Recent News
Search Options ►New SCC artist!
Site Update
Ryou (#81) has been added to our Official SCC artist listing!
Click here for more information on official SCC commissions!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Mon Feb 3, 2014 9:26pm
Breeding Addon Chest + Other stuff
Items
It has so been requested that a Random Breeding Addon Chest be added to the USD Shop. As it contains five addon boxes, this saves the time (and a bit of money) of buying five one after another. Convenience FTW!
This is a reminder that PLBC artist positions are still open! If you are fabulous at coloring, you should come give it a shot. Click here. Demand for PLBCs is rising, and so is the queue, so we'd love some more talent on our team :)
In other news, one of our programmers got back to us and said he should be able to do the pet search within the next week. Let's sit tight and hope that's the case and no other unexpected circumstances come up :)
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Mon Feb 3, 2014 10:02am
Art Gallery Extension
Contests
We need a few more entries to round out the Miksa's Exotic Pet Emporium theme this week, so you have until February 3rd at 11:59 p.m. to enter submissions! As a reminder, any medium is acceptable and we would like to see your interpretation of Miksa's shop, herself, and/or the pets in it.
And be sure to check out the love fest below if you haven't already!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sun Feb 2, 2014 9:08pm
It's Raining Love Letters!
Site Update
Delivery! Delivery!
The Adore-a-Gram Lunaris has returned for a couple of weeks to supply us with seemingly endless pink and red envelopes inked with sweet nothings~
It seems there will be a Love Letter waiting for everyone in the Advent Calendar on February 3rd. How sweet!
Before you send your Love Letter zipping off through the Ay skies to a friend, a Valentine, or a stranger, pull up a chair and grab a Love Latte while I review how our annual mail event works. :3
Love Letter Event
Love Letters are sitting at a pretty R20 and can be found anywhere you can obtain R20 items (adventure, cooking, dailies, etc.). They will also randomly pop up in the Random Crap shop.
(As always, we will monitor the numbers and make sure that the letters aren't being too shy!)
Each time you send a card to a unique user (meaning, to an account you haven't sent a card to yet), you AND the recipient will each receive 1 Valentine Point.
You will be able to spend these points in the Seasonal Shop on a bunch of sweet treats!
(Tentative date for opening the shop is February 14th, and Love Letters will be findable and deliverable until the shop closes.)
To send a card to someone for Valentine Points, click on the Love Letter in your inventory and hit Use to bring up the prompt. We have a confirmation screen to ensure your letter reaches the correct destination safely!
Point Breakdown & Tally
If I send you a card, we both get 1 point!
If you want to send me a card in return, we both get 1 point again! (Aww, you're a peach. <3)
So that is 2 points for each of us for a card swap.
In my blushing flurry and moment of overwhelming emotion, I might want to send you a second card. I can do so, but neither of us will receive any additional points. (I hope you still appreciate the thought! ;~;)
You can view the Love Letters you've received, along with points you've accumulated here.
You can also review the Love Letters you have sent to others here.
*Please note: While you can insert a text message inside the letters, and I encourage you to do so, I would suggest using plain text only!*
If you're looking for somewhere to arrange letter swapping and sending, try swinging by Aywas Talk!
Our Love Letter event runs purely on community participation and rewards you for sending sweet notes to your peers, so take advantage of the opportunity to make someone's day. :)
Good luck with your letter writing and envelope licking!
- Eri
*vanishes in a cloud of perfume*
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sun Feb 2, 2014 4:04pm
Free Monthly Custom Game!
Contests
It's time to give away nine free customs designed during January under the theme of Weddings!
To play the free custom game, please include the phrase "CUSTOM #__" in your news comment. For example, if you want Custom 1, please comment "CUSTOM #1."
Don't lose out on a chance to win one of these customs by voting incorrectly!
Custom One = bad.
Custom1 = bad.
Custom#1 = bad.
Custom #1 = good!
I love custom #1! = good!
Here we go!
1................................................2................................................3
4................................................5................................................6
7................................................8................................................9
Please contact Kyu (#1010) for your prize if you designed one of these customs!
If one of your creations didn't make it in, we highly suggest entering it as a site pet submission here if you don't want to sell/keep it. :)
You have until February 5th at 11:59 p.m. to get your vote in!
One vote per account.
Good luck!
Want to see one of YOUR creations featured in the monthly free custom game?
Enter your submission for March here! The theme is Pi Day.
(Please also remember to ensure your submissions follow standard custom/pet rules.)
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sun Feb 2, 2014 11:39am
PBC add-ons
Site Update
*GASP* Someone has been sending love notes to your pets and your PBC breeding pair has become a love triangle! :O
Of course now you would like to know if the Mysterious Platinum DNA can be applied to breedings already in queue. Yes you can!
All you have to do is send the DNA to me followed by a note indicating which breeding you would like to attach it to. After doing so please make sure you immediately add the link to the third parent to the breeding notes, it would be unfortunate if missing information would slow the queue down.
Additionally, I'm happy to announce that the Painted Bottle may also be added to your Platinum breedings. For more information, please review the freshly updated Platinum KB article.
As always, if there are any questions, feel free to join me in the status thread. :)
~Vampi
Posted by » Vampi «
(#12221) on Sun Feb 2, 2014 6:14am
Welcome to February!
Site Update
Welcome to February!
Though February may be the shortest month of the year, it's going to be jam packed with new goodies, familiar favorites, and lots of love. :3
Let's kick off the second month of 2014 with two brand new batches of pets!
Show some love for the beautiful GP Shop pets looking for forever homes!
And be sure to visit the affectionate companions that await in the BP Shop!
If you colored one of these lovely pets, please contact Kyu (#1010) for your payment!
Make sure to send the PSDs for these pets in to [email protected] right away! Or I will break your crayons' collective heart.
Drink to a new month with our cherry-flavored Essence of February 2014!
This glass cordial (crafted in honor of cherry month) will turn your active pet into one of the February monthlies shown above.
The Premium Monthly Item is the Mysterious Platinum DNA, a PBC breeding add-on that mixes up genetics!
This Platinum Breeding Coin add on will let you include a third parent to influence your offspring. The third parent will not be on the profile of the offspring. Put the URL to the pet you own in the artist comments if you use this add on.
Our February birthday Lunaris isn't quite ready to bloom, but I will let you know as soon as it is!
(And we'll handle any necessary swaps/refunds for you asap.)
The new monthly contests have been announced!
However, there are a few changes I would like to highlight before you dive into your art program (they're good, I promise).
- We have brought back the USD payment option for the GP/BP Shop contests.
- The BP Shop contest payout for GP has been raised to 12 GP (up from 10).
- A link to the PSD file of your entry is now required for GP/BP Shop contests.
- All contest entries (GP/BP Shop and monthly custom game) now have a submission form and have had their templates spruced up!
(These changes are not retroactive and apply only to contests moving forward.)
We are hoping that these changes positively impact the amount, variety and quality of entries we receive. :3 Additional tweaks may be made in the future, but we'd like to see how this goes!
And without further ado, here are the contests:
March Monthly Pets - BP Shop: Enter
March Monthly Pets - GP Shop: Enter
March Monthly Customs
Theme: Pi Day
Good luck with your entries!
The Nova custom makers will remain in the GP/BP Shops this month and will rotate to the Premium Outlet in March, then will return to the GP/BP Shops for April and May.
We are also refreshing the Token genera list with...
... the Serafex! (Our mutant friend from this poll).
You can now upload your very own silly Serafex with Metal, Bronze, Blue or Gold Tokens.
Click the image above to download the PSD!
The Serafex does not have any unique rules, and you'll be seeing a coloration submission thread pop up for it soon!
Coding Corner
A monthly update from behind the scenes!
- the Adventure Revamp Team is hard at work! If you haven't visited the thread yet, you can peruse the pages to see what sorts of things this team is wrestling with.
- staff is focused on enhancing the Knowledge Base and removing outdated information/defunct pages from the site.
- we know that everyone is missing our handy search, which unfortunately has had some programming hiccups, so this task has been assigned to a new programmer who will be able to tackle it this month. You can check on this thread to see Slash's updates for more info.
There's plenty of other things we'll be tinkering this month, along with new surprises and events to look forward to, especially since love is in the air!
Love Letters: Coming soon to a lair near you!
(If you have any Love Letters hanging around from last year, DO NOT attempt to use them yet. There will be an announcement when it's safe to bombard one another with our favorite red and pink envelopes! And if you have no idea what I'm talking about because this is your first Valentine's Day with us, stay tuned! :D)
With lots of platonic love,
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Sat Feb 1, 2014 9:13pm
Lots of base rollover!
Items
All right! Lots of stuff to go through in this news post before Eri bombards you with the big February starter ;)
First, some updates to the Painted Breeding Coin! There's a brand new talisman stocking in the USD Shop that gives you a little discount on buying three PLBCs separately, for those who may be interested.
Also, two new add-ons have been released for the coin: the Painted Pen which lets you indicate three public PLBC artists you approve of having your breeding assigned to (like a lesser Artist Ticket, basically), and the Painted Gold, which opens the coin up to including Lunaris, Vion, Flux, Selkie, Serrul, Finn.
In other news, the Koaf, Serrul, and Selkie were added to the genera allowed to be bred with the coin without the use of addons. Xaocs, Neuras, and Violinns are the only genera excluded at the moment.
Our bundle of new Breeding Addons is in!
You can now get star/celestial themes, plushie themes, pirate themes, ocean themes, nature themes, music themes, elemental themes, and dragon themes with your breeding. Most of these stock in the BP Shop, with the exception of the Ocean, Music, and Element add-ons which are exclusive to the Random Breeding Addon.
The Metal Ball was a requested addon for Holiday Breeding Coins, which indicates to the artist that there should be no edits added to the bases. That's available for a minor amount in the BP Shop as well.
The Foo Fang is a special SCC species donated by Vulture! It is available in the USD Shop as well for $7.99.
It allows for 50% edits.
The Jeweled Crystal is saying goodbye to its old bases and welcoming in new ones!
These were made by Vulture and Liv.
New item! The Jeweled Hybrid Crystal works similar to the above. Here are the monthly bases for it:
This is in the USD Shop for $9.99. The bases were made by Miss Mally.
Firehazard has been coloring site-paid Jeweled Crystals, which you can buy (with their upload) for a Metal Paint Brush. Jeweled Hybrids and Foo Dogs both have a price of a Blue Paintbrush, so if any of that interests you, be sure to stop by. She's very productive and makes tons of designs!
As an aside, we know that some of you don't like the USD Shop, but you do need to consider this: the USD Shop has stabilized Aywas' rocky income for the past two months it's been open. Not only have we been able to pay large work advances to reliable members of the breeding team, but we've been able to fund everything the PBC team has been producing without having to limit the number of PBC breedings assigned a week to a budget. This is all good news and thanks to the stabilized income, and has made a huge difference in the labor we're able to afford.
Posted by JAK
(#15) on Sat Feb 1, 2014 1:03am
Help-a-Pet Totals
Site Update
The final totals are in!
Help-a-Pet week raised $1,645 for organizations from shelters to wildlife conservation charities!
Thank you so much for participating in our drive and supporting a cause important to you--and even more important to the animals that benefit from it. <3
Thanks again to Chianya (#12264) for hosting the drive!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Fri Jan 31, 2014 10:03pm
Trivia & Weekly Raffle!
Site Update
This week's raffle winner is:
auster (#51489)
Who had 5 crystals out of 15,832 total and won a Puggle Custom!
Congratulations!
Next week's winner will receive...
A Pastel Goth Frufru Trunk!
Set a reminder to snag those crystals!
Trivia
The trivia has been updated!
Last week's questions and answers revealed!
What is a feature of the Item Gallery?
all of the above
How much does it cost to abandon a pet to the adoption center?
it's free!
Which was not a genus given away by the adopt a custom game last month?
gael
What do you need to chant in front of the standing stones for strange magic to occur?
Read Rosetta
Where might one go to buy ethnic clothing in general?
Clothing of the World
How many genera does Miksa currently offer for sale?
17
Who gave a livestream lesson in shading?
MED #334
Who should you contact for Lunaris refunds?
Kyu #1010
How much did "Mysterious SCCs" cost?
50 Million BP
What (now defunct) potion could a Bonfire Finx be received from?
Bottled Summer
How many questions will you get correct this week?
Good luck!
- Eri
Posted by Eri & --
(#17) on Wed Jan 29, 2014 10:04pm