Pocket Pet - A microgame about caring

A microgame about taking care of a little egg, helping it turn into a magical creature and about self care.

To play this game you'll need:

• The rules
• A program to draw on the pdf (if downloaded)
• A pen (If printed)
• 5 minutes of free time

Special Thanks

Thank you to cutestpatoo and their video: S2E1 of 10 Minute TTRPG "New in Town" with the prompt game being Animal crossing.

About the development

My idea was to focus on one aspect I like from Animal crossing, that being that you can have very short sessions where you check in on your town/island once per day and do a couple of things and be done with it. 

In order to do so I wanted to make a short game you could have with you and daydream about but ultimately only "needed" to actively check in on once a day at the end of the day when comming back from work/obligations.

The idea to tie it in with real life actions came from wanting the game to be completely without randomness but still in the player's control.

In wanting to make the game as low stress as possible I dind't include the possibility for the pet to die. On "failure" the pet just reverts back to an egg and  the player can just try again, without any kind of punishment.

Parting words

I hope some of you will try my game out and maybe even someday have a menagerie of magical creatures you helped raise :)

Image credit

Background image provided by: www.pexels.com/photo/close-up-photography-of-quail-eggs-on-nest-810320/