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I was gonna try to put this on tumblr but it just wasn’t working. I am too stupit to figure out the read more there. 😂 This is me Wishing desperately that I could jsut take exactly the graphics and visuals in my brain and make it a real functioning game…

Customize

• Customization screen can edit the basic fundamentals of your Digi. You can choose from pre-set names and pronouns, or add in your own.

• The voice, which is akin to animal crossing babble but more compressed, like vintage pc sounds, can be four different volumes and four different tones. The fourth volume, mute, will remove dialogue and your Digi will communicate with you via gestures, icons, and physical movements, as opposed to written text. 

• The background color scheme can be pre-selected or customized, though the base color will remain white. 

• Skin tone and height can be adjusted here and are not considered wardrobe. Hair and Eyes style/color do count as wardrobe. Skin tone can be preselected from a gradient of human skin tones, or you can choose a completely different color from the color picker. Blush features with be an automatic warmer tone than what was picked! Height can be picked via slider, and body type can be picked between multi presets and tweaked with mini sliders. 

Personality

• The Loner to Social scale tells how much your Digi likes to talk. A Digi closer to the Loner end might be less likely to be chatty, while a Digi closer to the Social end might have more to say. 

• The Grumpy to Cheery scale tells how moody your Digi is on a day to day basis. A Digi closer to the Grumpy end might tend to be a bit harder to make happy, and will be a bit moody by nature. A Digi closer to the Cheery end earns happiness points faster and has a generally happy disposition. Both ends of this scale can experience sadness and happiness respectively. 

• The Needy to Solo scale tells how independent or dependent your Digi is. A Digi closer to the Needy end craves more one to one attention, more playing and patting and prefers more care when in need. A Digi closer to the Solo end might prefer doing more on their own, are more satisfied when given devices to use by themselves, and often prefer to be ignored when they’re in need so they can problem solve by themselves. Both ends may voice the desire to be left alone or assisted respectively at any time. 

• These personalities can be directly chosen to your exact desire, randomized, or even set to auto growth, which sets the personality to base settings, and over time your Digi will grow into their own personality entirely as you interact with them. This may give you little surprises here and there with how they might react to things or interact with you!

Needs

• While a Digi cannot die, nor will they run away, as they can take basic care of themselves if necessary, a Digi’s needs are still very important to gaining friendship and growing levels. 

• The happiness meter grows depending on how content they are. Talking with your Digi, giving them attention when requiring assistance (or not, depending), changing their clothes, feeding them, all lend to the growth of Happiness. More solo and/or grumpy Digi’s take a bit longer to fill their happiness meter, as they don’t like to be bothered constantly. Repetitive talking or interacting past 3x will result in the lowering of the happiness bar. Take it slow with those Digi’s! A needy and/or social Digi might love to chat a lot all at once, and enjoys the constant interaction. The happiness bar declines slowly, reaching full emptiness if a Digi isn’t interacted with within three real world days regardless of personality.

• The fun meter can be raised by playing with your Digi. Taking them into the city to explore and play games is the most effective way to raise their fun meter by multiple points, but they may grow tired if they go out more than once to be active. (Playing games can earn Bubblez, which are the Digi’s currency, and you can choose to play solo games that don’t involve your Digi if you are earning Bubblez!) While at home, giving your Digi an activity like… an mp3 player or radio to listen to music, a DigiDog/DigiCat or handheld console to play with, or a plushie to take a comfy nap with can all raise their fun points! Snacks also help. 

• The hunger meter is by far the most important! Digi’s love food, but it is easy to overdo it! Make sure you double check how many food points each snack, meal, or drink fulfills, or you may overdo it and lead your Digi feeling queasy or overstuffed. Digi’s can have likes and dislikes when it comes to food or drinks, and while they will never outright hate any food, they will let you know if something is their favorite! Giving them their favorite food or drink might earn you extra happiness points, or a couple Bubblez if their happiness is already full. 

• Well kept needs can grant friendship points, which levels up your Digi over time, shows how close you are to them, and gives you details on how a Digi might like to be interacted with/what their favorite foods are/etc. Digi’s with high friendship points are less likely to require assistance when their window is minimized, and receive certain buffs or features!

Wardrobe

• In the wardrobe, a Digi can find all of their clothing and accessories! These can include tops, bottoms, dresses, shoes…. jewelry in the form of earrings, bracelets, necklaces, hair clips, and glasses…. “contacts” (or simply their eye color), hairstyles and hair dye, and tattoos. 

• Any gender of Digi can wear any article of clothing, there are no limitations. Contacts can be customized per single eye or as the pair. You can mix and match earrings and choose to accessorize either one or both ears. Tattoos can be placed wherever you want in your Digi, and can be resized and recolored as well. Clothing color can be fully customized on any article of clothing, and over shirts can be matched with any undershirt! I.E. an open button up, or a jacket, over any top. 

• Hair can be chosen as a whole style, with preset colors/patterns/textures, or you can mix and match elements to create unique looks! You can change the bangs, base, and top of the hair, and can draw on any fun color patterns you’d like. 

• Facial features can also be chosen from the wardrobe, including eye shape, mouth shape, beauty marks, and freckles. (Eye shape is here because of the addition of lashes or lack of, which can be added or changed via each eye shape. Mouth shape because of it including lipsticks or general color.)

• New accessories and clothing can be bought from the city’s apparel shop using Bubblez. You can also customize your own clothing with custom patterns and designs there, as well as build unique clothing shapes, i.e.- a T-shirt with one short sleeve and one long sleeve, or a skirt over leggings!

• Pajamas and swim clothes can also be customized and chosen in the wardrobe, and can be worn as a daily outfit if chosen. Otherwise, Digi’s will always have a pair of pajamas they change into at night time and a swim outfit for getting wet. 

Digi Homes

• A Digi’s home can be customized to a small degree. Furniture can be moved to certain locked positions, and can come in a variety of colors or patterns. The furniture shop in the city might carry unique items daily, like a pile of plushies to lay in, a pillow fort to hide in, or a keyboard to play. 

• There are multiple rooms, including…. A living room (the default room), a bedroom, a bathroom, a kitchen, and a backyard. The living room is the everything room, but the other rooms offer specifics. 

• The bedroom is where you can change your Digi’s style, see them lounging with a game or book, or find them napping if they feel sick. 

• The bathroom is where you might spot a Digi showering behind a curtain, brushing their teeth, using the restroom, or checking themselves out in the mirror. 

• The kitchen is where you can feed your Digi at the table, check the fridge to see what food or drinks you have in stock, or retrieve cleaning items to clean up dust that might accumulate (more often due to inactivity). 

• The backyard can be customized to have a sprinkler or a pool (start with sprinkler, purchase pool of multiple types later) where your Digi can cool off during the summer. You might find them autonomously playing out here, spending time with their DigiDog/Cat, sunbathing, or napping under the shade of a tree. 

Feelings

• Digi’s can experience a wide range of emotions and feelings. If experiencing intense emotions, ones that require an action, they may appear in the form of a bubble above your Digi’s head. A screen may pop up with these that give you a list of options for interactions, or an ignore button.

• “Ecstatic” means that your Digi is extra happy and wants to spend time with you ASAP! Share a snack with them, play a Vs. mini game, or give them a head pat! Ignoring this emotion for an exceptionally social and/or needy Digi will tank their happiness, and they may sulk in their room and require extra interaction to snap them out of it. A loner Digi that feels ignored when they show excessive emotion will lose all happiness and fun points, and will feel embarrassed, earn the despair need, and may choose to refuse interaction for a while. 

• “Despair” is a Digi’s saddest emotion. This can happen when their happiness goes down fast, if they (you) lose 5 minigames in a row in the city, if they lose an item, or sometimes at random. They might not know why they are feeling so sad all of a sudden! Sometimes a Digi may need your help to overcome this despair, asking for some water or to listen to some music or for a consoling touch, but some Digi’s may also ask to be left alone during this time. Ignoring their request to be ignored will only prolong the despair.  

• “Fury” can happen if you have severely irked your Digi, or if they have a bad interaction with another Digi over Multiplayer! Pushing interactions that a Digi might not want, purposefully ignoring them when they are trying to get your attention, or poking them too many times with your cursor might get them going. When Digi’s meet a new Digi via multiplayer, they have a very low chance to become enemies. This can be grown out of if it does happen, but that also means that they have the ability to become infuriated by the other. Bringing them home in this situation ASAP will help ease their fury. 

Ailments

• Ailments also show in the same way feelings do. These might require action. Some Digi’s desperately need help overcoming them, while some prefer to be left alone. Some super dependant Digi’s may also feel so bad that they ask for help when you are expecting them not too, or vice versa! It can also vary, so make sure you pay attention to your Digi’s request! 

• “Feverish” Digi’s aren’t feeling so hot! Or, should I say cool? If they ask for assistance, you have the option to give them a class of cold water, medication, or consolation. If these Digi’s are ignored, they won’t be too devastated if they are needy, and you will find them in their bed resting. They will heal faster with cold water or medication, though!

• “Exhausted” Digi’s have been pushed to the brink! Digi’s can feel exhaustion if you take them into the city for activities more than four times in a day, by forcing them to swim for too long, or at the rare random occasion. To help this, you may give your digi a glass of water or suggest they go to bed early for sleep or a nap. An exhausted Digi cannot eat food at this point, they can only drink drinks. 

• “Mortified” Digi’s are as embarrassed as they can get!! This is much more common for Digi’s who are grumpy or loners, especially if they are ignored when craving the rare attention, or if they do something particularly embarrassing. You have the option to console these Digi’s, but it might be best to just leave them alone. 

• “Queasy” Digi’s might have eaten something a little off! Or maybe the ride home on the monorail didn’t sit well. This might also follow a fever, as if they have a bug. Some soda, medication, or even a gentle belly rub might help a queasy Digi out, but at any point might ask you to grab them a trash can from the bathroom. (This is a timed event, giving you 20 seconds to retrieve the trash can, or else you will find them in the kitchen at the sink. Failing this might make them embarrassed.) Solo Digi’s highly prefer to be left alone to ride it out when they are queasy.

• “Stuffed” Digi’s are the outcome of filling that seventh hunger slot! While they might not love to eat too much to reach that slot, some might enjoy it greatly. From this point, you can either feed them a little bit more, rub their belly, poke their belly (ouch!), or leave them alone to digest. 

• “Overstuffed” is what Digi’s might get if you give them too much extra while they are already in their “Stuffed” phase. Even Digi’s who enjoy being stuffed might feel rather uncomfortable here, and gentle belly rubs are the only thing that can soothe them. That, or you can leave them to wallow in their roundness. 

• “Blank” is a very rare ailment for a Digi to experience. It happens at complete random with no apparent cause. When a Digi is blank, they experience no emotions and lose all of their color. To snap them out of this, one must swap out their entire outfit for colored items, and their greyscale outfit must be taken to the apparel shop to be fixed. Sometimes this is enough to help them, but other times, you may have to take some extra steps to bring them back to normal. Feeding them a Rainbow Plate, letting them listen to music, or taking them to the aquarium in The City might help. During this time, if you are not actively assisting them, you may find a blank Digi standing around rigidly, laying flat on the floor, or stuck in an odd location. 

Minigames

• There are many minigames to play, and three different ways to play them!!

• Vs. games- Vs. games are games you play against your Digi— you versus them! These games can include checkers, high card or low card, rock paper scissors, red light green light, Guess the number, reversi, hot hands, and more! 

• Team Games- these are games you play while in the city, where you control your Digi to try to win! These can include sidescroller style games, racing games, breakout, catch the falling [X], and more! These games reward you with tickets. 

• Solo Games- solo games are games you play without your Digi, when they are too tired to play without becoming exhausted or irritable. These include games like crossword puzzles, solitaire, memory games, word searches, and more! These games reward you with tickets. 

The City

• The City is a large second location that you visit with your Digi! They can take the monorail in and can experience shopping, games, exploring, or meeting up with the idle Digi’s of offline friends! 

• The shopping plaza has many places of interest, including Frutiger Foods (for meals, snacks, and drinks), Accentuate (for any and all wardrobe items), Lively Living (for home items like furniture or cleaning items), and Gamma Goodies (for toys/interactables like consoles, plushies, digi pets, and books.)

• The Arcade section is where you can play the Solo and Team games listed above! When you play, you earn Tickets, which you can exchange for clothing, goodies, arcade treats (like a piece of candy), or Bubblez.

• Exploring The City can bring you to a few different locations! There is a park that can be explored with a fountain where your Digi can watch the water or make a wish. There is a shoppe called GigaBites for getting exclusive drinks, snacks, or meals. Hovertours is where your Digi can take a tour around the city in a hovercar, which lasts 10 minutes and has fun music and views. Lastly, Goldfish Globe is an aquarium where you can let your Digi rest indefinitely and hear the soothing music and sounds of water bubbling while they watch the fish swim by. If you have gifted your Digi a digital camera, they can take photos at the prior two locations and use those photos in their I.D. Card as a background! At any of these specific locations, you might find a friend’s Digi that your Digi knows meeting up to hang out! These Digi’s are usually offline and act as NPCs here, but they can follow your Digi, get drinks together, or sit and chat. 

Multiplayer

• Multiplayer mode lets you play alongside online friends! You may add friends through the friend code feature, and will become alerted if another Digi is online! 

• The Friend List screen is where you will find your added friends, as well as gain access to your Digi’s I.D.! Here you can customize your Digi’s I.D. card, which can be traded with your friends and added to your Digi Pal album! Each card is saved as is, so if your friend changes their Digi’s I.D. Card, you can trade again and have another card of their Digi! You can decorate your Digi’s I.D. Card with fun backgrounds, borders, stickers, and can choose from many different poses and expressions!

• Play dates can be requested through the friend list screen, and the Digi’s will visit the home of whoever sent the request. Digi’s will have friendship bars, which can increase or decrease depending on how compatible their personalities are! Even complete opposite personalities can become best friends, but it might take a bit more work. You can play any Vs games with your friend during a playdate! 

• DigiSWAP! A DigiSWAP is a feature that lets you trade Digi’s for a small period of time (either a couple minutes, hours, or a single day) with a friend! You get their Digi and they get yours. During this time you can care for them like your own, give them an outfit makeover (you can choose to keep it or revert it upon the return of your own Digi), or take them out to play! The only limitations are that you cannot change their colors (like hair, eyes, or skin), height, weight, or hairstyle. You also cannot give them any items belonging to your digi, like their toys or games. If chosen to spend time for an entire day, Digi’s will automatically leave to return home at 10:00 PM!