Abstract: Virtual pets have slowly evolved over the years since the once rampant popularity of Tamagotchi. What were once simple pixilated pets with basic needs have grown into more complicated digital creatures. They've served a welcome niche of people who love th...
Abstract: Ever since Tamagotchi burst onto the scene in 1996, virtual pets have been consistently popular. The genre had humble beginnings, with tiny dot-matrix screens and limited interactions with the pets themselves, but today’s virtual pets, Nintendogs fo...
Abstract: The appeal of a virtual pet depends, almost exclusively, on how connected you feel with the creature. Whether a digital dog, or cat, or make-believe monster, you have to feel like youre really able to interact with the animal if youre going to have a...
Abstract: The life and times of Crapface. It’s genuinely difficult to review a game like Animates, which is a Tamagotchi-style virtual pet game from developer DreamCatcher. The difficulty comes from the fact that Animates is obviously for five-year-olds. If y...
