Post by Morigale on Apr 30, 2021 4:41:20 GMT
I'm looking for a game that, well, even if anyone remembers it is probably non-functional given the way it worked.
It was a thing where you could capture creatures/monsters(like pokemon or monster rancher style) on webpages - the big gimmick was that you could put a bit of code (It may have been referred to as a 'cage'?) in your webpage and if someone who was using the game visited your site the monster would show up.
It was either a browser bar that had to be installed, or you had to start from the game website and visit other pages through it. It's possible other websites had a chance to have creatures on them and the code was only to guarantee one would be there? Because I remember being very excited and trying a bunch of different sites. (But I could just have been stupid)
There were different types of monsters, I remember slime and bird types (Phoenix?) that may have had color or model variants. They were in that 90s 3d art style, very shiny and not much texturing. I only remember being able to collect the monsters, I don't remember if there was any sort of battling element.
It had a webring based on it that linked to a bunch of different sites that had the code snippet in them.
I associate it with Petz 3 or 4, and think I found it going through a webring based on Petz websites. It also makes me think of Monster Rancher, but possibly only because of the monster collecting? I've placed at as 1999/2000 primarily because of that (MR2 was 1999, Petz 3 was 1998 and 4 was 1999) but it could have been slightly earlier.
Unfortunately I don't remember any part of the name and I feel like it was someone's personal project rather than being a full game put out by a company. (Although I remember it having good art for the time and quite a few monsters, so it's possible I'm wrong on that count)
Thank you!
