Yep, they only age when the game is on! (And the only way to 'pause' it, is to save and return to the game menu! Hitting Escape brings up a menu and you THINK it's paused, but it's not really...the dogs continue to do stuff in the background xD) And I hadn't been too into Niche so I didn't have it myself, but my sister plays it and talks about it a lot. So yep, aging only when the game is on for that one too, and I don't think that one applies to real time. It seems to be almost a turn-based game. If you sit with it on, nothing happens. It just starts to progress as you play.
I have to say though, I always hated real time games that make you wait to continue. ESPECIALLY if the wait time INCREASES the further you get. Like, I want to play a game...not wait around and be bored. I'm playing a game, likely, because I was ALREADY bored! So I HATE that. Thankfully it's really not too bad on Wobbledogs. The waiting period between the aging up periods is the same for each, or I hadn't noticed any differences. And the loading when they're being incubated or changing in their cocoon also seems to be about the same too. So honestly it doesn't bother me, and you always have something you're busy with that it balances it all out really well, I think!
My sister and I were talking tonight how it would be nice to have a laid-back, free-play version of the game. A small section where you don't breed or dogs don't die...where you can just kind of sit around and play with them. It seems like so much happens that we don't get to really interact with the dogs that much...that would be a cool little feature!
I don't mind them dying, as I KNOW I'll go into my animal hoarder mode and try and keep everyone...it's a way to manage the chaos I'd have brought on. But what I do like to do, is keep the Export codes of my favorite dogs saved in a word file, so if I ever want to use someone for breeding or nostalgia at any point, I can just import them in again and it's all good!
What kind of flora IS there for leaving the death on? o.O I had no idea!
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Updates from my game tonight:(Remember, drag and drop these into your address bar to see them better!)I got a prize doggie for completing an achievement, and I was so surprised when I put her in-game...SHE HAD A TAIL. I gave my sister her code, so she could play with her early...but she went and unlocked her for herself shortly after sooo...she got to raise two of them. xD (And they grew to look different from one another!) But anyway. We felt like cheaters to jump to breeding Granule's tail into our failing lines we'd made by scratch, so we gave it a few more tries.
No luck. We could seem to get any tails on our own, STILL. SOO we caved. We were delighted to find that Granule had many tails in her genetics, and we saw all shapes and sizes...plus a handful of new patterns too!! I wanted to collect a dog of each pattern, BUT THEN I NOTICED as they grow, the patterns CHANGE, and it's different how it happens depending on the dogs...so that's all a mess now. I don't even know what to do with those plans anymore. xDDD
So anyway, we just went back to breeding nifty tails with Granule's genetics and decided to wait and see what would happen.
Then I came across an extra special surprise I was absolutely NOT expecting...
This is where you get to meet the puppies you bred, and decide to keep one or pick two here to breed and the process repeats until you find one to keep. Anyway, I didn't think I was getting a lot of variation as they almost all looked like one of the parents...BUT THEN I SAW THE ONE ON THE LEFT...DO YOU SEE HIM? TAKE A GOOD LOOK.
HE HAS TWO HEADS!!HAD TO PICK HIM.
I named him Twins, and of course I shared him with my equally excited sister, and we prepared to watch them grow and get more two-headed puppies!
Things went VERY different, depending who you ask though!
THAT is what my sister's version of him looked like when he grew up! But mine? He changed in phases...for the worse...
That's the shape he SHOULD have stayed, and he only had on more age jump and he wouldn't have changed anymore...
But in the end, he looked like THIS!! And I can't fix it now that he's an adult! He has a small body, a long heavy tail, and tiny, weak stick legs that are too close together!! He could barely walk, and needed help standing up A LOT. What was worse, anything I bred with two heads started coming out with bodies like that...and I got desperate and asked my sister to share some of her better shaped ones so I could breed decent two headed dogs too. xDDD
I mean, look!! She had some to spare!! xDD That red and yellow two-headed dog in the middle kind of had a goof. Sometimes one of the heads goes wonky and gets stuck in weird positions...but it makes for funny picture captures like this!
Ah, but you know what else was fun? Tails. I FOUND A TAIL THAT INSPIRED AND EXCITED ME GREATLY...
Look!! IT'S A SQUIRREL TAIL!!
I COULD BREED
SQUIRRELS!!
...This particular Squirrel decided to rebel and turn green, but hey. I worked with what genetics I could use...and I fed them the right food to make them orange...
....And that's where THIS kicked off:
I MADE A SQUIRREL FAMILY!!!
The two in the background are Tiny (the original) and Stanley, her clone I gave so they could breed. The one on the right up front is Noodle, their son...aaaand Fritzy was adopted from my sister after I gave her a squirrel copy! SHE BRED ME A TWO-HEADED SQUIRREL!! x'DDD
Tina and Stanley have some spots, Noodle has a stripe, and I want to breed this generic look (maybe still get it smaller) but with different patterns! So I tried more later and got...
Waldo! He has a large dark patch on his back! He and Noodle have differing limb/head colorations. They went pale orange and brown instead of orange like their parents...so long as they still look squirrely, it's good enough for me!
I bred a few more, but they're not hatched yet. Soon!
This was the picture my sister sent me when Fritzy was born...she's so cute and perfect!
However, it didn't really last...
Her colors changed and I couldn't change them back to what they were before...so she looks something like this now. Not squirrely enough for me, but I guess she can stay with her family. xD
Also, the parent squirrels have MEAN traits. They're constantly going after their babies and trying to latch onto them and shake or drag them, trying to fight or hurt them! Then this happened:
Noodle went up in his cocoon to 'evolve' so to speak, and...I have NEVER seen this happen before...one of his parents lunged and bit the cocoon, and clung to it THE ENTIRE WAY UP and dangled there, gripping it, until it was time for me to open the cocoon and they all fell! What a vicious, determined little bugger I've created...
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And with all of that, I leave you with the best picture I got tonight...a very disturbed Present having a mini panic attack...right beside a deceased dog's head! "You want me to EAT IT?
" The positioning of it all was so perfect, I'm thrilled I got this picture xDD That absolutely cracked me up!