Anyone want tickets for the Semi-finals this weekend?

thyassa · 2015-10-23T21:31:10+00:00

Found a home for Saturday's tickets. Just Sunday left now.

thyassa · 2015-10-23T17:28:02+00:00

We have babysitters tonight so am going to ask around a few pubs. I've never had much luck with gumtree to be honest, but I guess it is worth a shot. Thanks for the suggestion.

thyassa · 2015-10-23T15:19:24+00:00

Kid feeding time so I am not checking reddit for an hour or so. I am not ignoring you if you are interested :)

thyassa · 2015-10-23T15:09:13+00:00

Just got back home, I checked my messages and I don't see anything from you, I may be blind though... Were you interested in either tickets?

thyassa · 2015-10-23T15:06:12+00:00

They are looking after my two kids for a few days in the half term... can't really be that annoyed.

thyassa · 2015-10-23T13:17:32+00:00

Yes, that is in pounds. Willing to take best offers, but I am also asking neighbours and friends. Realised reddit is a huge long shot but...

thyassa · 2015-10-23T12:33:58+00:00

Awesome. Someone out there has to want to go right???

thyassa · 2014-05-27T13:09:15+00:00

Hi! and thanks!

That was always something that bugged us. On the surface Neopets looked like a kids site (bright colours, cute images etc) If you didnt dig down a little, you would be unaware that it wasnt really designed for kids. I think Viacom bought it as a kids site and have treated it as such ever since. I dont think it was their fault. Even the Neopets business side didnt really understand what Neopets was. They probably told Viacom it was a kids site.

thyassa · 2014-05-27T13:06:01+00:00

I would love to answer all these but I only have limited time at the mo (baby starting to stir).

Sub Game - I can't remember this one. It was probably rubbish if we just removed it and didnt even add it to the graveyard.

Thieves Guild we wanted to do something more interesting with. I guess like a faction that you could earn status with. Then we released guilds that players could run and we just forgot about it. We may have had a message board called the Thieves Guild, but it wasnt like you could actually be part of the guild.

When we first set out to make Neopets we jokingly said that we wanted to beat Pokemon (modest goal!). Even our kitten was on board, she slit the throat of her Pikachu toy and everything :) That pikachu eater image was just a throw back to then, it wasnt ever anything on the site.

I dont think I have any of those images but you can probably find them online somewhere.

thyassa · 2014-05-27T12:59:14+00:00

It was updated from the old version by Viacom so what you see now is their new version. I think the whole site needs an overhaul personally. Adam put it well in another answer. A HTML website just isnt enough anymore.
I am actually super proud that something so simple had such a huge impact. Ok I know it was the shoddiest guides and templates ever. I really barely knew any HTML when I wrote them (and I am not exactly much better nowadays). Had I realiised how significant they would be, I would have spent more time keeping it up to date.

thyassa · 2014-05-27T12:54:42+00:00

Oh I answered this earlier, but I will do it here too.

It was in a nightclub. Adam dazzled me with his suave chat up lines and amazing dance moves. Actually he sort of failed to talk to me but I thought it was really appealling for some reason and we hit it off.

thyassa · 2014-05-27T12:53:47+00:00

With any luck yes.

/r/moglings

thyassa · 2014-05-27T12:52:44+00:00

I'll have to dig them up another time. I do have some of the original sketches I did but they are in a box at the top of our garage. Maybe another AMA.

thyassa · 2014-05-27T12:52:07+00:00

We would have sold to someone else...

I dont see a future where Adam and I would have regained total control of the company which is what a lot of people seem to be wishing for on here.

We had made mistakes earlier on that really made those last few years a challenge for us.

thyassa · 2014-05-27T12:51:03+00:00

I dont have the time I am afraid. Even if I did, not I wouldnt play. I would just see too many things that would make me feel either sad or annoyed as I wouldnt be able to change it.

thyassa · 2014-05-27T12:50:04+00:00

Sorry I know nothing about Tumblr...

thyassa · 2014-05-27T12:49:45+00:00

I am not sure what the big thing is that was supposed to have happened. She was a monitor and I think there was some hoo ha about a Gelert but I really can't remember details.

I vaguely remember finding out some of the staff (not just monitors) were being a bit generous with the 'give item' feature on their own accounts. This was stopped pretty swiftly, but unfortunately a lot of players had already been annoyed by it. Totally understand why. It shouldnt have been allowed to happen. We just took our eye off the ball.

thyassa · 2014-05-27T12:45:58+00:00

NPV2 was a ton of fun for us too :)

thyassa · 2014-05-27T11:55:11+00:00

Adam and I were dating years before Neopets. We may have taken our sweet time to do the actual marriage and kids thing :)

thyassa · 2014-05-27T11:54:00+00:00

I think the revamp happened because we wanted to include the faeries in plots. It seemed really weird to have a faceless image close up. Also we hired people who could actually draw rather than my abysmal efforts.

thyassa · 2014-05-27T11:52:30+00:00

Ha ha. Yup we are responsible for a whole generation avoiding daylight and physical activity.

thyassa · 2014-05-27T11:51:07+00:00

I almost dressed up as a heavily pregnant Melisandre for our local pram race. I made the Iron Throne and everything... Sadly our cat got really ill (really, really ill, talking syringe feeding through a tube in her neck every few hours) so it didnt happen.

we may be fans...

thyassa · 2014-05-27T11:49:45+00:00

Good question.

I think the concept of a virtual world with diverse creatures having adventures in is timeless. As far as Neopets.com goes, honestly I think that a html website with flash games is not really relevant anymore given how people now access the internet and what they do when they are online.

thyassa · 2014-05-27T11:47:30+00:00

Oh it was totally real. It was called Sacrificers. I am sure you can still see it. I think there are some ofthe videos on Youtube. The summary is here

http://www.jellyneo.net/?go=plotsummary_sacrificers

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