Play Wild – BETA!

Please watch the video if you're curious about yourself getting into beta testing. A lot of the questions you've asked in the comments are answered around the beginning. 

Hey Jammers! I've recently finished two big school projects, so you should be looking forward to more interesting posts as well as the monthly Berry the Koala entry of January soon. Many posts will still be a bit late in the day (3:30 PM – 4:00 PM EST) so I'm sorry for that, but I'm trying hard to make the daily post quality higher!

EDIT: This post is so crazy late. It took really long to finish, so it's better and more thought out...? I really hope its quality erases the fact that it's freaking nighttime here. 

I think I'd classify this as a "quality" post. It's gonna be MEGA long, but (I hope) very informational on a topic that y'all seem to be interested in... Play Wild beta testing! I hope you make some time to read this, I think you'd like to stay to the end. :)

But before we begin with that, the daily item is sold in Jam Mart Furniture.

A sun lamp! That looks like a sun! How clever!

You can switch it on and off by clicking. A ton of items are interactive these days...

And now the main focus of this post: A few of you have been commenting "DOOMY, SAY SOMETHING ABOUT PLAY WILD!!!" and I took them into consideration, yes I did... But then I forgot to post about them until now!! So here you have it, screenshots as well as a really nice video of the new Play Wild app!

Whoa...

Just, whoa.

It's amazing how we take the beautiful graphics on AJ for granted all the time. I couldn't think they could get any prettier, but now with the Play Wild app they've smoothed out the pixel-y appearance of the online version and added even MORE depth to things! Look at the shadows and the light on the ground! They even have the lady bug! 

The image above is credit to mimi5000 of Animal Jam Spirit!

And now the following is an extensive video on every corner of beta so far! This was a video made by WisteriaMoon, not me. Don't credit me for this, I just wanna show it to you all! It was recommended to me by Animal Jammer. (The link goes to their Google plus, I forgot their username but I'm sure I have them on my buddy list!)

This also includes how to get into beta testing! But don't worry, it will be out soon.

Now I'm going to include screenshots from the video because if you'd care to check you'd see it's a whopping 34 minutes. So here's a brief overview of everything so far for those who don't have much time!

But if you do have the time, I highly recommend you watch the video. For a game in beta testing riddled with glitches, the animal animations flow so well! There's water that rushes and makes water sounds, and in Zios there's frog and cricket sounds... It's amazing.

The people who worked on this game put so much effort into making it beautiful. If you look closely, you'll see the dust particles floating in the rays of sunlight! The same Jam Mart music plays in here, but this is an entirely different layout. I actually love it! 

There's no single catalog with every item. You can buy each item on the tables individually, too. 

The pillow room is about the same layout as online. Why change it? It's lovely and peaceful as it is...

...Especially because there are no adoptions yet.

Club Geoz has the same music on– thank goodness AJHQ didn't pull a Club Penguin and hop on the dubstep train. I'm really grateful for that. Honestly.

They've almost completely perfected the illusion of depth with this game! Your vision is altered accordingly with where you are, unlike online AJ with everything being one unmoving room.

Like in the clothing shop, there are items stacked and splayed almost randomly, all of which you can buy individually. But there is a den item catalog. A literal catalog you click:

This is one of my favorite rooms so far. My first favorite is the den, though. You'll see why later...

Zios is aaaamazing! There are frog sounds, cricket sounds, water sounds... It's lovely. No rooms or games are open yet except for Falling Phantoms:

A lot more scenic than online AJ, hmmm?

Crystal Sands is gorgeous but empty. You can go down the water slide! The water is much better animated than many more popular games, just a comment. This game is so lovely!!!

Coral Canyons is detailed. If you ever get the game, be sure to check out where the waterfall pool is! It's so... [insert not-yet-used synonym for amazing]!

You can watch videos in Sarepia Theater! There's also a theater lobby, too.

But let's not forget Sarepia itself...

You can see so much from this little screenshot alone. But you really should watch the video to see the full extent of the graphics!!  The trees sway in the wind and cast shadows on the ground! Oh my gosh! Oh my goshhh!!!! why am I so obsessed with shadows and lighting

This is the character decorating page. Plants everywhere!!! I'm so excited for the leaves!!!! HELP ME THIS IS SO AMAZING

And now the best for last, the amazing, super beautiful dens!!!

I just... I can't say anything. Literally nothing. This is text on a screen, I haven't said anything for the past 30 minutes.

It seems that you can place clothing in your den! You see the shirt icon at the bottom listing the types of items you can put in your den. Maybe I misread it, but it's a fun idea!

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It's a beautiful, breathtaking game so far.

Hey, you wanna know what this reminds me of?

There's a fairly new (and incredibly expensive) technology really popular with gamers called an Oculus Rift. You basically put it over your eyes and become fully visually immersed in a game– all you see is the game.

Often you need to use a special first person version of the specified game and more often than not it's 3D-ified, for example the Flappy Bird version where you ARE the flappy bird.

Aside from being in third person, Play Wild is a lot how I'd imagine a first person version of AJ. Wouldn't it be cool if there was a first person version of AJ? It's a cool idea, admit it.

And finally, that's all for now. Jammers.

If you liked this post, please check out my more recent ones as well. ^_^

– DoomyPanda