Hello everyone! Monthly news for you all.

GENERAL UPDATES

This month we will hopefully be getting some smaller things out for you all to enjoy! Currently our plans entail a small MYO event intended to begin August 10th that will include some raffles to enter, adopts, new lore bits, and more! More information on this will be announced and posted in a later newsletter.

Another additional prompt relating to the Keep-specific calendar has been posted for you to participate in! The prompts related to the Keep calendar are not part of the general monthly prompts/do not enter you into the monthly raffle.

ART FIGHT 2024 WRAPUP

As stated in last month's newsletter, a specific gallery was created for Gachagon related attacks this year! Those who participated and submitted their pieces to the gallery will be granted a special badge to be displayed in their award case shortly - we apologize for any delays on this! Thank you for your participation and patience.

GENERAL August PROMPT: 

This month’s theme is BACK TO WORK! What does your Gachagon do for work, if anything? Do they enjoy what they do? Are there any passions they wish to follow in the future? This theme is a bit more ambiguous, so feel free to do whatever you feel fits best!

The August prompt will last till August 31st!

RULES (ILLUSTRATED)

• Your illustration must be (at the least) a halfbody with some form of background!
• Your illustration must be, at the minimum, cleanly lined and colored!
• Your illustration MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.) 

RULES: (WRITTEN)

• Your written piece must be at the least 600 words long!
• Use paragraph breaks, it makes it much easier for our mods to read over!
• Your written piece MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery!

This month's raffle prize will be a Scribblie MYO slot - to enter for it, you must do the monthly prompt!

JULY MONTHLY PROMPT RAFFLE WINNER:

Congratulations to Grinnie for winning July's raffle prize of surprise Gachapanion! It will be transferred over to you shortly. :D

MISCELLANY

• We are still working on some general quality-of-life changes/modernization of things around site and the Discord server - any important changes will be announced as they occur as well as addressed in subsequent newsletters.

Thank you for sticking around!

Hello everyone! Monthly news for you all.

GENERAL UPDATES

As mentioned earlier in the server, due to some general IRL busyness, medical issues, etc. among staff, we weren't quite able to get everything within GHPP part two done as needed on time. However, we are still working on it! We have been discussing breaking up part two into smaller postings of lore alongside some other things, i.e. a MYO event, etc. A full newsletter detailing our plans and ideas will be posted when things are more ironed out! And, as always, feel free to check out GHPP part one if you haven't already.

Another additional prompt relating to the Keep-specific calendar has been posted for you to participate in! The prompts related to the Keep calendar are not part of the general monthly prompts/do not enter you into the monthly raffle.

We want to thank you for your patience regardless, and we hope you've been enjoying GHPP so far!

ART FIGHT 2024

For the month of July, we will be having an Art Fight-centric gallery open for those who decide to draw Keep-related character attacks for others throughout the duration of the event!

Those who participate and submit their attacks to the on-site gallery will be counted and awarded a special Art Fight 2024 badge for display in their award case! 

GENERAL JULY PROMPT: 

This month’s theme is STAYING COOL! Draw and/or write about your Gachagons/other keep species staying cool in the Summer weather. Do they enjoy eating cold treats? Would they prefer to stay indoors with the air conditioning on, or go outside and swim to cool off?

The July prompt will last till June 31st!

RULES (ILLUSTRATED)

• Your illustration must be (at the least) a halfbody with some form of background!
• Your illustration must be, at the minimum, cleanly lined and colored!
• Your illustration MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.) 

RULES: (WRITTEN)

• Your written piece must be at the least 600 words long!
• Use paragraph breaks, it makes it much easier for our mods to read over!
• Your written piece MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery!

This month's raffle prize will be a surprise Gachapanion by 39friend - to enter for it, you must do the monthly prompt!

June MONTHLY PROMPT RAFFLE WINNER:

Congratulations to bunnyblasts for winning June's raffle prize of 3 adopt trait stickers!

MISCELLANY

• We are still working on some general quality-of-life changes/modernization of things around site and the Discord server - any important changes will be announced as they occur as well as addressed in subsequent newsletters.

Thank you for sticking around!

Hello everyone! Monthly news for you all.

GHPP EVENT (& PART TWO)

As a reminder, we recently had the first part of our lore event go live earlier last month with a few exciting things for you to take part in and check out! (Art prompts, lore pages to read, a mini dialogue event, F2U backgrounds and templates, etc.) Another of the special Gachagon calendar specific monthly prompts has begun (The Month of Jubilation!) and will end later this month - feel free to check everything out if you haven't already!

However, the GHPP event is not yet over - part two will be posted around June 9th (give or take) with more exciting things to look out for and do! More information regarding the Month of Jubilation will follow with the release of part two! Stay tuned.

GENERAL JUNE PROMPT: 

This month’s theme is SUMMERTIME FUN! Draw and/or write about your Gachagons/other keep species enjoying the return of Summer following a beautiful Spring! Do they love swimming, or cooking out? Do they prefer to stay indoors?

The June prompt will last till June 30th!

RULES (ILLUSTRATED)

• Your illustration must be (at the least) a halfbody with some form of background!
• Your illustration must be, at the minimum, cleanly lined and colored!
• Your illustration MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.) 

RULES: (WRITTEN)

• Your written piece must be at the least 600 words long!
• Use paragraph breaks, it makes it much easier for our mods to read over!
• Your written piece MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery!

This month's raffle prize will be 3 Adopt trait stickers - to enter for them, you must do the monthly prompt!

MAY MONTHLY PROMPT RAFFLE WINNER:

Congratulations to Splintered_Psych for winning May's pre-made Scribblie by 39friend!

MISCELLANY

• break has created a new divider for our newsletters, as you can see above! ❤️
• Monthly prompt awards (the ones that appear in your gallery case) are returning this month, but will be granted later in the month to any of those who participate in the prompt!
• We are slowly beginning to work on some general quality-of-life changes/modernization of things around site and the Discord server - any important changes will be announced in the next newsletter! 

Thank you for sticking around!

Hello everyone! Monthly news for you all.

GENERAL UPDATES

As you may have noticed, we have been a bit more active than usual in regards to general activity (server and site wise) and events - we hope to continue this and liven up the species a bit as we get back into the swing of things! We hope you enjoy everything we have planned moving forward.

GHPP EVENT REMINDER

As a reminder, we recently had our first lore event go live with a few exciting things for you to take part in and check out! (Art prompts, lore pages to read, a mini dialogue event, F2U backgrounds and templates, etc.) One of the special Gachagon calendar specific monthly prompts ends later this month - feel free to check everything out if you haven't already!

GENERAL MAY PROMPT: 

This month’s theme is INTERESTS! Draw and/or write about your Gachagons/other keep species interests or hobbies - what do they like to do? Are they a talented artist or musician? What makes them happy?

The May prompt will last till May 31st!

RULES (ILLUSTRATED)

• Your illustration must be (at the least) a halfbody with some form of background!
• Your illustration must be, at the minimum, cleanly lined and colored!
• Your illustration MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.) 

RULES: (WRITTEN)

• Your written piece must be at the least 600 words long!
• Use paragraph breaks, it makes it much easier for our mods to read over!
• Your written piece MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery!

This month's raffle prize will be a surprise pre-made Scribblie by 39friend - to enter for them, you must do the monthly prompt!

MISCELLANY

• The monthly prompt (under World > Prompts) and the monthly prompt gallery have been reopened and are now free to be submitted to once again! We apologize for any confusion them being closed may have caused.
• Monthly prompt awards (specifically the ones in the award case on your profile, not prompt points) will be returning starting June 1st. 
• We will be removing Gachapon and Scribblie potions from the shop for the time being as we wish to rework them and change up their availability going forward. Apologies!
• We are slowly beginning to work on some general quality-of-life changes/modernization of things around site and the Discord server - any important changes will be announced in the next newsletter! 

Thank you for sticking around!

A new (old) friend has made their way to the Keep! Grandpon, the current oldest living Gachagon and Creamsicle’s grandpa, has returned after a long time away from the main hub of the Keep and is shocked to learn that most of the past Gachagon culture has gone away! Even his magical Book of Records isn’t up to date on the population of the species!!

Seeing the sadness of their kin and wanting to help revive the magic and spirits of old Gachagon history, Creamsicle offers to help Grandpon share the lost culture with modern Gachagons, starting with the first initiative of the Gachagon Historical Preservation Project!

The first part of their plan: Teach about the realm’s forgotten calendar system and restart the collection of Hatching Day Certificates! Both may seem like small things, but they are important in order to truly appreciate the realm that Gachagons, Scribblies, and Bitlings call home! Welcome to the very first lore event for the Gachagon Species!

With this, we have a small dialogue event you can read here! Please enjoy!

Take some time to meet and read about our newest NPC: Grandpon!

We have been working hard since the ownership change to bring new life and lore to the species, and we hope you will enjoy participating in the first part of our 2-part lore event!!

In this first stage, please feel free to learn some new lore information regarding these magical world-hopping dragons below!

• A new page regarding the life cycle of Gachagons has been added! 
• New pages about Scribblies and Bitlings have been added! 
• A species-specific calendar page has been added! This page elaborates on celebrations, names of specific months, and more!
• A lost piece of Gachagon history has been uncovered and is ready for you to read - it appears to be a poem that tells about what kind of character a Gachagon will have in relation to the month they were hatched in! It can be found on the calendar page linked above!
• A new (and permanent) special prompt has been added for you to participate in! The Hatching Day Certificate can be filled out once per Gachagon, and is a form of formal registration of information about your Gachagon - what their name is, what month they were hatched in, and whatever other info is important about them! You are free to use our template (linked in the prompt description), or make your own with a similar format!
• More pages regarding species history, lore, and much more are being worked on and will be released soon! We hope to also have artwork for the other species pages eventually, too, but for now you are able to still read about them with no issue!

The pages above will be added to the navigation bar as soon as possible, but for now, you can also find them under Encyclopedia > Info on the left-hand side of your screen!

By participating in this event and by submitting at least one hatch-day certificate and/or completing the temporary prompt, you will earn a badge for your profile, showing you were a part of the Gachagon HPP! 

The prompt for this month is special, as it will be the first of the Gachagon Calendar Specific Prompts! This month is the Month of Growth! It is a special time in the Gachagon realm: the rainy season has come and gone and new life is growing all around! There is even room for growth within each Keep species, especially with the new lore revelations! To learn more, see this page!

The Month of Growth prompt will last till May 21st!

Draw or write about your Gachagon either:

• Learning something new from Grandpon about themselves or any of the Keep species as a whole
• Filling out their own Hatching Day Certificate (which you can submit to the certificate-specific gallery here)
• Experiencing the new growth in nature around them during the Month of Growth

RULES (ILLUSTRATED)

• Your illustration must be (at the least) a halfbody with some form of background!
• Your illustration must be, at the minimum, cleanly sketched and colored.
• Your illustration MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.)

RULES: (WRITTEN)

• Your written piece must be at the least 600 words long!
• Use paragraph breaks, it makes it much easier for our mods to read over!
• Your written piece MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery!

Lastly, we want to thank you all for your patience as we navigate the new direction Gachagons is going in! We understand the ownership change was sudden and that not much has been done in the last few months, but we have a lot of new and exciting things planned! Things are still a work in progress, but we hope you enjoy it nonetheless.

We hope you continue to enjoy our species and the characters we all have created together!

Event Credits:

• togekissed: Grandpon’s design, writing of the dialogue event, Hatching Day Certificate templates, badge designs, F2U backgrounds
• break: Art of Creamsicle and Grandpon, including the dialogue artwork
• 39friend: Formatting, proofreading, and quality-of-life updates to pages
• sequiem: Gachagon life-cycle page artwork

Hello everyone! Monthly updates for you all.

GENERAL UPDATES

Thank you all for being so patient during the ownership change in March! We have been working a lot behind the scenes during the last few weeks to help prepare for some new Lore Events that will be happening at the end of April and through the next few months.

Due to these updates, the site will be down for a whole week starting on April 7th. We will be adding some exciting new pages and prompts while the site is down, so there will be a lot for you all to look forward to! We will aim for the site to be reopened by April 14th, but this could change, so please just be patient and keep your eyes open for any updates!

We will release a special newsletter with all pertinent information when the site comes back up!

APRIL PROMPT

This month’s theme is NATURE! Draw and/or write about your Gachagons/other keep species relationships with the nature that surrounds them! What are their favorite flowers? Where is their favorite place to take a walk? Do they enjoy spending time with others outside to admire the flora that surrounds them? Or would they much rather spend their time away from it all inside?

The April prompt will last till April 30th!

RULES (ILLUSTRATED)

• Your illustration must be (at the least) a halfbody with a semi-scenic background! (We should be able to tell there's depth to the piece!)
• Your illustration must be, at the minimum, cleanly lined and colored!
• Your illustration MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.) 

RULES: (WRITTEN)

• Your written piece must be at the least 600 words long!
• Use paragraph breaks, it makes it much easier for our mods to read over!
• Your written piece MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery!

Rather than pre-made Gachagon, this month's raffle prize will be a custom slot by togekissed of any Keep species or a custom Scribblie by 39friend, either of which you can pick between! To enter, you must do the monthly prompt!

MISCELLANY

• If the site is down while you have finished your piece, please feel free to post it in the discord to share! Then when the site is up, you can submit it for your rewards!
• Everyone will be receiving compensation for the time we are down. 

Thank you for sticking with us, and we wish you all well!

Hello everyone! Monthly news for you all. This is an important newsletter regarding the state of things and the future of the Gachagon Keep, so we suggest you do read it in full.

Species Ownership Change

After a fair bit of discussion spanning throughout the last few months, in late January of 2024 Digimon and 39friend mutually decided to pass main ownership of the Gachagon Keep and its species to a long-time member and admin, togekissed — in turn, Arata has decided to step down from his position as an owner of the species and manager of the site for a myriad of his own personal reasons. Though unfortunate, it was a long time coming, and it ended up boiling down to two final options we came to: either passing the ownership onto another, or shutting down the species in full. Luckily, Toge was gracious and willing enough to accept the position, which we are pleased to announce — and we thank her. :) We trust in her ability to run the species competently and with interest, and we hope you enjoy everything she has planned moving forward!

Due to the change, the species, website and Discord server will all be undergoing some reworking at togekissed's direction. Some of these changes will be things like the addition of some readable lore on-site (and a lore event), added NPCs, feature additions and removals, prompts and such that include more community involvement, the return of Gachapanions, condensing of the Discord server, and more. We will eventually post a newsletter listing and informing members of all changes we have made, similar to how we have done in the past with trait changes and the like. There is no set date for this newsletter to be released or for changes/reworks to be made — things will be fairly slow as usual as we work out the kinks and iron out how and what we are doing going forward.

This also means additional website features, maintenance, updates and bug fixes will also be slower as Toge and I (39friend) learn the ropes of Lorekeeper in Arata's absence. We apologize for any trouble this may cause — if you are having any issues with the site or notice something awry, please send in a report and we will get to it as soon as we are able.

We want to thank our community (especially our long-time and dedicated members) for their continued patience with us and for continued interest in our website and species. It means a lot to us all! We hope you enjoy what we have in store and that you continue to stick around.

Message from togekissed 

Hi all!! I know this is a weird time for the species but I wanted to make a small statement as the new main owner! 

For a short little intro: Hi! I go by Toge and I am sure many of y’all have seen and interacted with me for many years haha.

I have been following the species since it was in development by the original creator who no longer wishes to be associated with the species. This was my first ever experience being a part of a closed species, and I just fell in love with the concept of these special dragons! I joined the mod team early on into the life cycle of Gachagons and have been an active member ever since! I care deeply about the community that we all have built together, and want to continue to grow it with you all.

Rudy and Arata, along with all the current mod team, have done an amazing job transforming the Gachagon species into a fun and accessible space, with the website and quality of life changes. I hope to continue to add onto those as I am given the new role of owner of the species. Gachagons have been a strong passion project of mine since I joined when we first opened three years ago and I want to continue to foster an engaged community of artists and storytellers who are passionate about the colorful dragons we have all made together.

We will be continuing to work on the change of ownership for a while yet, but we are also working on a big lore event and adding new information to our little community! I hope you all continue to support us in the coming months!

Thank you all for participating in and loving this species as much as we do. Y’all are spectacular.

Message from 39friend 

Hello everyone! As mentioned previously, Arata and I have mutually agreed upon passing on ownership of Gachagons to Toge, someone who I've personally been working with since pretty much the creation of the species. I'm super happy she was as willing as she was to take the lead of the Gachagon Keep - I didn't wish to see the species end prematurely, especially with the community we have in mind. I will be staying on as an admin for the foreseeable future and helping Toge as I am able. I am not personally taking sole ownership of the species myself for a variety of reasons, most of which are outlined in this Google document I've written to share and explain my current state involving the species. It's a bit personal, but I want to be transparent with the community about where my head is at going forward if you would like to read it.

Thank you for sticking with us. I'm looking forward to things to come!

March Prompt

This month’s theme is SPRING FLOWERS! Draw and/or write about how your Gachagons/other keep species feel about the season. Is it their favorite time of the year? What kind of weather do they prefer? Do they stop to smell the flowers?

The March prompt will last till March 31st!

RULES (ILLUSTRATED)

• Your illustration must be (at the least) a halfbody with a semi-scenic background! (We should be able to tell there's depth to the piece!)
• Your illustration must be, at the minimum, cleanly lined and colored!
• Your illustration MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.) 

RULES: (WRITTEN)

• Your written piece must be at the least 600 words long!
• Use paragraph breaks, it makes it much easier for our mods to read over!
• Your written piece MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery!

This month's raffle prize will be a custom design by togekissed of any of the three species! To enter, you must do the monthly prompt!

Miscellany

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Thanks for reading! <3

Hello everyone! Monthly news for you all.

GENERAL UPDATES

Due to some things we have going on behind the scenes, this month is going to be a bit slower for us as we work out the kinks and prepare for some big changes going live in March. We appreciate your patience and interest in the species still, always.

Despite the slowness, we will be having some adopts and raffles going up for this Valentine's Day regardless - keep your eyes peeled!

FEBRUARY PROMPT: 

This month’s theme is FRIENDSHIP! Draw and/or write about your Gachagons/other keep species relationships with others - are they childhood friends, or are they just hitting it off? Are they lonely, with no friends at all?

The February prompt will last till February 29th!

RULES (ILLUSTRATED)

• Your illustration must be (at the least) a halfbody with a semi-scenic background! (We should be able to tell there's depth to the piece!) Adding additional characters for this month is encouraged, but not required.
• Your illustration must be, at the minimum, cleanly lined and colored!
• Your illustration MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.) 

RULES: (WRITTEN)

• Your written piece must be at the least 600 words long!
• Use paragraph breaks, it makes it much easier for our mods to read over!
• Your written piece MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery!

Rather than pre-made Gachagon, this month's raffle prize will be a custom breeding slot by togekissed - you'll provide two Gachas to her to breed together, and you'll keep the results! To enter, you must do the monthly prompt.

MISCELLLANY

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Thank you for sticking with us, and we wish you all well!

Hello everyone, and happy new year! Monthly news for you all. 

MYO/Fall Event Reminder

As a reminder, our MYO event is still on-going and will be open until January 16th, 2024! You do not have to be a new user to participate. More info can be found here!

Along with that, the Fall Festival is still on-going! Info can be found here!

January PROMPT:

This month's theme is New Years! Draw and/or write about your Gachagons/other keep species celebrating the new year! Do they have any resolutions? Did they have a party with friends or family?

The January prompt will last till January 31st!

RULES (ILLUSTRATED)

• Your illustration must be (at the least) a halfbody with a semi-scenic background! (We should be able to tell there's depth to the piece!)
• Your illustration must be, at the minimum, cleanly lined and colored!
• Your illustration MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery! (As well as when submitting the prompt, you'll need to link to the gallery submission. Gallery submissions can still be linked to before official approval/while pending, so there should be no reason you can't link it when submitting your piece! Prompt submissions with outside links like Discord, sta.sh, etc. will be rejected.)

RULES: (WRITTEN)

• Your written piece must be at the least 600 words long!
• Use paragraph breaks, it makes it much easier for our mods to read over!
• Your written piece MUST be submitted to the monthly prompt gallery!

This month's raffle Bitling can be seen below - to enter for them, you must do the monthly prompt!

December MONTHLY PROMPT RAFFLE WINNER:

Congrats @ Lucky_cat_Frank for winning last month's raffle Gachagon!

Miscellany

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Thank you all for sticking around!