Info/History of Herupets

INFO: (From HeruHelp)

Note from HeruHelp: If one of the people at Herupets, would like to give a bigger and better info, please contact us

Herupets is a virtual petsite, which means that people create pets that aren't in the real world.You need to take care of these pets, like they were real. Your pets can fight in a battle (not up yet), play some games, and even meet new people on the forums. You can also paint you pet different colors so you have more fun.

HISTORY: (From Excel)

Note from Heru-Step: This big paragraph, may not be 100% true, even said by excel at the end of it.

I originally had a really horrible petsite and it got hacked, i didn't know how to program or anything about petsites except i liked playing them. After it got hacked I ra ndomly got an idea for a new, better petsite with a new name and everything.(the old petsite did n;t even go live and it was hacked xD) I got a program and a name, i just..brainstormed random name with friends and we came up with heru. And i think it means something in Japanese but I'm not sure, that w as coincidental. We hired artists and i got a programmer to help, but it didn't work out like I thought. The programmer left and we didn't have much done, we had opened to soon and things we're falling a part. This was a bout...say, 1 1/2 years ago? We had opened on Halloween, but the official birthday is now August 21st 2005.(the d ay I thought of the name, besides I didn't want to mix up Halloween with this)...ANYWAYS i started to learn PHP an d mysql, i had already known a little from previous websites. I recoded everything and got a few artists and we were on our way, but then in January 1st we were hacked. I always take tons of backups every week though, so everything w as fine. Everything went smooth until about June when members were complaining about the shortage of things to do, and the economy was really messed up. So sometime around June the site was taken down for a total revamp/make over and was scheduled to release on our birthday. We added tons of new content, and we got rid of old staff and fire new ones, redid all the art, and got a new layout. I also completely recoded everything for a second time. We weren 't on schedule for the new opening so we decided to miss our first birthday and we then later opened in september. But a few weeks before opening, the re was a glitch in the user database causing all user data to be erased. A nd I myself think it was a good t hing, due to the entire game bein g messed up. So we had a reset an d the game was brought back up be tter than ever. Within a few days all of the old members signed ba ck up and many new ones as well. I ho nestly think that all that happened to herupets in the past, bad or not, really helped make the game better. And thats really where we are now. Also, i'd rather you not quote me word for word because I may have f orgotten somethings or fudged a few details that I don't really remember.

HISTORY2: (From HERE):

Herupets started on August 21st 2005 (our official birthday). We then opened on halloween, but decided to close and do more work and come back again on november 17th. Then around july 3rd we decided to go down for one major last time, to make sure EVERYTHING was finished. We finished alot of things, sadly not EVERYTHING though, but decided to open anyways. During the july 3rd - august 30th downtime, a database error occured and everyone had to re-register ( yes, i know horrible D:) Well thats where we are now. :P