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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 (found online Neopets platform game; 2004-2006)|''The Last Smiley'']], [[Neopets Mobile (lost features of discontinued T-Mobile service; 2006-2009)|''Neopets Mobile'']] and '''''PetPet Park'''''. ''PetPet Park'' was opened in October 2008 by ''Neopets'' and Nickelodeon Kids & Family Virtual Worlds Group<ref>[http://www.jellyneo.net/index.php?comments=3536 Announcement of the opening of the game's beta.] Retrieved 02 Apr '19</ref> and focused on the Neopets' companions, Petpets.
''PetPet Park'' launched in October 2008 by ''Neopets'' and Nickelodeon Kids & Family Virtual Worlds Group. <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20220516153613/http://www.jellyneo.net/index.php?comments=3536 Announcement of the opening of the game's beta.] Retrieved 02 Apr '19</ref> and focused on the Neopets' companions, Petpets.
The virtual pet website ''Neopets'' has had multiple spinoffs over the years, whether they were site-based minigames, or on various apps. Some of these include [[The Last Smiley (found online Neopets platform game; 2004-2006)|''The Last Smiley'']], [[Neopets Mobile (lost features of discontinued T-Mobile service; 2006-2009)|''Neopets Mobile'']] and ''PetPet Park''.  


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".<ref>[http://www.sunnyneo.com/plots/PetpetPark/mission1.php A Neopets fansite that has an overview of the mini-plot and the missions.] Retrieved 02 Apr '19</ref>
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." <ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220516153613/http://www.sunnyneo.com/plots/PetpetPark/mission1.php</ref>


==Gameplay==
==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.
''Petpet Park'' was an isometric MMO, primarily focused on completing quests and character customization. Membership was an additional option for players looking to unlock more features, such as cosmetics and member-only areas.
 
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. <ref>http://openspace-engine.com/showcase</ref>
 
=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.  
 
 
 


The game was somewhat similar to ''Neopets'', with players having the ability to customize and feed their virtual pets. There were of 9 species of Petpets to choose from as of 2014, but the game initially started with six pets: the Pinixy, Kassegat, Drym, Oukin, Dipni and Hifflo. The later three additional members only Petpets were the Puxa, Mumbat, and Bandalu. <ref>[https://bookofages.jellyneo.net/history/petpet-park/ Jellyneo page summarizing Petpet Park and its features.] Retrieved 15 Dec 2022</ref>


==Closure==
In 2014, ''Neopets'' was acquired by the educational franchise JumpStart.<ref>[http://www.jellyneo.net/index.php?comments=10057 A post on a ''Neopets'' fansite about the layoff of many ''Neopets'' employees, after the acquisition by JumpStart.] Retrieved 02 Apr 2019</ref> An announcement of the game's closure was made on September 9th, 2014, and the game subsequently closed on the 18th.<ref>[http://www.neopets.com/nf.phtml?nf_date=2014-09-08 A list of news updates by Neopets in September 2014, including the announcement of Petpet Park shutting down.] Retrieved 02 Apr 2019</ref>


==Closure==
No playable versions of the game have surfaced since then, and in May 2017, ''Neopets'' stopped paying for the domain; the site's current state is an advertising page unrelated to ''Neopets''.<ref>[http://www6.petpetpark.com/?s_token=1554256372.0729769065&searchbox=1&showDomain=1&tdfs=1 Petpet Park's current state at the moment.] Retrieved 02 Apr 2019</ref>
In 2014, ''Neopets'' was acquired by the educational franchise JumpStart.<ref>[http://www.jellyneo.net/index.php?comments=10057 A post on a ''Neopets'' fansite about the layoff of many ''Neopets'' employees, after the acquisition by JumpStart.] Retrieved 02 Apr '19</ref> 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.<ref>[http://www.neopets.com/nf.phtml?nf_date=2014-09-08 A list of news updates by Neopets in September 2014, including the announcement of Petpet Park shutting down (you have to scroll down a bit).] Retrieved 02 Apr '19</ref>


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''.<ref>[http://www6.petpetpark.com/?s_token=1554256372.0729769065&searchbox=1&showDomain=1&tdfs=1 Petpet Park's current state at the moment.] Retrieved 02 Apr '19</ref>
==Restoration Efforts==
There are currently no playable versions of this game; however, as of 2022, two groups currently is active in attempting to restore Petpet Park,petpet project x(started in 2014) and Petpet Park Rebuild (started in 2021)


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.<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/PetpetProject/ The "PetPet Project" page on Facebook.] Retrieved 02 Apr '19</ref>
A reddit user (u/neo_truths) made access to previously lost files available to ensure that not all features of the game are totally lost. (i.e., beta content, in-game code, etc.)<ref>[https://pastebin.com/mw43Qgee neo_truths' beta assets dump] </ref>


==Gallery==
==Gallery==
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==See Also==
*[[Jelly World Practice Team (partially lost original images of Neopets characters; 2006)]]
*[[Neopets Mobile (found features of discontinued T-Mobile service; 2006-2009)]]
*[[Neopets Movie (partially found production material for unproduced CGI animated film; 2006)]]
*[[Tales of Neopia (unreleased MMO game based on Neopets; 2008-2010)]]
*[[The Last Smiley (found online Neopets platform game; 2004-2006)]]
==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 19:27, 12 February 2024

Petpetpark.png

The game's logo.

Status: Partially Lost/Found

PetPet Park launched in October 2008 by Neopets and Nickelodeon Kids & Family Virtual Worlds Group. [1] and focused on the Neopets' companions, Petpets. The virtual pet website Neopets has had multiple spinoffs over the years, whether they were site-based minigames, or on various apps. Some of these include The Last Smiley, Neopets Mobile and PetPet Park.

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

Petpet Park was an isometric MMO, primarily focused on completing quests and character customization. Membership was an additional option for players looking to unlock more features, such as cosmetics and member-only areas.

The game was somewhat similar to Neopets, with players having the ability to customize and feed their virtual pets. There were of 9 species of Petpets to choose from as of 2014, but the game initially started with six pets: the Pinixy, Kassegat, Drym, Oukin, Dipni and Hifflo. The later three additional members only Petpets were the Puxa, Mumbat, and Bandalu. [3]

Closure

In 2014, Neopets was acquired by the educational franchise JumpStart.[4] An announcement of the game's closure was made on September 9th, 2014, and the game subsequently closed on the 18th.[5]

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

Restoration Efforts

There are currently no playable versions of this game; however, as of 2022, two groups currently is active in attempting to restore Petpet Park,petpet project x(started in 2014) and Petpet Park Rebuild (started in 2021)

A reddit user (u/neo_truths) made access to previously lost files available to ensure that not all features of the game are totally lost. (i.e., beta content, in-game code, etc.)[7]

Gallery

Official game trailer

Short animated advertisement

Beta Petpet Park gameplay

Post-beta Petpet Park tutorial gameplay

See Also

References

  1. ↑ Announcement of the opening of the game's beta. Retrieved 02 Apr '19
  2. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20220516153613/http://www.sunnyneo.com/plots/PetpetPark/mission1.php
  3. ↑ Jellyneo page summarizing Petpet Park and its features. Retrieved 15 Dec 2022
  4. ↑ A post on a Neopets fansite about the layoff of many Neopets employees, after the acquisition by JumpStart. Retrieved 02 Apr 2019
  5. ↑ A list of news updates by Neopets in September 2014, including the announcement of Petpet Park shutting down. Retrieved 02 Apr 2019
  6. ↑ Petpet Park's current state at the moment. Retrieved 02 Apr 2019
  7. ↑ neo_truths' beta assets dump
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