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Littlehearts - Small Animal RPG

Postby kiwipen » Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:04 am

"Alone we are small, but together, we can do anything! Our hearts are larger than life!"


Welcome to Littlehearts, a small animal ARPG featuring magical mice, hamsters, rabbits, and ferrets. These four species live in harmony with one another, working together to fend off from larger threats - like the hunting present from Storkatten and the birds in Magic Falconry Academy.

The peacemaking Softhearts and magical Tinyhearts are protected by their larger bunny and ferret friends; Stronghearts and Ironhearts, respectively.

Littlehearts is under the Kiwi family of species; specifically under the magical eye species umbrella that Storkatten and MFA resides under. Participation in either of those ARPGS is not required, however, and you can play in Littlehearts entirely independent of those two.

About Littlehearts
In a world filled with magical and strong predators like Storkatten and Hearthoots, Littlehearts have carved out places in this world by forming strong communities. Love Magic is highly prized and cherished in this society, as it enables everyone to get along well.

About Softhearts
About Tinyhearts
About Ironhearts
About Stronghearts
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Re: Littlehearts - Small Animal RPG

Postby kiwipen » Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:05 am

Rules


All 'hearts here fall under my species umbrella, and therefore have a TOS you can read here:
Universal Species TOS

Here are a few additional stipulations to keep in mind....

Conduct
You may create your own individual 'tracker' for a critter by coloring it in and making your own copy in the Oekaki after being added. If you're unable to use the Oekaki, maintaining the tracker on the main artist form is fine.
Please do not edit your critters unless you've had the appropriate items earned and approved by moderators.
You will be added to your critters' reference, please do not edit any new versions of the critters unless you're allowed to.


Trackers
All Trackers for each individual critter should be posted and maintained either on the official post by the artist, or on your colorin version. Either way, it must remain on ChickenSmoothie. [Off-Oekaki critters are allowed to have an Off-Oekaki tracker]
Recommended; Publicly adopted critters should be maintained on a colorin version of them; customs, breedings, babies, etc. should be maintained on the original post by the artist.
--Critter trackers should track the prompts they've completed.
Additionally, creating a Colony Tracker is required. You can do so in the Character Storage forum, or on Toyhou.se, or another place that works for you; just no Google Docs/Sheets. You may create multiple trackers if you want to maintain multiple colonies, that is entirely up to you.
You may also track them alongside your Storkatten or MFA birds, if you so choose.

Colony

To participate in this game, you are responsible for your founding, upkeep, and tracking of your Mews; where your magical small critters are stored. Every Colony has unlimited storage for critters.

Roleplay-wise, your Colony can be anything, as long as it can reasonably house and accommodate a group of magical creatures. That being said, mechanically, each Colony must have the following;

  • A place to store and display all owned magical critters. (Categories by breed, gender, etc. optional)
  • A place to store and display all trackers for off-Oekaki magical critters.

What this looks like, and where it's hosted, is up to you. Feel free to use Google Docs, Toyhou.se, or a post in the Character Storage forum.


Breeding
Critters of any gender and species combination can have children.
Adoptables here, unless otherwise stated, have unlimited breeding spots.

All Littlehearts have litter sizes between 1 and 5.

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Re: Littlehearts - Small Animal RPG

Postby kiwipen » Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:05 am

Traits
Traits are not limited to visible edits; deafness, blindness, etc. may not be visible but they are still traits that need to be considered for future offspring if genetic.

Littleheart Rarity Chart

Common/Non-Rarity
Any Coat Color, Pattern, or Marking | Blindness or Deafness [Born or Earned ] | Expression Edits | Claw Edits | Eye Shape Edits | Scars (Minor or Major) | Accessories | Pupil Edits | Full Eye Color | Whisker Edits | Colored Whiskers | Weight Edits | Eye Shape Edits | Expressive Ear Edits | Pupil Edits | Hair Edits

Limited
| Longer Fur Edits |Ear Tufts | Dark Sclera | Fangs / Teeth Edits | Missing Limbs | Kinked / Genetically Broken Tail | Tongue Type Edit | Extra Eyes (1 Limited Trait Per) | Shaped Irises | Coat Type Alteration (Curly Fur, Kinked Fur, Silky Fur) | Tail Alterations | Coat Length Alteration (Longer or Shorter)

Legendary
Albinism | Chimerism | Melanism | Heterochromia [ Dual-Born Magic ] | Height Edits | Ear Type Edits (Folded, Bigger, Curled, Etc.) | Muzzle Edits | Wings | Halos | Horns | Genesplice | Extra Legs | Extra Tails | Extra Ears | Bioluminescence | Form Change | Body Length Edit*

*Body Length Edit on Ironhearts is Limited


Design Notes
You may use pre-existing markings present in the base or create your own. You may use airbrushes, soft brushes, or hard lines.


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Re: Littlehearts - Small Animal RPG

Postby kiwipen » Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:06 am

Staff, Artist Guidebook, Pay ETC

We have so many staff and artists that we are no longer listing them here for now! The list will be updated in due time.

Guidebook
Notice; Do not give free adoptables or customs to accounts that are younger than 3 months old, unless they have been personally vouched for already by a respected member of the community. Paid adoptables and WTA/DTA's are fine.
If you need to take an extended break, and will be uncontactable, please let us know ahead of time. Failure to respond to inquiries regarding owed work in a week, will result in your removal as a staff member. - 7/12/2022
You must add kii to every canvas of every Littleheart you make, including Indie Batches, Mystery Adopts, mass adopts, and one-offs. - If you disappear, I will still be able to step in and dish out the remaining owed adopts, and you give me consent to do so by applying to be an artist and making big batches of Littlehearts. [ 7/12/2022 ]
As an artist, you're expected to make one free adoptable every month you're active.
How much you earn past that is up to you. Free adoptables [including free customs] earn you 2 Artist Points each; paid adoptables [including paid customs ] earn you 1 Artist Point each.
Free nursery adopts earn you 4 Artist Points per adopt; Paid nursery adopts earn you 2 artist points per adopt.
You can earn Banking Points as well by updating your adoptables in the archive; Banking Points are used interchangeably with Artist Points.
You can spend your Artist Points at the Littleheart shop. You're required to keep track of your Artist Points with a tracker.
If you do not judge your competition within a month, you give Littleheart staff permission to judge it for you. 6/6/2022/ This includes doing whatever we have to do, whether it's making new canvases for other people to get their cats, or uploading your cat designs to our Indie Archive, to make sure the people get their cats. [ 7/12/2022 ]
Here is the thread you can use to track that;
Customs are posted on the main thread, your artist MYO are made in the MYO thread.
new; 12/17/2021 you earn an additional standard myo (on top of any artist points) for the first free adopt you make a month.



MYO Approvals
Artists can and should help with MYO approvals. You earn Staff Points for this action, so rest assured your work is paid :)
The official protocol for approving MYO are....

  • Ensuring that the traits listed match the MYO on the canvas.
  • Ensuring that the traits and magic listed match the allowance of the MYO being used.
    -- If neither of these things line up, stop here, and tell them what to fix. Do not proceed until it's in an approvable state.
  • If the Littleheart is approvable, open up the archive and assign the design an ID# in the MYO tab. Fill out applicable information (such as applicable magic, trait rarity, and artist / owner ) Link the post or image code of the design in the ID# spot.
  • Comment or reply to the person seeking the approval, and tell them their ID #. Tell them their design is approved.

You earn 2 Staff Points for this action; 1 for Approving it, and 1 for filling out the information on the archive. You earn 1 Staff Point for sending an adopt back for approvals if it needs it.
This protocol works for on and off-Oekaki MYOs.

Off-Oekaki DIY Nursery approvals work similarly; approve the kits like you would a normal DIY Nursery breeding, and still assign them ID #'s in the MYO archive. Send back any kits that need approval, and only approve the whole batch when ALL kits are in approvable states. Fill out all information that you can in the archive for the kits; if fates are not listed, inform the person that they will need to update the ownership information on the Bank Update page or reply to the comment with their fates and link it in the Discord.

You earn a staff point for each kit approved, and a staff point for each kit archived.

Indie Adopts
Indie adopts are adoptables not made on the main Littleheart lines or canvas. As an artist, this is considered a privilege, and there are some special steps you need to take to make it function smoothly.

  • Make your Littlehearts!
  • Reserve their ID #'s in the archive [ to do so, make the ID#'s and then slap your artist name in the artist field]
  • Fill out any applicable information you know before posting (such as known traits, magic, etc. if Off-Oekaki Custom, you can include the owner here.)
  • Post your adopt, and link the post on the ID#'s in the archive.
  • Update information if you can, otherwise ask an archivist for help.

That's it! Reserving the ID # is very important so we can all number them appropriately. Thank you.





All artists, moderators, and admins are required to be respectful and kind while interacting with the community.
If a member of staff goes quiet and does not do a job-related task for three months, they are removed from their post.
Artists are required to post the following forms with all their created Littlehearts.
Bankers and archivists earn 1 Staff Point per task they complete and that money can be spent at the shop too.
You are now required to log your work in our work-log channel on Discord.
Custom Note

As regular artists, you are allowed to offer Basic, Rare, and Limited magic types for your customs.
Founding and free customs need to be Basic.
Minimum Custom Prices are...
100 C$ / $5 USD - Standard
+80 C$ / $5 USD for Rare magic types,
+180 C$ / $10 USD for Limited Magic
+80 C$ / $5 USD for Limited Edits [not per, this covers all limited-edited-customs]
You cannot offer higher rarities than that.
Paid Adopt Minimums are 80 C$ / $5 USD for Standard, 160 C$ / $10 USD for Rare, 250 C$ / $25 USD for Limited magic, 200 C$ / $15 USD for Limited edits.
Paid Nursery batches are 80 C$ / $5 USD per kit minimum.

USD transactions are handled over our Discord linked at the top of the page.
Artists must complete USD work within a month or will lose their custom taking privileges.


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[quote]Welcome to Littlehearts, a small animal ARPG featuring magical mice, hamsters, rabbits, and ferrets. These four species live in harmony with one another, working together to fend off from larger threats - like the hunting present from Storkatten and the birds in Magic Falconry Academy.

The peacemaking Softhearts and magical Tinyhearts are protected by their larger bunny and ferret friends; Stronghearts and Ironhearts, respectively.[/quote]

[list][list][size=85]Custom/Breeding/Kit for [User].

[code][b]Username;[/b]
[b]Littleheart Species;[/b]
[b]Littleheart Name;[/b]
[b]Nicknames;[/b] (optional)
[b]Coat Description:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b] M/F/Custom
[b]Born Magic Type;[/b]
[b]Additional Magic #1[/b] leave blank
[b]Additional Magic #2[/b] #2; leave blank

[b]Parents:[/b]
Founder | Founder

[b]Children:[/b]
-- [url]Partner[/url]
-- [url]Child1[/url]
-- [url]Child2[/url]
-- [url]Child3[/url][/code][/size][/list][/list]




Please post this on the official page YOU have made, and add the person to the canvas.

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Re: Littlehearts - Small Animal RPG

Postby kiwipen » Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:06 am

Magic

All Critters are born with the potential to practice magic. Not every Critter becomes a practicer of this magic, though.
You can tell what magic a Critter was born with by looking in their eyes; every magic type has a color that's reflected in their eyes.
As a result of needing to evolve to defend themselves easier, Littlehearts learn and practice Novice level magic at an exceptionally young age and quick pace.

Magic is genetic, and Critters will only ever pass on the magic type they were born with. Even if a Critter learns other magic types, their offspring will only ever inherit one of the two magic types their parents have.

Critters can learn a second and third magic through the Level System.
Some Critters are born with hybrid magic, you can read about that in the Hybrid Magic Master Document. However, here you will see all the base magics.

Magic Rarity:

Common:
Love, Arcane, Astral, Healing, Faunal, Plant, Bardic, Absent, Air

Rare
Artists can make one gen 1 Rare Magic-ed Storkie every four common adopts.
Metal* | Fire | Earth | Water | Fungal | Light | Trickster

Limited
Artists can make one gen 1 Limited Magic'ed Storkie every two rare adopts.
Rune | Blood* | Poison | Lightning | Ice | Shadow

Legendary
Artists cannot make gen 1 Legendary Storkies
Solar | Lunar | Time | Death | Life | Balance | True Unmagic

*Blood and Metal is Common for Ironhearts.

Visual Guide does not have rarities coinciding with Littlehearts, due to it being made for Storkatten. The colors are important, however.

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Guide made by Arrillaga, maintained by Keryth

+ Balance Magic born of hybrid magic may have heterochromia of the two magics bred to make it, but will still have one dark sclera and one normal.
+ Rune Magic may have any of the bases listed, with colored pupils to match any basic or rare magic color.

Colors serve as a baseline; we do not color drop, feel free to drop and move around a few hues and shades to get a customized look.

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Guide by Arrillaga

Alternate Magic Colors
A Limited* trait introduced alternate colors to some magics.
Graphic and explanation here.

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Re: Littlehearts - Small Animal RPG

Postby kiwipen » Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:06 am

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Re: Littlehearts - Small Animal RPG

Postby mystoxxiide » Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:08 am

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Re: Littlehearts - Small Animal RPG

Postby literal.swag. » Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:09 am

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Re: Littlehearts - Small Animal RPG

Postby Keryth » Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:10 am

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Re: Littlehearts - Small Animal RPG

Postby BethRAWR » Fri Jan 20, 2023 11:15 am

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