PSA: This petsite is too good and it needs more attention (4dopt)
Subtitle: no seriously the customization and how artist-friendly it is is KILLING ME
I'm sorry I have immense brainrot I NEED to talk about this okay SO let me tell you guys about this petsite I discovered a few weeks ago called 4dopt.com.
For the love of god please try this game out (check out the read more for... more info!)
TLDR; You can draw your own species and it'll be added to the game. Players can obtain that species and recolor them to make customs of them if you so choose. You can draw your own items too which can be used for species obtainment and raising stats.
In 4dopt, you can obtain adopts (or pets) through various means, such as using items, getting them from the shelter (which have been discarded by other players), or through the adventure/exploration system as a random encounter.
The fun part? The adopts and items are player-created. Like, I'm talking entire species and items that can increase an adopt's stats or generate a new adopt entirely from them. They're drawn, created, and controlled by the players. Another thing is that these adopts can be completely customizable. You can recolor them, give it different patterns (if available), change the lineart or shading, but only so long as the creator allows it. That's another thing - there is SO much control the creator has over their creations. It's all up to the creator to design different patterns and layers to the adopt, as well as give permissions as to what a player can and can't customize.
There's over 1,000 adopts to collect (and possibly customize) by the way, and more are coming! (It's been a BLAST watching the Discord and seeing all the future adopt WIPs people have been doing ;w;)
I can't describe in proper words how extensive the customization is. Getting the full scope of what I mean is a little difficult unless you've seen it for yourself, so here's a screenshot of me going through some recoloring!
Aaand because I can't help myself, here's a mini showcase of the adopts I've recolored!
the species of each adopt, in order are: caprine, oldwood witch, and paint bird
In addition, creators can control the adopt's gender ratio, what items it comes from (if any), which exploration areas it comes from (if any) (as well as their rarities), and more. You want an adopt to be a seasonal-only thing? Go for it and put it in one of the rotating exploration areas or shops! You want to make a specific pattern of an adopt only available by using a certain item? Do it! I'd hunt one down for that!
A creator can make evolutions of their adopt, which can have different requirements, as well as a stats system which can be renamed to be more thematic to an adopt. (For example, I have an adopt whose Health stat is renamed to Size, due to it requiring to get a big size for it to evolve. These stats can also be used as requirements to put certain patterns or anatomical changes or etc to an adopt when customizing it.)
You may be thinking - oh, but being able to create an adopt/item is probably difficult, right? Nope! All you need to do is have your account be level 10, which, with some exploration, takes no time at all. I did it in under an hour! And then submit a small portfolio of your previous work to gain access to an artist panel, linked here (if you're logged in).
4dopt welcomes all artists, whether you're a beginner or you've been drawing for years, so there's no worries on if you're "good enough" or not. (YOU ALWAYS ARE!!!) If you have an idea, just make it, and chances are, us players will eat it up.
Anyways lightning round of more features:
A tagging system where, if you block a tag (like gore or body horror), all adopt species that fall under that tag will not be shown to you.
A weekly contest where you can show off your adopts as well as vote for others' adopts, and at the end of the week, the top votes get some nice rewards!
A breeding system where the offspring will have a combination of the markings/layers of the parents
Collaboration friendly (wanna create an adopt with a friend? fully supported!)
Read funny and weird blurbs that players have submitted (oh yeah you can submit little blurbs too) to exploration.
The game JUST shifted from registration windows to open registration, so I hope more people give this game a try. It's super underrated and deserves more attention!
Here's the site link again, and if you want to use a referral ID, mine is #3761, though you don't have to. I really don't care I just want more people to JOIN!!!!
Anyways I'm gunna end this post with a couple of guides:
Unofficial FAQ
Species Making Tutorial
Oh, and if you join, let me know your user id and I'll send you some goodies to help jumpstart things!!
anyways thanks for reading my yapping and uhhh if you do join i hope you enjoy!!
If you’re a member of the Petsite community, please watch and share this video. Santae staff have been abused by the owner, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
more goats from my species! they got released last night and its been a blast watching them pop up :) 4dopt opens registration tomorrow (saturday) if any of my followers wanna check out an adopt petsite and get sum goats. still adjusting their files
Every time I draw a horse it's like I've never seen a horse in my life and I have to relearn horse legs all over again. These aren't really horses though, I didn't realize how goatlike they were until I zoomed in on the originals, which are very small.
They're Stellaricorns, from 4dopt, which is a great petsite I wish I could recommend right now BUT registration is closed at the moment. I'll try to remember to say something about it when they open back up, they're working on recoding the site right now. When they're open again they're really worth checking out!
I will be back on my bullshit soon I'm doing other bullshit.
You see, I've discovered via my discord server a website called 4dopt that allows you to make a species. I've hyperfixated and behold, my soon releasing species the BeepBeep
Lots of variations abd you cam customize them and have your very own BeepBeep! They aren't out yet but getting close (I'm sorting details out and making more last minute assets)
