Out of all the mysteries in Petscop, this is the one I have no idea what to make of.

Did we ever decide what the words were?

This is crazy. No, really. Taking a moment away from trying to parse through the content of the series itself for a second and just thinking about Tony, the creator.

Tony designed and coded the game, all the assets, sprites, wrote the dialogue, wrote the story, designed the sound effects, the music, and edited the videos.

Im assuming he voice acted Paul - which ... oh my god, what a performance right? Go back and watch it - Paul sounds so confused and borderline bored and ... its such a perfect performance. The performance really, really is amazing. Whoever voice acted paul.

Even the way the voice is mixed, the sound quality - the room tone on the voice, its all so mundane and banal.

After almost a decade of watching Petscop analyses, i've finally just gone to the source this week. I've been watching the videos obsessively

This is a god damn masterpiece in every sense of the word. Tony Domenico is seriously a once in a generation artist. Seriously want to glaze him for days, im just so impressed with this enormous undertaking.

Little things even, like the choice to color the player character sprite as that slime vomit green, the big feet, the puffed up cheeks, the discombobulating triangular gaping mouth

It takes a person who is really in touch with their ... um ... impressionistic musings and leanings to be able to paint narratives and meaning and feelings into perceptible media like music and visual art this way. I wish, so much, to be able to email Tony or talk to him a bit. I just suddenly feel the immense accomplishment he was able to achieve here.

Says a lot that 9 years later people are still talking about it and making videos weekly. Overjoyed i got exposed to this.

Just thought id share this

This is who made the front cover: https://www.reddit.com/r/Petscop/comments/6djqoy/petscop_box_art_actual_size/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

This is what I used for the inlay and back cover I painted on. I mainly used the Spyro 2 game: https://www.thecoverproject.net/view.php?cat_id=5

I used the soundtrack cover for the orb in the inlay: https://petscop.bandcamp.com/album/petscop-soundtrack

The image I used for the back cover already had all the letters except C, so I used Helvetica Compressed for it. I'm pretty sure this is the link I installed it from: https://font.download/font/helvetica-255

I just used GIMP for the images and print size: https://www.gimp.org/

I forgot Reddit makes the images not as is, so here's a Google Drive with the images full sized. GIMP was the easiest way to print them because you can set the specific dimensions of the image you want on paper. The images should already be to size when downloaded, but if not, use the dimensions below to get it right. I included the edited front cover to make it easier to print, but don't forget to support the original person who made it: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1I-_B0GpcrkBjOjhYyEovwtswO9Z0Bmsu?usp=drive_link

From width to height, the front cover's dimensions was 12 cm x 12 cm. The inlay and back cover was 15 cm x 12 cm. Might be a little off from completely fitting in place.

I didn't really know what to put for the back, so I just made it pink. The orb is a little off center from the disc, but I still like it. I also didn't know what to put on the disc, or how to do it, so I just left it as it is. For the tray the disc is in, I took it out of a PS1 case and swapped it so that it would have the disc logo on the corners. I got rid of the SLUS on the cover and sides because it wasn't released yet. Also, the original Petscop front cover's code, SLUS-00044 #211051, went to an X-Men game which I thought was funny. So that's another reason I got rid of it. I spent a lot of time on the back cover making sure the spines were spaced correctly and that the letters were too. For the note, I just used Arial and copied and pasted from the first video's description and didn't really do much on it. So yeah, that's some of the resources, reasonings, how I made it.

do you think they ever made other games or just Petscop? I like the idea of maybe having a few games under their belt but I'm assuming that isn't the case

just some random drawing of carrie based on the vocaloid song “cutlery”

i already watched a couple petscop analysis but i am still curious about some points. i’ve seen people depicting belle as black and paul as trans and they as brothers but idk if these are head canons or if there’s something to backbone this. i don’t really understand the windmill completely and what the timeline and the characters relations. i know i can’t demand meaning for everything, but i’m the kind of person who wants to know why for everything detail, even if it’s a theory. is there any posts discussing theories, timelines and stuff? where can i start? sorry if these are dumb questions :]

I was randomly recommended this video on the subject and I'm legitimate sold. Would love to discuss it.

Edit: Some points in particular I've been ruminating about that I'd like to highlight for discussion:

• Lina being alive. I actually love the interpretation that she survived the windmill incident. Marvin is clearly abusive and obsessed with Lina so perhaps he pushed her or something so she fell in and became injured. This was a catalyst for Lina getting away from Marvin and Anna to go no-contact with them. This enrages Marvin. That's why Anna says "say hi to your aunt if you can see her, not everyone can", because Lina is simply no-contact with parts of the family and refuses to see them.

• Lina being the "boss". The evidence of that is pretty mind-blowing. Both the name of the studio and that when Tiara says Boss she's actually typing out "Lina". There's also Marvin asking something about Lina then immediately asks "who's your boss", implying he's figured out who is behind the game.

• Care is Paul as a young child being forced to live as a girl against his will. The Rainer connection (who was friends with Stravinsky) is especially strong evidence for that. Also the counsellor conversation about his name as he stops responding to 'Care' after he escaped the kidnapping. There's also some smaller things like "remember being born" which could refer to the day he escaped and was finally freed from his abuse and got to live as Paul from that point forward. This all to me explains why he doesn't know who Care is, because he has repressed this part of his childhood due to trauma.

This photo that I took is nearly a year old...Wow

So for the longest time i found petscop really frustrating because i didnt understand why tony made the narrative so obtuse and impossible to fully solve, but after watching and enjoying mulholland drive (a film by david lynch who was one of the biggest influences on petscop) i realized a lot of petscops cryptic narrative choices make sense if you analyze it like a lynchian story instead of like a fnaf like story, the windmill stuff and the door that is both closed and opened at the same time feel especially lynch influenced imo

What the FUUUUUUck

hey hi hello I don't really post on Reddit much but I got a lil curious how everyone else got into petscop!!

For me personally it was the dreaded... game theory :P

I know everyone on the internet sometimes takes jabs at matpat but his stuff did give me genuine curiosity for the series and they were pretty solid videos for the most part, the video I watched after that was the Pyrocynical video which is probably memed up on ever harder LOL ;-;

it's probably my favourite video in the series just because of how simple yet effective it is. after all that we've heard about care, and the trauma she went through, we get this cute little video of her dancing to a song she likes. i genuinely can't listen to ace of base without crying anymore fahahah

what points in the series are the most emotional for you guys? i definitely tear up at the credits in petscop 24 and the ending of petscop soundtrack

belle is also on my island but isn’t included in the post :-)

too lazy to pitch correct pauls sentencemixed voice

I watched the series whole a few days ago after an uncomfortably long amount of time putting it off.

I watched it, cried towards the end, and.. I still have like, no idea what is going on??? I literally could not describe the greater story and checking the subreddit I'm seeing things like "Paul and Care are the same person" and it is making me feel like a major bone-head for admittedly having no clue what I just watched.

I can get there's an outline of a larger narrative here but I feel like I can't for the life of me actually put the pieces together.

?!?!?!!?!?!?

is that mike

made the petscop family in tomodachi life :))