Verpets

Crazy that our two week alpha test is already coming to an end! I want to say, thank you to everyone who logged in, tested features, reported bugs, shared suggestions, and just spent time exploring. Getting actual users and excited people on the site is truly motivating!

The site will be shutting down tonight at 9:00 PM Eastern Time. After that, logins will only work for staff while we go through all the bugs and suggestions and start planning the next phase.

We’ve received so many suggestions over these two weeks. Some are small tweaks we can jump on fairly quickly. Others are much bigger ideas that would take a lot of art, coding, and time to bring to the site. Once the alpha test closes, we’ll be going through everything carefully and figuring out what fits best, what we can prioritize now, what we can tackle between future alpha tests.

As you may already know, this is a passion project for us. Every single one of the staff members is balancing work, family, and life outside of this, so progress may not be super fast at times, but know we’re still working on new things whenever we can, and we care about building something fun for us all!

We really hope you had fun during this alpha test, and that you’ll come back in a couple of months to see how far things have come. Your support and feedback mean a lot to us!

Thank you again for taking part in our first alpha test!

So you all have something more to collect, we have released 9 new berries for you to collect at the berry bush!

Thank you, Liz, for making these!

Thank you!

Just wanted to thank everyone for helping us test the first early alpha for Verpets! We have already received so many great suggestions from all of you and will be implementing many of them in the coming weeks.

We have made a few changes as the alpha has continued this weekend, including 7 new default avatars, enabling two-character pet names, and stocking the elusive Pink Flower in the general store.

This alpha run will be closing on February 13th, so feel free to keep exploring until then. Your accounts will remain active for future alpha testing, but we cannot guarantee that all items, pets, or Verpoints will carry over (we will try our best, but some things may not be possible). With that said, all accounts will be wiped for any beta or full release versions after.

I have made an update to integrate the news system into the boards! Now when someone makes a news post, it will automatically create a topic in the "News & Announcements" category and we can have relevant discussions in the topics, with moderation tools. This should make it easier for everyone!