What is the future of Sensipets?
The future of Sensipets is bright 🌞! We have a lot of things planned for this new burgeoning virtual pet site. We believe in reinventing education through storytelling and that is what we plan to do with Sensipets. While we are still finalizing our roadmap, we want to be as transparent as possible for everyone to understand where we are going.
Before the Fall
From now until this Fall 🍂 we are looking at doing a few things:
- Code virtual pet site functionality
- Refine the story and lore of Sensipets
- Prepare for a Kickstarter
Code virtual pet site functionality
To make this effort work, we need the functionality that most virtual pet sites have. Easy to use communication tools, fun quests, challenging games, and functionality that allow you to immerse yourself in the world of Sensipets. We realize that a few things are missing, and we are working on it! If there is anything you want to make sure we have, please let us know in the forums!
Refine the story and lore of Sensipets
Since initially creating Sensipets, @Howey has become obsessed with storytelling; he has participated in various tabletop games, which require building characters, worlds, and plots. This is a key concept that we are bringing into Sensipets. Virtual pet sites tend to have stories, but they are self-contained and do not always give the users a feeling of impact. We want to change this. @Howey and @Heffrad are working with friends to help create a world that users want to explore and learn more about.
A lot of what you see on the site today is from the 2014 Sensipets, so things will be changing. As we get closer to Fall, we will be moving characters around, changing stores, reworking items, and working towards a realignment of the world of Sensipets.
Prepare for a Kickstarter (Fall 🍂 )
We want to reinvent education through storytelling, but unfortunately this requires money. At this time, we are working on Sensipets in our spare time - which is limited. We have a roadmap we are working towards, it includes functionality, deadlines, and tasks we need to complete before Fall 2021. Once these are complete, we plan on launching a Kickstarter campaign. We are not 100% positive for the goal, but we want to raise enough money so that we can work on Sensipets full-time and create a virtual pet site that encourages and entices users to better themselves while playing. This is part of where our merchandise push has been coming from. We are seeing what interests users and what doesn’t. Having an open-alpha and slowly rolling out merchandise, we are hoping to define effective reward tiers, to ensure success of our Kickstarter. We wish we did not need to ask our supporters for money, but it is the only way to ensure this idea is given the attention and focus it needs to succeed.
That is what we see for Sensipets until we launch the Kickstarter campaign. While we do have more planned, we are trying to keep that hush, hush for now. We want to launch a campaign that blows everyone out the water. We will tease more as we move forward, and we will always listen to all feedback. Please let us know if you think this is something you are interested in and if you have any questions or concerns.
Until tomorrow...