Introduction

Introduction

KAYLUNE is a pet site. Originally developed in the early 2010s and throughout, it shuttered its doors in 2018 due to the cost of servers. Generally, petsites were losing interest across the board at the time, and the owners had moved into new chapters of their lives. During the time it was open, nearly all work for Kaylune was done by volunteers, with some exceptions.

In September 2024, a small group decided to invest in rebuilding Kaylune. Our decision here was twofold; one, we had gotten messages throughout the years of people wondering if it would come back, and two, we had the time, energy, and money to invest in it. We decided we would use the existing art and features to put it back together with a brand-new codebase, featuring modern technologies like client-side rendering, state management, and typed languages.

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6 Month Road Map

Development Roadmap: The Next 6 Months

We want to keep future players in the loop on our development plans, so here are our expectations for the next 6 months! Due to the fact that our programmers (Kayla, Adam, and Tuna) have their own full-time responsibilities outside of Kaylune, we do not have an estimated date for Kaylune's full release. This is part of why we want to maintain good communication with players and transparency on our progress. Thank you so much for your interest, love, and support!

This document will not be updated with changes to the timeline if necessary. We will have a different way of communicating this information.

This document does not include writing or art work that will be done during this time.

SEPTEMBER 2025

Announce the brand-new Kaylune! ✨

You are here.

SEPTEMBER - DECEMBER 2025

Break! 💤

We will use this time to make changes to layouts, fix known errors, and generally improve upon what we’ve built so far.

JANUARY 2026 →

🐈 PET SYSTEMS PART 2

  • Pet Hovel (abandon pet functionality)
  • On Kaylune, you have a limited number of pets.
  • This will simply include removing a pet from a user’s account and placing it into a location where other users can adopt it
  • This will include the ability to adopt a pet from the hovel
  • Pets can have a kael
  • Kaels are the minipets of Kaylune, pets for your pet!
  • This will include allowing pets to have a kael, keeping track of the date given, and giving your kaels a name
  • This will also include ensuring that pets left in the hovel give their kaels back to the user’s inventory

FEBRUARY 2026 →

👤 USER SYSTEMS PART 2

  • User avatar system
  • This will be set-up. It will not include every function behind an unlockable user avatar.
  • This will include default avatars, and the ability to unlock avatars
  • User settings page
  • Change username, email, password
  • Accessibility Toggles
  • User online indicator
  • This will later allow us to keep track of how many users are online
  • Email Confirmation
  • Confirm email, and block access to various features on the site if email is not confirmed
  • Forgot Password
  • Allows you to get an email that resets your password

MARCH 2026 →

🧸 MORE ITEM FUNCTIONALITY

  • Kaylune already includes some item functionality (i.e., orbs to recolor your pet)
  • This will include:
  • Pet-creation items (to create a special and rare pet)
  • Pet-changing items (to change the species of your pet)
  • Wearables (to be added to a user’s closet)
  • Openables (items that can be opened to gain more items)
  • And anything else not already complete

🥷 THIEVERY SYSTEM

  • Users on Kaylune will be able to steal items from an NPC’s shop, and if caught, effects the relationship with the NPC
  • This will include the thieves’ guild, where you can level up your skills and unlock items with special effects

APRIL 2026 →

🧸 STAFF PANEL FUNCTIONALITY

  • While not glamorous, a staff panel is important to any website!
  • Includes:
  • Ability for staff to access the panel
  • Upload + edit items
  • Upload + edit pets and pet colors
  • Upload + edit pet personalities
  • Upload + edit NPCs and NPC Interactions
  • Beginning moderation system
  • Ability for users to write in and for staff to respond anonymously
  • Ability for users to report other users and for appropriate staff to see it on this page

✨ PET & USER SYSTEMS PART 3

  • Users can edit their profile
  • Users can edit their pet’s profile
  • Users can give their Pets treasures
  • Users can leave comments on other user’s profiles
  • Involves investigating user-written CSS

MAY 2026 →

🌐 KAYLUNE.COM

  • Pulling all completed Kaylune work onto the web
  • Kaylune staff given access to Kaylune
  • Set-up for later alpha and beta testing via keys

📩 FORUMS

  • Forum personalization
  • More information TBD

JUNE 2026 →

🌼 DAILIES

  • General daily RNG features
  • For example, a Flower in Kaytropolis World Park that has a chance every day of giving you an item

🗺️ KAYLUNE EXPLORATION INITATIVE

  • To be announced!