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[dead] alex95
How is this in any way productive, exciting or informative? Just looks like a link to some pile of crap.
TazeTSchnitzel
Oh gosh, the standalone redistributable flash player with a swf embedded. I remember those.
jacquesm
Adobe 'air'? Pretty much Adobe trying to re-make java the flash way.
theinternetman
Could always tell when you were using a Flex or Air UI, they had a very distinctive clunkiness.
malux85
I would love a modernized tamagothi, I live in London and aren't allowed pets, but I would love a wee virtual cat.

Face recognition is at the point where you can recognise different faces (members in the family) so that would make the kitty happy and play a bit. Throw a ball around and play fetch, that sort of thing

jacquesm
The 'tamagothi' is a parody of the Tamagotchi ('the little egg'), I think you meant the latter.
TazeTSchnitzel
That should be tamagotchi. It's a geminated 'ch', at least in the original Japanese.
jacquesm
Ah yes, thank you!
coderdude
I like that. "Thanks for nitpicking my spelling."

As if no one could figure out what you were talking about.

jacquesm
> Thanks for nitpicking my spelling

I didn't write that, you did, I did upvote the GP, and my thanks were sincere. To expand on that I'm more than happy to have mistakes corrected so at least I don't end up propagating wrong spellings or ideas or to have them further ingrained. Actually, I'm stupid for not looking it up.

coderdude
Mine was a jerk comment. Not going to attempt to defend that.
gregorkas
You should try My Talking Tom - http://talkingtomandfriends.com/tom/. (links to stores in the link). If you're more keen on female cats, there's also My Talking Angela (or other virtual pets from the series). Check it out, it's really well made and tons of fun ;).
irremediable
Wow, just realised how similar this would be to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

I find android animals like that cool, but also kind of creepy.

guiomie
You can`t have a pet in London?
zamalek
I owned one of these. I remember them being a genuine problem in school. Some parents would actually agree to look after the pet while the child was at school - not bad for such a simple algorithm.
SmellyGeekBoy
Oh wow, I remember this from my school days! (and the Tamagotchi on which it is based, of course). Funny to see it still online. I remember 13-year-old me thinking it was hilarious at the time...

Thanks for the nostalgia trip, OP.

mbrutsch
> (and the Tamagotchi on which it is based, of course).

Thanks for that, I thought I was in another Berenstain time loop for a second.

kriro
I remember the Tamagotchi crazy back in the day (this is a very well done play on it, really enjoyed the linked site) but never owned one (and am not sure how they worked exactly on a technical level). I wonder if it is technically possible that some of them are still "alive"? I wonder if the programmers made any implicit assumptions about lifespan that were tested by now (assuming the batteries could be changed without "killing" them).
phowat
Yes, tamagotchis did age and eventually died even if taken care of.
AndrewHart
I made a modern virtual pet, for iOS and Apple Watch. Apple Watch seems like the perfect modern form factor for one of these.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/raise-emoji/id1045353760

vikashkoushik
Hey, Andrew! It'd be great if you can add more features to it? Something like, different activities as the emoji grows, giving it a name when it is born, difference in gender, dating with other emojis, etc. I grew my emoji till 32 years old and I noticed there was nothing new in it.
J-dawg
This got me thinking, a virtual pet could be a great way of gameifying positive activities. Maybe you could exercise your pet by going for a run yourself, or make it more intelligent by doing a language tutorial. You could connect any fitness or learning app that provides an API. Every pet would end up being unique because of the unique combination of activities done by the owner.

Right now I can't figure out if that's a good idea or a really terrible one. Do I really want a virtual dog looking at me angrily all day because I didn't take him for his morning walk?

hashkb
I tried some of those operations (beat, specifically) on some of my sister's 'gotchis; mostly affects the owner, I found.
jmnicolas
There's probably a joke in the name but being not a native speaker can someone explain it to me please ?
Conlectus
It's Tamogachi but with the word "Goth" (short for Gothic, typically used to describe macabre / death-related things. Lots of the colour black, etc.).
greggman
As an aside, the game that launched the Sony Pocketstation was inspired by tamagochi. "Doko demo issho"

You played with your characters and they would ask you questions like "Tell me something you like". You'd type in something like say "banana". The character would then ask something like "Is it something you (a) use (b) eat (c) drive (d) wear ..." and it might ask "How much do you like it? (a) a lot (b) so-so (c) a little".

Later you might meet a friend, Jill, with a pocketstation. The pocketstations could communicate via infrared. You'd play hangman against each other. While that was happening, in the background the game would transfer some (all?) of your info.

Later you'd be playing with your character and it might say "Hey, did you know Jill really likes bananas?"

It was a big hit in Japan. It never came out in the USA IIRC.