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About Hatching Games
There are a lot of free online games that feature hatching and raising creatures online for easy amusement. The best known is probably Dragon Cave, but here are a few others.
Most of these games involve adopting a creature, usually by collecting a graphic and then displaying it online (e.g. in Forum signatures) where people can view it or click on it. Some games require both views and click, some only clicks. Over time the creature will develop and grow as people pay attention to it.
Some of the more popular versions are below.
Other Relevant Lenses:
An Introduction to Dragon Cave, Types of Dragons in Dragon Cave, Valenth - Mystery Science Adoptibles, Arvyre Pets, Magistream - Pet raising game, My Mini City
Free Online Games
All about creature raising online
- Display your creatures
- Mystery Egg Adoption
- Valenth - Science and Fantasy Adoptables
- Magistream - New Game!
- Virtuadopt
- Dragon Cave
- Arvyre Pets
- My Mini City
- DNAdopt (Formerly Adoptalicious)
- Unicreatures
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Favorite Raising Sim
What is your favorite hatching or pet raising sim? Online Free-to-play raising sims only please!
Display your creatures
Why not make your own lens?
- 5 minutes
- no coding needed
- get views and clicks
- earn money for charity while you do it
Mystery Egg Adoption
Mysterious eggs that hatch on a certain date...
Mystery Egg adoption is a game where you collect an egg from a page and put it on your webpage or sig. The game is free to play and the eggs are controlled by time, hatching on a set date. (The photo to the left hatched on 1st December).The egg's code is only supplied in BBCode for Forums signatures. If you want to use it on a webpage you would need to amend this to HTML. Once the egg has hatched, you have five days to download the creature's image to your server before it is deleted.
Homepage: Mystery Egg Adoption
Requirements: Egg hatches on set date.
Limits on eggs: None, but only three are available at any one time.
Converting an egg to HTML
The code you get for your egg looks like this. The two important pieces of information I have put in bold and italic.
[url=http://pixel.alittlebitofmagick.com/egg_a.html][IMG]http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e47/trishagj/Pixel%20Perfect/12-208.gif[/IMG][/url]
To show it on a webpage you need to convert to HTML. Type the code below into your page, and replace the bold and italic pieces with the details from your egg.
<a href="http://pixel.alittlebitofmagick.com/egg_a.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e47/trishagj/Pixel%20Perfect/12-208.gif" alt="Mystery Egg adoption" /></a>
Squidoo Lens
Valenth - Science and Fantasy Adoptables
Raise your creature from a testube
Example creature:
Feed Me!
Adopted from Valenth
It starts in a test tube, but some high level creatures (level 1000+!) are visible on the forums to give you an idea of what they can turn into. You can get an egg without registering, but need to register on the forums to get the full facilities.
The help pages are currently being updated so this might not be the best time to start playing the game. However the forums are still active, so you should be able to get any help you need there. There is currently a 50 creature adoption limit in place, however the servers have just been upgraded so the game might develop further.
Homepage: Valenth - Science and Fantasy Adoptables
Requirements: Creatures require clicks to grow, but have no time limit.
Limits on eggs: No more than 50 creatures per player.
Useful Links:
Adopt here: Adopt a Creature here
The old Lore section Help and FAQs
Lens: http://www.squidoo.com/Valenth
Magistream - New Game!
Collect eggs from the Magi's stream
Users are rewarded for clicking on eggs as they receive gold which can be used to buy rarer creatures. Once again however, the game requries donations to obtains rarer creatures, so it scrapes in under the "Free" part of this - if only because there is such a variety of creatures available for free users anyway.
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Magistream - the online hatching game
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Magistream is a new online hatching game. I am fairly new to it, but this lens will include more details as I learn about the game. Lens image from freeclipartnow.com Other Relevant Lenses: Free Online Hatching Games, An Introduction to Dragon Cave,...
Virtuadopt
Example Egg:
This game allows you to adopt an egg and display it in your sig, as many do.
It is easy to play - you simply name the egg on the adopt page and are given BBCode and HTML codes to embed on webpages and signatures.
Unlike the other game shown here, Virtuadopt is in a state of transit at the moment. It is currently seeking people to help code or to sprite to replace the current sprites it uses, and the forums are down.
Homepage: http://www.virtuadopt.unl.pl/index.php
Requirements: Eggs need clicks, but there are no time limits
Limits on eggs: None known.
Note: The HTML link to the eggs will open in the same window by default. To correct this amend the code by adding target="_blank" where shown. e.g.
<a href="http://www.virtuadopt.unl.pl/feed.php?id=1866">
becomes
<a href="http://www.virtuadopt.unl.pl/feed.php?id=1866" target="_blank">
Dragon Cave
Dragon Cave is a game where you find and raise dragon eggs, and then breed them to continue the process over again.The game is at http://www.dragcave.net
Homepage: http://www.dragcave.net
Requirements: Eggs require views and clicks to hatch and must hatch within seven days. Hatchlings then have a further seven days and require more views and clicks to mature.
Limits:A maximum of four eggs or four hatchlings at any one time.
Dragon Cave already has its own lenses:
http://www.squidoo.com/DragonHatchery
http://www.squidoo.com/DragonBreeding
http://www.squidoo.com/DragonCatalogue
DragonCave store on CafePress
Dragon Cave Logo White T-Shirt
Show off your love of dragons with the Dragon Cave Logo! 15% of the price goes to the site, and 5% of the price goes to the artist who created the design.
Price: 17.99
Dragon Cave Logo Trucker Hat
Show off your love of dragons with the Dragon Cave Logo! 15% of the price goes to the site, and 5% of the price goes to the artist who created the design.
Price: 13.19
Dragon Cave Logo Value T-shirt
Show off your love of dragons with the Dragon Cave Logo! 15% of the price goes to the site, and 5% of the price goes to the artist who created the design.
Price: 10.79
Dragon Cave Logo Cap
Show off your love of dragons with the Dragon Cave Logo! 15% of the price goes to the site, and 5% of the price goes to the artist who created the design.
Price: 17.99
Arvyre Pets
Arvyre Pets is a new hatching game. You can register and then select one of four eggs from the adopt site to raise. Once registered, you click on an egg and name it to raise it.Your eggs are raised by clicks and the details are supplied with BBCode and HTML. You can click on your own egg once per day, which is useful if you don't have anywhere to display it.
The "My adoptables" page shows you your creatures, but also lets you know how many clicks it needs to level up.
Homepage: http://arvyre.com/pets/
Requirements: Eggs require clicks.
Limits: None currently known
Example egg
Note: Like virtupets, this one opens in your existing window. Add target="_blank" to the a href tag to resolve this. See the virtupets example for exact placement.
(with thanks to Kiki for the heads up on this game)
Arvrye Pets now has its own lens:
http://www.squidoo.com/Arvrye
Currently migrating servers - the game will be back after Easter!
My Mini City
Unfortunately the game only gives you the URL for clicks - you need to turn it into BBCode or HTML to embed it. However no registration is necessary, so there is nothing to stop a group of people adopting the same city. French and Spanish translation is also available.
I have set up a test city here A-Spire. Feel free to have a look around and get a feel for the game.
Website: http://www.myminicity.com
Lens: http://www.squidoo.com/MyMiniCity
DNAdopt (Formerly Adoptalicious)
Formerly Adoptalicious
To play you need to register on the forum. They by clicking on other players pets you gain Research Points (RPs) which you can use in the shops on site to buy your own pets. This means that, unlike most games, players directly benefit by helping other people out which creates a strong community spirit.
Homepage: http://dnadopts.com/
Requirements: Level up other users' pets.
Limits: None currently known - but you have to gain RPs by helping otjher players in order to get your pets.
(with thanks to John for letting me know about this one)
Unicreatures
A free game with commercial add-ons
The pets are obtained free from the homepage, and require "visits" - in practice clicks by viewers - to gain points. Once they have enough points the owner can choose to level them up.
Homepage: http://www.unicreatures.com
Requirements: Clicks and "Training energy" (bought in stores or regenerated over time.
Limits: Registration and donations are required to access all the facilities of the game.
(And thanks to Aurora for bringing this one to my attention)
Neopets - the largest pet sim online
Virtual pets in plushies
Neopets
Accumulate Neopoints by games and competitions to raise your pet. Unlike some sims the pets cannot die unless you kill them. Registration is required to play.
Neopets Collector Figure 2 Pack Series 1 - Faerie Cybunny and Pink Ona with 2 Accessories and Virtual Prize
Amazon Price: $3.99 (as of 12/18/2009)
NeoPets Series No.5 - 5" Authentic Collector Plush
Amazon Price: $59.98 (as of 12/18/2009)
Neopets 6" Orange Yurble Plush Doll
Amazon Price: $2.75 (as of 12/18/2009)
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Raising discussion
What's your favoutire sim?
Discussing raising pets, eggs and other games you'd like to see added here.
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- tirial tirial Nov 9, 2009 @ 12:37 am | in reply to Person
- Because you're the first person to submit it. No one has suggested it before.
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- Person Person Nov 8, 2009 @ 5:10 pm
- With all of the sites you have, how could you have forgotten gpxplus.net?!
(gpxplus.net/user/xXelmoscaresmeXx)
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- voltaire voltaire Jun 12, 2009 @ 6:46 am
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- drifter drifter Jun 8, 2009 @ 1:25 am
- waz upz
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- gaby gaby May 2, 2009 @ 12:52 pm | in reply to Aurora
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Make your lens for your game
Promote a hatching game!
If you have a game you love, then why not make your own page for it? As I found out, it's a great way to show off your pets! (And if you let me know, then I'll add it to this page!)
Other Hatching Game Lenses
There are a number of Hatching games online and I am working on a network of lenses to cover them. Let me know if there's one I should add!-
Valenth - Mystery egg hatching
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As part of the Dragon Cave game, players raise and breed Dragons. The page is designed to give some help to those players trying to breed their Dragons. Whether you plan to give the eggs away, establish a lineage, or are just trying to get rares to...
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My Mini City - a city sim game
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MyMiniCity is an online sim game where you can develop a city by means of clicks from online visitors. These clicks affect six aspects of the city, helping it to grow. Choose where in the world you want your city to be based, create it (no registrati...
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Dragon Cave - the online hatching game
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This Lens is about Dragon Cave, an online game where you raise Dragons from eggs by getting clicks and views. Specifically, it is also a place to share, display and discuss your dragons. If you are an advanced player looking for advice on Breeding D...
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Arvyre Pets - an online hatching game
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Arvyre Pets is a free online game where you can adopt creatures and hatch them by giving them clicks. Its has a few useful features, as creatures don't die from neglect and you can see how many more clicks you need to grow it. The game is still in d...
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