I'm making a game much like Sylestia and ovipets. I wanted to know what technique they use to display pets. My guess is that they query a part of the site that returns an image when src'd, as in this example:


(paste these into a new tab to see them)
https://www.sylestia.com/image_builder_pet.php
Going to the PHP on it's own gives you a simple white egg with no features.

https://www.sylestia.com/image_builder_pet.php?species=kelpari&breed=sylesti&gender=female&gd1=EE&gd2=DD&gd3=BB&md1=AA&md2=BB&md3=BB&ec=e5dfe8&c1=9db0f4&c2=a9abf4&c3=6f52a4&gd1c=91a7a7&gd2c=b9bfe7&gd3c=ebbedb&md1c=ced7e8&md2c=ad7aaa&md3c=dfb3e6&ac=6383e3&ac2=a5d4f4&maturity=216&costume=&unconscious=&size=250&owned=1

That is the PHP for one of my pets. She's quite pretty. I can just as easily make her a him by editing the "&gender=female" in the link (ctrl-f if you can't find it.):

https://www.sylestia.com/image_builder_pet.php?species=kelpari&breed=sylesti&gender=male&gd1=EE&gd2=DD&gd3=BB&md1=AA&md2=BB&md3=BB&ec=e5dfe8&c1=9db0f4&c2=a9abf4&c3=6f52a4&gd1c=91a7a7&gd2c=b9bfe7&gd3c=ebbedb&md1c=ced7e8&md2c=ad7aaa&md3c=dfb3e6&ac=6383e3&ac2=a5d4f4&maturity=216&costume=&unconscious=&size=250&owned=1

So that's my hypothesis. Any other ideas or improvements?

You can find more about it here https://www.marshallspetzone.com/196-pups-and-kittens.

That site has nothing to do with what they were talking about..

???

Is that... a bot? I saw them post something similar on another thread about a concept for a Sylestia app. O.O