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Personally, I think a little more feedback into what effect each action has would be good. I couldn't figure out if the buttons did anything at all except change the animation. Perhaps a status bar showing the hunger/thirst/boredom going up or whatever.

The animations and the aestetic are great though!

I thought clicking around different combinations of buttons to discover what would happen was part of the fun. I kept trying to kill it to no avail.

I'm actually laughing out loud at that statement.

What a neat game, let's see what it does. Nah. Let's kill it.

Humans. So weird.

I think that this is supposed to be similar to the classic tamagotchi's off of the 90's. There were no status bars (like a real pet) and figuring it out was part of the charm . I do think that if the pet is really hungry/thirsty/tired there should be an a different animation, like pointing to mouth for hunger.

I agree animations and aesthetic are awesome (much better than the original LCD pixel Tamagotchi's).

just put debug=1 into the location bar.

I did it, no wonder it has exhausted face, the fatigue bar is too high

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