yaypets

and only 2 days to go before the first challenge starts! Come on Vapos! We are waiting!

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Previous announcement:

For Dearest hunters:
If you miss our prior notice about our decision to change the old gameplay, please read our previous journal here: yaypets.deviantart.com/journal… Now, let's spend a few minutes to read our new fully written concept of Yaypets: yaypets.deviantart.com/journal… and please continue to read how to register yourself and other important FAQs here: yaypets.deviantart.com/journal… We'll start our first challenge on 15th October, so please hurry and join us now! The first ten registered hunters (not just members) will get a journal feature on emmil account.

For those who have supported us with money in our previous game play, you'll get advantages as followed:

1.)
     A 5 star level 1a animal of your choice.
     A 4 star level 1b animal of the same rank with the 5 star level 1a animal.

2.)
     A 3 star level 1a animal of your choice.

3.)
     A 3 star level 1a animal of your choice.

4.)
     A 3 star level 1a animal of your choice.

5.)
     A 2 star level 1a animal of your choice.

This offer is valid in September & October 2010 only. If those people register themselves as legal hunters on later months, they will lose the exclusive offer and will start with 1 level 1a animal without any stars.

For our affiliates:
1.) Please unwatch this main account and please watch and become a member of Yayland instead. If you're a group, please watch us from your main account.
2.) Your group/club account will be displayed on our blog foot note.

Any questions?
Please write them here or on the FAQs journal. We'll be testing everything together, but at least the ball has finally started rolling now! I'll see you soon at Yayland Bye!


Regards,
emmil

The following rules have been rewritten on 27th September 2010 to fit the new gameplay:


Q: How do we join/start playing this game?
A: Here are few steps you need to do:
_{1.) Watch Yayland & join the group as Member.
You can unwatch yaypets if you want, that will be fine since the group account is actually where we will play our games. Our members will submit their pet arts and challenge entries there. yaypets is only used to keep the main rules, facts and reference arts on its journals.
2.) Choose 1 of any level 1a animal species that you like from this list: yaypets.deviantart.com/journal… and draw it yourself based on its reference and description. You can give it any patterns and any color combinations that you like.
3.) Upload the art to your DA gallery (NO SCRAP FOLDER!) and write its name as your deviation title please.
4.) Please submit it to our group's gallery.
5.) Congratulation! You are now a legal hunter in Yayland! You and your pets are officially registered here: yayland.deviantart.com/blog/35…
6.) Note: The arts submitted to our group will need approvals of emmil and Shin-Senpuu We have the right to reject the submission if it fails to follow the guideline of our animal species. You can only use your personal DA account to register yourself, not a group/club account.}


Q: Do we need to pay to play this game?
A: No.


Q: Can we draw it our pet from different angle, view, style with various mediums?
A: You can draw it with manga style, american hero style, realistic style... etc, just make sure it's not abstract or cubism... The point is we still can see, for example, a Hamchoochoo as a Hamchoochoo, not just a hamster art. For the submissions, you can draw it from 3/4 front view only. However, when you draw it as fanarts, you may draw it from different other views. You can draw it traditionally or digitally, but photo manipulation is definitely not allowed.


Q: Can we give our pets names...?
A: Sure. But keep in mind whether you name it Marry or John, our animals don't actually have any genders. How they breed still remains a big secret for all hunters, except the guild chief.


Q: What is a challenge?
A: We'll throw a bi-weekly challenge which will be announced every 15th and 30th of each month on our group blog. The challenge itself can be a various thing to do that require you to draw, write or anything else that I think will be fun, and they will be based on Yay World. The entries will be judged from the concept & ideas, not technical skill and we'll have 1 winner for every 10 entries in a challenge. So everyone has quite a big chance to win!

By winning a challenge, you'll win the privilege to either add 1 body part or 1 accessory to your pet. So our goal today is not winning a tournament but getting our pets look as amazing as we can. Once you have won a challenge, you can redraw or add new accessory or body part to your current pet pic.

Important! --> Only those who have become hunters, not just members, can participate the challenge.

On another note, once in a year - for Christmas / New Year gift, I'll pick the best pet design to be recreated in my semi realism style painting. The pets that qualify to be picked are the ones that have won at least 3 stars. However, I make an exception for this year Christmas... every has a chance to win regardless of the stars they have collected!


Q: Can I remove a default body part of an animal?
A: Yes, if you have won a challenge and only 1 body part per animal. For example, you can remove a Meowa's bat wings, but you can't remove its water tail, or the other way around.


Q: Is cloth considered as accessory too?
A: Yes, but hat, belt, brooch, etc, are considered as different items that must be won from another challenge.


Q: What are the star icons next to our pet name on the member list blog?
A: When you first register as a hunter, you'll get 5 dark/empty star icons put next to your pet on the member list blog. They are slots of champion stars that you can get from winning a challenge.
Every time your current pet has won 5 stars, you can get yourself a new pet to improve/decorate again. The second species that you can choose can be ether be a half higher level new species of the same rank with your first pet, or you can choose any of level 1a animal again. For example: To get a Gerund, you must have a five star Aroro. To get a Draga, you must have a five star Gerund.


Q: Can we give away stars or pets to other hunters?
A: Nope! You can't give away stars to people. The goal of this game is decorating each pet you have with 5 kind of additional body parts and/mixed/or with accessories. Once one is done, you can move forward to decorate the next pet of higher level with the same rank, or the same level but from different species or rank.


Q: I haven't won any challenges but I'm bored with my current pet's marking or color, can I change the marking or the color alone anytime I want?
A: It's okie as long as you don't add any body parts or accessories though. You can replace your pet drawings anytime you want as long as they don't go beyond the limit of what their stars allow them to. I will only check the balance of the total number of the additional body parts/accessories with the total number of the star a pet has. So if you have won a challenge and get 1 star for your Aroro, for example, and you have used it to add dove wings and a week later you have a change of heart and like to change the dove wings with bat wings, or remove the wings and give it a pair of horns or a bracelet. It's still okie.


Q: Can we get a legendary creature?
A: Nope. They will act as NPCs from now on.


Q: What about the Vapos? Do we still need to decide whether we want to be a Valca or a Poapoa?
A: Not anymore. But the fact that there are only 2 vapos live in the land is still the general truth for this world.

Q: What are the conditions to affiliate?

_{1.) Must be a 1 month old account or more.
2.) Must have at least 50 watchers.
3.) Must watch & become a member of our group account: Yayland If you're a group, please watch us from your main account.
4.) If you submit a NEW journal about YAY!PETS, we'll do the same thing for you.
5.) Please send us a note from your game account. Thanks.}

Q: Can I use one of your pictures as a base to make my own pet/avatar game?
A: No, all artworks here are © emmil --> emmil


Q:Can I do fanart of these pets?
A: Yes, you can, but plz give us a credit & link back to this account.


Q: Can I show off my pet that I draw on other website as a banner or an avatar?
A: Yes.

Q: How can someone get banned here??
A: For spamming with links to their galleries/adoptables on their comments (signatures are okie though), or harassing admins with nasty words, for registering with double accounts.

"Every game has its own rules. The rules are created for some reasons. One should read before one decides to play. If one is so ignorant to read this game rules, one should have not bother to register."

Latest added: StaceysWolfClub!


Conditions to affiliate:

1.) Must be a 1 month old account or more.

2.) Must have at least 50 watchers.

3.) Must watch us. If you're a group, please watch us from your main account.

4.) If you submit a NEW journal about YAY!PETS, we'll do the same thing for you.

5.) Please send us a note from your adoptable account. Thanks.


NOTES:

1.) Trade is currently closed now.
2.) We'll put all our affiliates' icons below.


The Affiliates:

Below is a list of stores belongs to some NPCs in Yay!Pet games.
I'll update this journal every time a new store has opened.


1.) Shirley's charm shop.
She sells charms made from elemental spirits to upgrade your pet status. She accepts only USD for payment, or you can trade an item for a number of elemental spirits she requests.

Hi, this is Emmil speaking.
On my last journal update, I've told you that Yaypets is gonna have a big gameplay surgery. Unfortunately, that will include the new - not 100% yet revealed - fairy chapter. The reason behind of this big change is that I have less and less time spend on Yaypets, and thus the whole gameplay is not suitable for me to handle anymore. But the bright side is that I have completely remove the commercial mind I have for this game. So this game will be free for everyone to play!

It's really sad that after being so creatively created every little things and prepared all the available strategies one can use to play this game, I need to abandon them all. But sacrifices and reformation must be made if I still want to keep Yaypets alive. I'm not going to tell a lot details of the changes now but only the basic hints of what will stay, what will be gone and what's new. So read on:

What will stay:
1.) The world, the map, the animals and all the story behind about Yaypets.

What will be gone:
1.) The badge system
2.) The battle system
3.) The clan system
4.) The shop system
5.) The food system
6.) The breeding system
7.) The mission system
8.) etc

In short, anything that requires me to draw & upload a lot of pics to this account. I'm at the maximum level of getting bored recoloring the pets. I will delete 90% of the pets here and will save about 10% for illustrations needed on the species list pages. So please save whatever pet pics you like for the good time sake memory, don't use them anywhere else please.

What are new?
1.) You will need to draw it yourself but it must be still a species which is available in Yaypets + following some other conditions which I'll explain later.
2.) Your works will be submitted to Yaypets group account, so this account will be use to upload all the reference arts, main rules and all the yaypets fact journals.
3.) With almost all the old system gone, we'll play random challenge once in 2 weeks. The challenge and its related update will be written on the group blog.

That's all for now, I'll write another update next month. Any questions? Write here. Thanks!

Regards,
emmil