NEWS

✦ Welcome to Faux Paws — the Geoglades are still being charted ✦ Eleven-legged Fauxling spotted near the Glimmer Flats ✦ The Glimmer Gazette is hiring writers (payment: exposure, and also Glimmers) ✦ Best viewed with your whole entire heart ✦

Welcome, stranger!

Somewhere past the last good search engine there is a world called the Geoglades, and something in it is about to hatch.

Faux Paws is a creature-collecting virtual world built in the spirit of the web we grew up on — the one with tiled backgrounds, guild pages held together by hand-written HTML, and a newspaper written entirely by twelve-year-olds.

Every Fauxling is generated from a real trait genome, so no two are alike and breeding is genuinely unpredictable. Raise them, breed them, argue with people about them in a forum. The usual.

Hatching, breeding and the forums are all open.

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What’s inside

  • 🧬Real genetics Live
    Species, palette, pattern, morphology, temperament — plus recessives you won’t see coming.
  • 🥚Mendelian breeding Live
    Real Punnett squares, drawn for you, with the cell your hatchling landed on picked out.
  • 👤Player avatars Live
    A layered paper doll you dress yourself. The wardrobe is small and growing.
  • 🏅Badges & the Dojo Live
    Sensei Kuro keeps the wall. Yours in colour, the rest waiting in grey.
  • 🗺A hand-drawn map Live
    One village charted and a great deal of fog. New places get drawn in as they’re built.
  • 📰The Glimmer Gazette Live
    A newspaper on crinkly old newsprint. First issue is up; your byline comes later.
  • 🏰Player-run guilds Soon
    Skinnable home pages, custom ranks, shared banks, and a house-points season.
  • 💰An actual economy Soon
    Earn Glimmers, run a shop, watch prices move, get fleeced at auction.
  • 🎮Minigames Soon
    Something for those stats to do besides sit there looking impressive.
  • 🎨A creative sandbox Soon
    Custom creature and guild pages. The rightful heir to the petpage.
PARDON OUR DUST! Accounts, forums, hatching, breeding, badges and avatars are all live — guilds, minigames and the economy are still being built.