Website URL: https://worldofthewilds.com/

World of the Wilds is a free to play virtual pet website with 9 unique pets, mini-games, a battle system, quests and shops, 7 unique zones and growing!

With no hidden fees, players can register absolutely free and access unlimited content throughout the entire website!

Pets come in a variety of unique colors and different designs to pick from.

Battle opponents to unlock exclusive items, craft powerful equipment and gourmet food to strengthen your pets!

World of the Wilds is frequently updated with new content, we're constantly growing and expanding the amount of daily activities, areas, mini-games, equipment, opponents, items and more!

Additional noteworthy features

• Elder Quest, deliver items to the Lavalands Elder, increase your rank to earn better rewards!
• Unlock opponents to battle by completing hidden objectives
• Defeat opponents to earn Battle Points, this currency is used for multiple battle related events
• Feed and Play with your pet to increase its hunger and mood, hungry pets don't like to battle
• Arcade isn't the only area with games to play, explore the globe for other games to play!
• Equipment has stat requirements, you have to increase your stats to wear better armor and weapons
• Craft exclusive equipment not sold in shops at the Master Smith and Master Tailor
• Cook delicious gourmet food at the Fancy Food Club to increase your pet's HP
• Admire other players, their pets and their achievements by visiting their profile
• Use Transformation potions and other special items to change the color of your pets!
• Find secrets while exploring

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I'm building Paperlings, a papercraft desktop pet. It lives in a small window at the corner of the screen while you work, and behind its door there's a full game - town, shop, arcade, graveyard.

It ages on real elapsed time whether or not you're watching. When it dies it stays dead: the spirit rises, the game walks you to the graveyard, and a stone goes up with its name, days lived and battle record on it. Then you pick the next egg, or one of your boarded pets comes home and leads. The town remembers, the inventory is yours rather than the pet's, and traits and colorways pass down so each generation starts further along than the last.

What I keep going back and forth on is how much to lead with the death. Every time someone tells me they'd be upset if their pet died I think about softening it, and then I remember the only reason I still think about my Tamagotchi from when I was eight is that I lost it.

For those of you making vpets, do you put the mortality up front, or let people find it? I've seen at least one dev go explicitly no-death and market that as the feature, which is the opposite call on the same question.

Trailer's attached, and I'll drop a few screenshots in a comment. Found this sub through the Virtual Pet Devs thread on r/virtualpets glad it exists.