

As a bonus, requests will also help earn followers. The ones that people seem to love involve dressing up the dogs (yes, it’s an option!) and having them doing people things, like surfing. Basically, you can’t post a lot at once and want them to be varied enough. Basically, don’t run your account like our editor-in-chief, Matt, does with all those Miku posts ( I approve of this advice – ed). If you post too much, people will get bored.

To earn followers, you have to post to social media. There isn’t an overwhelming number of upgrades, but to earn enough money to buy each one can take a surprising amount of time compared to how long it takes to get to the game’s credits. I wouldn’t dare say some are ugly but some are definitely not aesthetically pleasing to me. Same with the film: there’s basics such as sepia or black-and-white, as well as some more… errr… colourful options. But there are also fun ones (like the pixel lens that makes everything, well, pixelated) and helpful ones (the slow-mo lens slows everything down to a crawl and makes it easy to capture images of fast-moving dogs). Of course, you’ve got the basics lenses: zoom, fish-eye, etc. More followers unlock new places to visit, while money unlocks some of the better parts of the photo parts of the game: upgrades! There’s a bunch of lens and film options, as well as a flash that disorients the poor pups. As you become a better photographer, and share your photos online, you’ll make more money and gain more followers. Of course, it can’t just be as simple as “meet dogs, take photos, rinse and repeat.” It’s pretty close, but there is definitely some more complexity to it. The game will only take a couple of hours to finish, but for completionists and trophy hunters, there’s plenty more beyond the end credits. There are only a handful of pretty large locations (lighthouse, boardwalk, city, park, moon – yeah, really) but most can be accessed at four different times (cloudy/rainy, sunny, sunset, night) so that really expands replayability. Players visit different places at different times of day to get different tasks to complete. The premise is pretty simple: you are a camera (literally a camera on legs, you can see it in your shadow as well as when you take selfies) in a world populated by a handful of vaguely human-like creatures and loads of doggos. Finally, two of my favourite things mashed together in video game form! Needless to say, I’ve had loads of expectations for the game. That’s right, it’s about taking photos of dogs. I get giddy thinking about the number of dogs in Pupperazzi, so you’ll have to forgive me if I go off on any tangents of OMGSOCUTE! Pupperazzi is what it sounds like: a game that combines the… “noble” job of a paparazzi, and puppies. Dogs! They’re everywhere! Big dogs and little dogs and in-between dogs, brown dogs and white dogs and black dogs, dogs wearing hats and dogs wears shoes and dogs wearing sunglasses, dogs on surfboards and dogs on bicycles and dogs on stage.
