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Customization
Three colour slots × ten colours, ten unlockable accessories, and ten unlockable styles to make your pet yours.
Features
A full game, built before the first sprite.
PetPal renders every pet procedurally, so all of this is playable right now — art and audio are placeholders you can swap in later. Here's what's already in the box.
Your companion
7 species, each with personality
Pick one to raise. Every species has its own default palette and procedural look, plus deep customization on top.
Fox
Cat
Bunny
Dragon
Slime
Robot
Axolotl
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5-stage evolution
Evolution is driven by encounter milestones — 50, 200, 500, and 1000 friends met.
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Core stats
Level, XP, happiness, energy, friendship, and an adventure rank that all move as you play.
Day to day
Things to do every time you open it
PetPal is built to reward a quick daily check-in as much as a long session. Care for your pet, send it out, then read about who it met.
- Daily activities. Feed, play, pet, and talk — plus dress-up and the journal.
- Adventure system. Real-time short, medium, and long trips with per-location loot tables and a generated story line.
- Friendship. Encounters build friendship levels over time, not just a friend count.
- Items & currency. Gifts, collectible items, and a currency to spend on your pet.
- Achievements. Long-term goals that track milestones across everything you do.
- CRC-checked packets. Every exchanged pet is integrity-checked before it joins your world.
- Friend dedupe. Pass the same person twice and they're recognised, not duplicated.
- Gifts & rewards. Encounters can carry gifts and grant XP toward your next evolution.
- Local or worldwide. StreetPass handles people nearby; NetPass carries encounters across the internet.
The heart of it
Meeting people is the whole game
The exchange pipeline is the part PetPal cares most about: trade pets safely, fold new friends into your journal, hand out gifts and rewards, and keep friendships growing. Whether the person was sitting next to you or halfway around the planet doesn't change a thing.
Under the hood
Solid where it counts
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Save system
Versioned and CRC-validated, with atomic writes, a rotating backup, and portable exports under backups/.
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Dual-screen UI
An animated hub plus eight screens, an easing/tween engine, touch and D-pad navigation, all at a 60 FPS target.
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Built on devkitPro
C++17 with libctru, citro2d and citro3d. Gameplay logic is decoupled from the device, so it's testable on a PC.
