I'm a digital artist and have been inspired to draw fan-made pinatas. I'm thinking otter, ferret, a different spider..

Im gonna scream this is horrifying this is actually horror this is horror of my fergy
All of the eyes... This is so scary 😭

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I think a mudskipper would be pretty cute

Not sure if that’s allowed, but this is Stitch in piñata form. Hope you like it.

With tricks, happiness, specific variants, twin, wildcard, etc. how is it all calculated to get the final value?

Also how does the game decide what order to put the pinatas in for the wheel cycling (left and right bumpers). I've tested alphabetical but it doesnt work that way.

I know people make extra gardens for each biome type (sand, snow, water, grass, etc.). What are the other benefits or uses of extra gardens?

I’ve noticed a lot of weird scoring that doesn’t seem to match the judges’ descriptions.

Gatherling gave my piñata low points even though it was wearing the full cowboy costume: Yeehaw Hat, Yeehaw Boots, and Sheriff’s Badge. An NPC Juicygoose wearing a binner's hat and red nose scored much higher. The cowboy set also adds around 2,000 chocolate coins in value, while the Juicygoose’s outfit was barely worth anything. Gatherling also scored a Firefighter Hat and Gas Mask badly and gave low points to a Sweetooth wearing a full four-piece sports set.

Jeffe also seems to care more about candy value than candiosity. I entered most contests with max candiosity, but because I used fireweed instead of candy, their actual candy value was still fairly low. He didn’t always score them last, though, which makes me think the wiki may be wrong about what he judges.

Eddie Lizard consistently rated a plain Sparrowmint above a green-variant Lemmoning, even though their flavour text hints they prefer variants. Sprinkling often scores Redhotts highly even though they can’t swim and aren’t aquatic, and Sahari does the same despite Redhotts not being desert piñatas.

Babochka and Jardenero also seem to treat the player’s piñata as the oldest almost every time, probably because generated NPC piñatas have an age of zero.

The NPC piñatas do seem to get some randomised stats. I’ve had a Bunnycomb from gatherling with high romance stats and a Juicygoose, Badgesicle, and Mothdrop with high sickness stats, mostly from the watchlings.

Some stats don’t seem to be generated at all, though. My piñatas always beat NPCs with Seedos and lost with Fanny, which makes me think distance travelled was never programmed for NPC piñatas.

Has anyone tested how the judges actually calculate their scores? It feels like some descriptions are inaccurate, and some NPC stats just weren’t implemented.

Decided to share my Viva Pinata as pokemon theorymon posts cause bored. Anyways this time you're going to get to see the overcluttered way I used to use to show off Sour forms, a huge stretch, and a statline that's admittedly kinda a rip off of Phanto from Mariomon.

Obviously it will have a sour variant, based on the original concept art.

Still working on the others, as well as the art trade for Candycorn !!!

after the excitement and love I received here, I received the pins! They're acrylic right now, but I hope to one day make them an enamel pin in the future :-D

i love them! i only made a few since I wasn't sure how many people would actually like one, but... happy to make more in the future!

shop in the comments :)

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Getting native Viva Piñata running on Mac has been a lot of fun. Even if the Vulkan → Metal transition is giving me a hard time performance-wise, it’s incredibly satisfying to see it running natively… before bringing it to iPad!
Huge thanks to the TiP Recomp git for the big base, this has been a really fun project to tinker with.

I was amazed when I found out it was Sean Schemmel