Super Poke! Pets: A Virtual Pet World Gaining in Popularity

Super Poke! Pets, a virtual community game catering to pet lovers, is fast becoming the place to hang out when online. The object of the game is simple: adopt a pet, set up play dates, shop till you drop and decorate your pet's habitat. To do so you'll need money, of course.

The game uses two forms of currency. You can make your purchases either with coins, which you collect from caring for your pet or your friends' pet, or with gold pieces that you can purchase online with a credit card or paypal account. If you're wondering about the quality and quantity available with the coins versus the gold pieces, don't. One of the best things about this game is that the available items for purchasing with the "free" coins is abundant and the quality of the graphics is as nice as those offered to premium users willing to purchase gold pieces out of their own pockets. Also, if you see something that you feel you must have at a premium price you can do so on an as need basis. This is possible because there is no premium membership fee. Gold pieces can be purchased in 50, 100, 250, 500 or larger quantities suiting your spending spree for $0.10 USD each. Thus your minimum purchase cost would be 50 gold pieces for $5 USD.

Now that we have the technical stuff out of the way, let's play!

Getting Started

Before you can adopt a pet and play you'll need to join the virtual community, which can be done in two ways. First, registered users on Facebook, My Space or Hi5 can request the add-on application module be added to your profile page and launch the game right from there. If you're not registered with these social networking sites head over to the Super Poke! Pets official website at www.superpokepets.com and click on Adopt Now.

Adopting A Pet

Currently there are 13 pets to choose from. These include a dog, a cat, a rabbit, a dragon, a chicken, a turtle, a pig, a tiger, a frog, a monkey, a penguin, a panda bear and a sheep. After you have selected and named your pet you'll need to provide him with a home, which is referred to in the game as a habitat. The game provides your first habitat, at no cost, and a little spending money (650 coins) if you complete the quick tutorial.

How To Play

When the game begins, your adopted pet will appear on screen inside a box. Within seconds he will burst from the box needing some care. The game's tutorial will walk you through the first few moves using an extremely user-friendly interface easily understood by children and adults. Here you will learn how to shop at the pet store, decorate your habitat and feed, clean and play with your pet. Caring for your pet will earn you coins and pet points. Pet points are your "level ups." At the end of the tutorial you will be taken to a new screen and asked to get more play dates. Why? Your pet needs some friends and so do you if you want to keep him happy. Play dates are the heart of the game, so to speak. The more friends you have the better your chance for collecting coins. You will be rewarded with pet points and 20 coins for each friend's pet habitat you visit during the day. But wait there's more! For every friend you have who visits your habitat you will receive pet points and 40 coins! Put simply, the more friends you make the more money you make, which means the bigger your shopping sprees can be.

Advancing through the game's many levels depends on one strategy that is to keep the coins and pet points coming. As you accumulate coins you can go to the pet shop and purchase a wide range of objects for decorating your habitat such as furniture, outdoor plants, kitchenware and so many other things. And if you've you can't find that perfect object for your habitat you can even stop by the forum and request it! The Pet Shop, which is stocked regularly with new items, sale items, gold items, offers its merchandise on a first come first serve basis. So you need to check back often while you save up your coins to be sure your desired purchase is still available. Sounds a lot like the real world huh?

Tips For Keeping Coins and Pet Points Coming Your Way

Collecting coins and pet points is not as difficult as it sounds. In fact, all you need to do is find your pet play dates. All pet owners want play dates for their pets. Why? They want to earn coins and pet points too! So don't be shy. Make friends and request play dates as often as you can.

There is a forum on Super Poke! Pets where you can post your name and Super Poke! Pet url for others to add you as a friend. A more aggressive approach, while you wait for others to respond to your play date request, is to click on any pet owner's avatar. In doing so you will arrive at their profile page where you can click on the Add As Friend button and ask them directly for play dates.

Also, if you belong to Facebook, My Space, or Hi5 you can do a group search using the keyword "Super Poke Pets". You'll be surprised at how many play dates you can arrange in just a few clicks.

Another way I earn coins and pet points is to visit my SuperPoke! Pet profile and click on the Friend tab. When the page loads I click on each of the pets and viola I earn 5 coins. Just think for every friend you have you can earn 5 coins just by clicking on their pet. Those 5 coins add up when your list of friends totals into the hundreds and I've come across some pet owners who have thousands of friends. With that many friends your sure to have a decent flow of daily traffic to your habitat Remember every friend coming to your habitat for a play date means 40 coins for you. And every habitat you visit for a play date means 20 more coins for you. In the end it's a win-win situation for everyone. If you're looking for a play date for your pet, so am I - click here.

My final tip, if you launch the game from Facebook, My Space or Hi5, is that you be sure to check out the SuperPoke! Pet website and visit your profile page often. There are literally thousand of play dates just waiting for you to make on the website that you won't have access to through your social networking sites. So, please do register with the website, using your Facebook, My Space or Hi5 log-in. The Super Poke! Pet forum is a feature only available to those pet owners who are registered at the site in addition to their social network site.