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Super Auto Pets replaces emoji artwork with new animal picsUsing emojis for game art was a clever idea
Using emojis for game art was a clever idea
When Super Auto Pets first started, Team Wood Games leaned heavily on emojis to create the game’s art, using critters from the publicly licensed emoji libraries of Google, Twitter, and FireFox. It wasn’t the most consistent look, but it was cute enough and it did work. I really respected that decision to use available artwork to get a great game up and running faster. Team Wood did start creating their own animal art from the second expansion onwards, but animals in the base set and first expansion had been emojis until today.
The new art for the old pets often has a similar-ish pose or colours to the originals, though they’re certainly cheerier and sillier. Animals from the new expansion look tweaked a little too, with some different colours and expressions.
I like quite a few of the new old pets, but some are big misses for me. Thankfully, you can switch them back. Head into the Customize/Pets menu and you can switch any individual animal between their Classic and Standard looks, as well as switching all at once. I’m not feeling some of the new sounds either.
Today’s patch also added a Hard Mode for serious animal fighters. After every shop tier upgrade, you have to pick a new negative perk (a toy, to use the in-game term) that’ll hinder your run. Maybe you’ll choose to give your opponent bonus stats, or ink your own pets, or damage your pets when their pals faint, or lose money when you buy from the shop, or… some of them might help the right build a bit, but mostly they’ll screw with you.
Oh no
I’m glad thatmy favourite auto-battleris presumably doing well enough for the developers to pay for new art. It’s a cracking game (our favourite games of 2021too) and extremely generous, with a huge amount available for free.
You can play Super Auto Pets freefrom Steamor in your browseron Itch.io, as well as on iOS and Android. The base set of pets is free, as is the best mode (the rotating Weekly pack of random pets and items), while expansions and a few of the cosmetics cost cash. It is extremely generous.
