hello! pixpet is adorable so far. it's nice and idle and i really love the art and mechanics. ♥

the egg hatching mechanic in particular is super exciting! especially when you have no idea what's going to come out, but it does spawn a concern i have with a lot of games that involve lengthy waiting times like these.

if the item or feature that's barred by your very first period of waiting time can't be obtained much faster than usual or even instantaneously for tutorial purposes, then a portion of players are going to walk away and lose interest or forget about the game entirely. in this particular case, since the pets are the main draw of the game, it's an especially big detriment to have a user's starter locked behind what i'm guessing is well over a twenty four hour wait period, just going off on how much progress my starter egg in particular has made over the course of the past two and a half hours or so.

a new user ought to have their first pet to play with during their first play session of the game, which, based on pixpet's idle nature, would probably be anywhere from five to twenty minutes. this will more effectively teach users how pets function in the game and why they're well worth waiting for, making them a lot more likely to return time and time again to patiently collect more.

to reiterate, i'd propose either a dramatic shortening of the user's starter egg's hatching time, just that one time, or some kind of prompt within the existing tutorial that hatches it instantaneously after you place the egg in your house.

thanks in advance for the consideration! i can't wait to see how the game evolves as we go.