SupatGames
A one-person studio in the UK, making a game for people who read the standard before they judge the dog.
Closed test on Android. Nothing is public yet.
Dog show simulation game · Android
Breed, condition and campaign a kennel of pedigree dogs. Forty-two breeds, six in each of the seven groups, a hundred and seventy-nine coats from the standards, eyes in brown, amber or blue, eight judges who each want something different, and a Challenge Certificate that is genuinely hard to win.
Shown, not claimed
Every dog carries three generations you can read, and the coefficient of inbreeding under it is arithmetic, not flavour. Bramble of Ashgrove stands on both sides of this certificate, which makes the sire and dam half-siblings — and puts a number on what that costs.
Bramble stands on
both sides — the sire
and dam are half-siblings
Judge's critique — Mrs. E. Hartwell
“A good dog is made long before the ring. Rosette is about the months in between: the pairing you chose, the coat you brought up, and the morning you decided she was ready.”
The card, for the season ahead
Eight phases, written down before any of them was built, each one earning the next. Everything on the list is here, including the dull parts. No dates — one person builds this, and an order is the only honest promise. Hover a phase to read it.
None of this is a feature. It is everything that has to be true before a stranger can play, and most of it is done. It sits on the card because a game that hides its plumbing is a game that surprises you with it later.
Being worked on now
That is the whole card, dull parts included. One thing is deliberately missing: players never type at each other — the offers, the asks and the mailbox are all built out of fixed choices, and they stay that way.