Comments on: Dev Diary #16: Foster Homes for Imaginary Dogs http://totherescuegame.com/dev-diary-16-foster-homes-for-imaginary-dogs/ The dog shelter simulator Wed, 06 Jan 2021 04:55:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: ocdunlap http://totherescuegame.com/dev-diary-16-foster-homes-for-imaginary-dogs/#comment-14 Wed, 06 Jan 2021 04:55:19 +0000 http://totherescuegame.com/?p=968#comment-14 In reply to Jade Mele.

Thanks so much for your comment, Jade! And thanks for sharing your story about Fiona. The idea of ‘sleep overs’ is a fantastic idea and I love that your local shelter is doing things like that. You totally hit the nail on the head in some ways with what we’re going for, in terms of representing real world problems the best we can. Right now it is planned that fosters will occasionally decide to keep dogs in their care because they fall in love with them: not unlike you and Fiona!!! But the idea of foster homes entering the program with the *intent* to eventually keep one is a great idea that we will definitely keep in mind.

Give Fiona some good scritches from us in the meantime <3

]]> By: Jade Mele http://totherescuegame.com/dev-diary-16-foster-homes-for-imaginary-dogs/#comment-13 Wed, 30 Dec 2020 03:15:52 +0000 http://totherescuegame.com/?p=968#comment-13 I think having a fostering system is fantastic! I personally have fostered with ‘intent to adopt’ twice, and our second time we fell head over heels with our shy pooch Fiona. We even got to submit a ‘Happy Tail’ and got to update the shelter on how she’s doing; They love photos! I think the foster network in TTR would be amazing because it’s true that fosters do a lot of work. In fact, the shelter I rescued Fiona from (Humane Society of Sarasota County; Website linked below) has a thing called ‘Sleep Overs’ where eligible pets can be taken home for a trial period before adopting. (3-30 days) I think that would be interesting to see in this game, regular fosters and intent to adopt fosters. Our first foster was a rowdy Pitbull named Jasper, and while things didn’t work out, we did manage to train him quiet a bit and it helped him a lot since shelters can’t always train every single dog! It would be cool to see ‘experienced dog owners/fosters’ be able to take a dog with a negative trait, and change it, like we did with Jasper. Or even have fosters who don’t intend to adopt, fall in love with their pup. I think closely representing the real world is a nice change of pace, especially with animal games, because they’re always the same. All smiles and happy endings. Which I don’t mind, but in a shelter things aren’t always that way. Dogs get returned, dogs get moved to different shelters, dogs sometimes have multiple fosters. In my opinion, representing real world problems within a shelter would make this game stand out much more than ‘just another pet game’. Thank you so much for all the hard work you guys are doing, can’t wait to play!

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