Adopt Me! is a roleplaying game created by DreamCraft. The game presents two roles: baby and father, who takes care of the baby. Other features include obbies, pets, and pets. a trading system; and customizable houses. The game was featured in The 7th Annual Bloxys and Egg Hunt 2020: Agents of EGG
The game was created by NewFissy, who took over the scripting and lead of the development team, and Bethink, who took over the construction and being the creative vision for the game.
The game can be considered a spiritual successor to several "Adopt and Raise" games that have appeared on the site, such as Adopt And Raise A Baby !.
Since its inception, the game has been considered the most popular game on Roblox due to how long it has stayed at the top spot on the main page, reaching over 450,000 concurrent players every day. It is also one of the most played games on Roblox, racking up over seven billion views. On April 4, 2020, Adopt Me! became the most visited game on Roblox.
On April 11, 2020, the game accumulated 1,615,085 concurrent Roblox players, becoming the first and only game to cross the one million concurrent player mark.
On May 30, 2020, the game reached 7.800 billion views, making it the only game so far to exceed the estimated human population.
Summary
- 1 Gameplay
- 2 Achievements
- 3 Associations
- 4 Criticism and Controversy
- 5 Popularity
- 6 Curiosities
- 7 References
Gameplay
Both outfits (baby and parent) appear in your home, which you can customize to your liking. Babies and parents can request (not request) nearby players to become part of their family by pressing [E] on a computer or tablet, or [click to submit request] on a mobile phone. Alternatively, they can create their own family by going to the Family GUI and then clicking on 'Create Family'.
When a baby or parent accepts an invitation from the player to be their family, both the baby and parent will have a GUI. If there are multiple babies in the family, the baby that had the first GUI will appear for the parents. That GUI is for the baby's needs. There are four of these needs that parents must attend to, otherwise the baby will be unhappy. These needs are represented as bars, slowly decreasing over time. The lower the baby's GUI, the lower the daily paycheck the parent will receive. The nine needs are:
| Need | Description |
|---|---|
| Boredom | How active is the baby or pet. This can be increased by going to the park or playing the piano at home. |
| To camp | Bring the pet or child to camp. |
| Bath | How clean is the baby or pet. This can be increased by taking a shower at home. |
| Hunger | How hungry the baby or pet is. This can be increased by feeding formula, food from the supermarket or Ramsay's pizzeria. |
| Pool party | The baby or pet is hot. Take them to the pool. |
| School | Bring the baby or pet to school to learn. |
| Disease | Take the baby or pet to the hospital, where they can eat a healing apple or be healed by Doctor Heart. |
| Sleepiness | How tired the baby or pet is can only be increased by placing the baby in bed. |
| Thirsty | The thirst of the baby or pet can be increased by giving them a drink. |
After the pets update, players were able to adopt pets, including basic ones like cats and dogs, or rare pets like wolves, griffins, unicorns, etc. Pets have the same mood as babies and the pet trainer can teach them tricks. at school. Babies cannot carry pets or put pets in strollers, but parents can.
There is a currency in the game called Bucks, which can be used to buy strollers, toys, pet supplies, furniture, etc. As a baby, you earn Bucks when you are cared for by a parent or baby caring for a child. mascot. As a parent, you are given Bucks when you take care of a baby or a pet.
Achievements
- On May 4, 2019, the game reached XNUMX billion views, becoming the seventh game to exceed the milestone.
- It broke two previous records with more than 440,000 concurrent players on June 15, 2019, with more than 517,000 concurrent players on October 18, 2019, and with more than 640,000 concurrent players on December 14, 2019.
- Additionally, it broke the record three times in a week, with more than 707,000 concurrent players at its peak on April 7, 2020.
- On April 11, 2020, the game became the first to reach more than one million concurrent players. At its peak, it reached more than 1.6 million concurrent players. This caused the Roblox website and servers to slow down, and many users experienced severe lag and found it difficult to play any game.
- On May 28, 2020, the game again reached the one million concurrent player mark.
- Totaling the records, he has broken the player's record seven times.
Partnerships
In September 2019, the ROLVe Community game Arsenal partnered with the game, adding a new skin named Anna named after the game's baby. In January 2020, the Super Doomspire game partnered with the game to add multiple pet-related stickers, some available through code and some that can be purchased from the store.
In May 2020, Team Adopt Me teamed up with Scoob to bring Scooby-Doo into the world of Adopt Me. The Scoob mascot was temporarily in the game until May 18, 2020.
Criticism and Controversy
Some people have criticized the game for being too similar to games like Life in Paradise and Adopt and Raise a Cute Kid. It is also perceived as an online dating hub due to the family theme. At one point, the game featured a controversial miniature depicting an adult avatar supposedly about to eat a child, though it was long since removed. The thumbnail was created on a shirt by a user and can be found here.
Due to the limited capacity of Roblox servers, Adopt Me's 1,6 million concurrent player milestone caused Roblox's servers and website to slow down. It was the first game in Roblox history to break the platform and apparently had more concurrent players than any game on Steam. This drew the ire of many Roblox users, including the fact that a request was made on change.org, which amassed more than 17,000 followers as of April 25, 2020.
It also receives criticism for resembling MeepCity and for being another Adopt and Raise a Cute Baby game. The game also received criticism due to the game's abundant microtransactions and focused on taking care of pets rather than babies.
Popularity
Its popularity has been growing over the years. Currently its popularity is 19.6B +. That means this game is the most popular of all and no other game has been able to beat it and win it.
Curiosities
- NewFissy stated that the game was created due to the death of one of the main developers of TreeLands, the game he worked on but stopped making. [1]
- One potential reason it became so popular is because it combines the simulator genre (with pets) and the construction genre (which Welcome to Bloxburg uses with some forms of role play, but didn't get as popular due to paid access. to the game) in a role-playing experience.
- On June 14, 2019, pets were added to the game.
- The game has a likes-to-dislikes ratio of 1M – 309K, giving it a like ratio of 86%.
- The game has been favored more than 11 million times.
- Each game server has 48 players.
- The game is bottled.
- It has been named as the best known and most played Roblox game.
References
- ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/roblox/comments/ci5zed/why_i_quit_developing_treelands_and_made_adopt_me/
