Riverton, a nostalgic adoptables browser game

[xandra]

think neopets and flightrising, but with horses and 'real-life' animals that takes place in the american pacific northwest in the 1990s!

i made this game as a big project to learn PHP, and it's grown since then! there's quite a bit to do at the moment, and i have a whole roadmap planned. my favorite aspects right now are the avatar creator and boba cafe minigame! :) this has been such a fun way for me to learn. i actually get excited to code PHP. what?! hah!

wanted to share here in case interests overlap! :3

https://visitriverton.com

[Melooon]

Helooo  This is a wildly impressive first PHP project! And I do agree, once you get into the weeds with a good PHP site they can be very addictive!

If I had one bit of feedback for this, Id say it would be nice if I could do more without making an account. It's kinda hard to tell what you actually do on it, so it's hard to tell if Id enjoy it! I would like to trail run this cafe minigame!

[xandra]

thank you so much!!! for the kind words and the feedback!! <3

what would be the best way to do that, do you think? everything is dependent upon PHP so everything saved goes to the database, not in cookies. typically, adoptable sites like this do require signup, unfortunately! t-t

[Melooon]

what would be the best way to do that, do you think?

Hmmm, I thought about this and my suggestion is to make guest visitors a logged in account Instead of having a logged-out state, auto-login all guests to a special account, add a few safe guards for that account such as making name inputs come from auto generated lists instead of user input, and only lock out features that could do real harm, plus add a script that resets the variables of that account every 24 hours.

Not only do you give people a fully interactive demo, but you even create a weird sort of collective speed run account where people can do as much as possible in 24 hours

[xandra]

oooh! that's an idea!! i'll see if i can do something like that :)