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What’s new

What the game is getting, and what the renderer has learned, on one timeline.

What the renderer could draw

27 of 33 by 21 October 2026

Each step is a day with notes. The count is how many of the library’s 33 entries the renderer could draw by the end of it.

6 November 2026

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What's new: polls, a clearer pedigree and auctions that sell themselves

1. Polls: Help us decide what comes next. Polls are in the community feed: pick the answer that fits and your vote is final. Once you have voted you see how everyone voted, as counts only, so nobody can see who chose what.

2. Auctions sell themselves: Every auction now sells to the highest bidder when bidding closes, and any Coins you had held on a bid come back as soon as a listing ends. There is no choosing a buyer any more.

3. A clearer pedigree: Pan and zoom around a gecko's pedigree, choose how many generations to show, and branches with no recorded parents fold into one tidy placeholder instead of a wall of empty cards.

4. Easier on a phone: Back is a small arrow so a gecko's name keeps its room in the top bar, notices wait in one slim strip, the sidebar starts with your geckos and then places, and the Market keeps its sections in one row you can scroll.

5. Finding things: Every search box looks and behaves the same, with a clear button, traits are one searchable picker, and Explorer, Incubator and Grow-out share the same filters.

6. Safer invitations, faster friends: An invitation can only be claimed by the account with the invited email, and only when you press Claim. The Friends page loads faster and its buttons read better with a screen reader.

3 November 2026

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Gecko Garry shows you around

New keepers are walked from their first pairing to their second generation, and finish with 3 Opals and a Foundation Voucher toward a program of their own.

Gecko Garry, the tutorial's guide, a crested gecko carrying a satchel of opals, leaning over the rim of an empty hatching tub.

30 October 2026

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The Precision Thermostat

A new item on the Care shelf brings a candled clutch straight to hatching, using one of your fast forwards.

The Precision Thermostat as it appears in the shop: a green and brass thermostat with a leaf and a water drop on its dial, and a coiled probe lead.

21 October 2026

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Axanthic leaves out the warm colours

An Axanthic gecko no longer shows orange, tangerine, red spots, Tri-Color, Orange Pattern strength, a Bullseye's red centre, a ChoCho's maroon base or Super Fire's gold. Its pattern stays cream and grey, and its name and the pairing preview leave them out. The genes are still carried and still pass to the babies.

20 October 2026

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Selling to other keepers

Once you reach level 3, list a gecko for other keepers at your own price and take offers on it. At level 5, the Wanted board lets you ask for the animal you are looking for.

An illustrated market stall under a green and cream striped awning, its wooden counter clear and its shelves stacked with gecko tubs, inside a lamplit glasshouse.

14 October 2026

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Let's Be Friends

The latest release is out! The biggest change is you can now add other keepers as friends. Just click on their username and send them a request.

This is the first rollout of our new communication features that will be coming over the next few weeks. Up next is direct messaging.

8 October 2026

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Tiger bands stand out

Tiger bands now run a little wider and closer together while keeping each gecko's own spacing and reach. A Tiger Lilly keeps those bands visible across its white.

7 October 2026

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Looking after the collection

Feed, clean and mist once a day with supplies from the shop, and the care you give earns reputation that grows with your collection.

An illustrated care shelf: a sack of fresh substrate with a wooden scoop, a bowl of prepared gecko diet, a tub of springtails, a misting bottle and a small drawstring pouch, among trailing plants.

4 October 2026

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Empty Back reveals the base colour

Empty Back now erases dorsal pattern instead of painting a dark overlay. Pattern clears toward the tail; Super Empty Back leaves at most a small remnant near the head. Pinstripe and Quadstripe remain visible.

Bicolor Patternless Phantoms

A Patternless Phantom now has a subtly different dorsal tone above its plain body. Phantom remains visible and can earn the Bicolor name even when ordinary pattern is absent.

Phantom leaves Whitewall bright

Whitewall now keeps its lower lateral white on a Phantom. Phantom's subtle tint remains on exposed skin and eases away across the Whitewall edge.

Phantom suppresses White Pattern

Phantom now removes ordinary cream dorsal markings on most geckos. A few retain a subdued cream wash. White Pattern stays carried rather than being named, while Pinstripe, Lilly White, and Whitewall remain separate layers.

Phantom suppresses Orange Pattern

Phantom now removes most orange dorsal markings. Rare leftovers are faint, broken brown marks rather than bright orange. Its subtle base tint and other pattern interactions remain separate.

Tangerine pigment and Phantom

Tangerine now warms exposed base skin as well as remaining markings. On a Phantom it can colour a clean flank without bringing back Flame or Harlequin pattern. The game's one- and two-dose Tangerine outcomes remain a provisional model because breeders disagree about its inheritance.

2 October 2026

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A morph library you can cite

Every morph entry is rewritten as detailed reference: its record, an evidence grade with a key, linked sources, and what the game does with it. Pinstripe now comes Partial or Full, and a full one has no breaks.

The Black Base entry in the Morph Library: its drawing labelled Black Base (B/B), a description of what it looks like, and The Record panel showing Fixed dominant inheritance, evidence Grade C with a link to the grade key, and the date it was last updated.Read an entry

1 October 2026

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A new front door

A front page drawn live from genes, and a builder where the gecko never leaves the screen.

The new front page: rows of different crested geckos, each drawn from its own genes, behind the headline No two geckos are the same.Open the builder

30 September 2026

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Finding a buyer

Sell a gecko you have bred, and make room for the next clutch.

Finding a buyer for Mica: three interested keepers, each with what they asked for, how Mica matches it and what they would pay.

29 September 2026

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Holdbacks, retirement and the archive

The decisions that make space, and records that stay.

The archive: two retired geckos, Sable and Clover, kept in full with their morphs, and a note that a retired gecko keeps everything except breeding.

27 September 2026

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Room to keep them

Room for five to start, the first hatch opens more, and a full collection says so before you pair, not after.

Grow-out tubs holding two young geckos, Pip and Mica, each sizing up in a day and 23 hours, beside a count of how full the collection will be after each one.

26 September 2026

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Females rest after a season

After a season, a female rests before she can pair again, and Pairing and her page say when she is ready.

Pairing: Clover and Juniper are eligible, and Thistle is greyed out with a badge reading Resting until Mon 28 Sept, 17:17, above the males Ember and Sable.

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Hatchlings look like hatchlings

Geckos are drawn on the body their age calls for, and grow into the adult they will become.

Pip grows up: the same gecko with the same genes and markings, drawn small as a hatchling and full size as an adult.

25 September 2026

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The hatch reveal

Every gene a hatchling carries is traced to the parent it came from.

A hatch reveal titled Where Pip came from, crediting Pip's genes to Thistle, the dam, and Ember, the sire.Pip's page after hatching: each gene with the parent it came from, grouped into genes traced to one parent and genes blended from both.
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Partial and Full pinstripes

A Pinstripe's rows are now Partial or Full, and you can breed toward Full by pairing your most continuous Pinstripes. A Full Pinstripe has no break anywhere in its pin rows, even where Tiger crosses them, and any break makes it Partial. Every Pinstripe you already have is Full, and you can see which yours is in its details.

24 September 2026

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The incubator

Clutches are candled as soon as they are laid. Viable eggs go on the rack and hatch on the game's own clock.

The incubator: two eggs from Thistle and Ember on a rack of four slots, each counting down to its hatch, and Thistle's season with its first clutch candled.

23 September 2026

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Super Fire, and a lighter Fire

Two copies of Fire now go by their proper name, Super Fire, and finally look like one: a nearly translucent pink-white body with the flesh showing in its shadows, gold flecks along the back and the top of the tail, black eyes, and a blue-grey shadow around them. One copy of Fire on a black gecko is now a light brown, rather than a shade off black.

Sable and Cappuccino, the right way round

Sable and Cappuccino had swapped looks. Sable now lightens the base toward cream, and a Super Sable is nearly cream. Cappuccino now darkens it to a rich coffee, and a Super Cappuccino is close to jet-black. Nothing about how they are inherited has changed, and the health warning for two copies of Cappuccino stays where it was.

22 September 2026

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Pairing, with the real odds

Pick two geckos and see every hatchling they could have, with the odds, from the same engine that decides what hatches.

Pairing Clover and Sable: what one egg could be, four outcomes at 25 percent each, beside the two parents and a button to confirm the pairing.

21 September 2026

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A name, and why it looks that way

Name every gecko, and its page reads its genes back in plain words.

Ember's page: a Black Base Harlequin Tangerine gecko with a Rename button, the genes it carries as chips, and a table of its known genetics with copies, how each shows and how it is inherited.Read the entry

Pixel, properly, and Marbling

Pixel used to scatter the pattern into large fragments, which was a stand-in and the wrong look. It now does what it is named for: the white and orange pattern breaks into static, scale by scale, with no smooth edges left anywhere, and the tail keeps its own pattern. Marbling scatters white marks over the whole gecko the way Snowflake does, but running from single flecks to broad blobs rather than keeping to one size.

Sable, Cappuccino, Highway and Snowflake

The three genes that share one slot are drawn: Sable darkens the base, Cappuccino lightens it toward coffee, and Highway bleeds the pin colour inward over the back. A gecko with one of two of them shows both, which is what a Luwak is. Snowflake scatters white flecks, but only where there is White Pattern to build on, and with a Lilly White the two go close to unicolor white. Geckos whose two copies carry a documented health risk now say so, not only the lethal ones.

Tangerine and Cold Fusion

Tangerine is drawn, and it colours the pattern only: one copy is Tangerine, two are Super Tangerine. A Phantom Tangerine goes tangerine from head to tail, which shows that the film Phantom lays over a gecko is pattern rather than base colour. Cold Fusion lightens the base further than Hypo does.

20 September 2026

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Your own collection

Sign in, and every gecko you keep is saved with its genes and its look, still there tomorrow.

The collection screen: three adult geckos named Juniper, Ember and Thistle in the rack, each with its morph written under it, and a living space bar reading 3 of 5.

19 September 2026

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Lilly White, properly

A Lilly White now whitens the whole animal, head to tail, and leaves its colour in patches along the flank and limbs, rather than painting a white band on the lower side.

Quadstripe, spot density, and two kinds of overlay

Quadstripe is its own gene now, inherited separately from Pinstripe. Pinstripe is plain dominant: the breaks in the pin rows are Tiger cutting across them. Dalmatian says whether there are spots and a density says how many. Empty Back is a dark overlay that makes a pinstripe stand out; Phantom is a light film that covers one.

Tri-colour reads properly

Orange is a full pattern layer with the cream over it, so orange shows at the tips and edges instead of splitting the pattern into patches. Pattern edges are crisp now, with no stray speckles.

Empty Back and Phantom veil the pattern

Neither clears pattern any more. Both lay base colour over it, and how opaque that is decides how much shows. An Empty Back keeps the most pattern at the head stamp.

Tiger bands vary

Bands range from thin lines to broad blotches, pinch as they run down the side, and wander rather than falling straight.

Lilly White

Solid white on the lower side, with its highlighter-yellow belly accent.

Tiger and Brindle

Geckos described as Tiger now show dark bands, with the pattern pushed into the gaps. Brindle is broken tiger.

Quadstripe

Two copies of Pinstripe add a line along the middle of the side, between the legs.

18 September 2026

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17 September 2026

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Every gecko here is drawn as its genes stand today, while you read.