be the “Battle shop” holding items such as armour and weapons for cats, but not battle potions, although battle potions are for battle, the potion store will be there for them, because they are potions. The potion store will have other things such as “fountain of youth potion” and “poison” or things like “Healing potion”. There will be multiple things like this. The biggest store theres no question about it, the clothing store, there will be hundreds of different types of clothing, we haven’t even finished adding all the cloths! We have about 6 different main types (skirt, pants, shorts, shirt, sweater, collar), multiplied to about 10 different types of colors (red, orange, purple, pink, blue, green, tie-dye, pokadot, ancient, flower) and that alone is 60 different items, plus other things! Wow! I’m not sure the other shops combined will have the same amount of items and combinations of clothing that the clothes store will have! On top of the official stores there will be the user-owned shops, where users can sell their own items at their own price. Another way we will make money on Vkitty. On the quick side of money, there will also be games, a good way to make money. But sadly we don’t know how we will create this because we have no game makers, but we’ll find a way. We could possibly go into the idea of basic, PHP/Text games. But those ain’t that good. We’ll find a way. Other future features include the disown and other-player pet adoption, where you can disown your pet where another person can adopt it, or you can adopt other’s pets yourself. Also, if you do not feed/take care of your pets and the happiness goes to 0% or the hunger goes to 100%, it will run away and go to the pound, and you cannot adopt it yourself again 😦 So don’t starve your pet to death or let him be bored! The last update I’ll bore you with, is the profile preferences update. I’m hoping Ben will create it where you can put your name, nickname, gender, and other things on your profile about you. This is not a promise, but I’ll try for it!
Alright i think thats enough for this post, hope you enjoyed reading about Vkitty current&future features. Enjoy your day~kat!
Alright I’ll show you the image of the old one, thank you to nightgunner5 (Ben) for the screenshot of both the old and the new cats. To the left there is a picture of the old version, personally, my favorite.
Now to show you a picture of the new cat. Which will be to our right. It is a bit more blendid but the shadowing is off, as it resembles a bevel instead of shadow. The eyes seem to be very odd and scary in my opinion, and I do not like them. The colours seem to be a bit burned on the new one and the old one looked a bit better colourwise. Thats about all I have to say about the new and old. Now for the future updates…
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