Animal Jam - Play Wild!

Play Wild is an Animal Jam app designed by WildWorks that was released worldwide on August 18, 2015. It can be installed for free on iPads, iPhones, and iPods from the App Store, as well as on Android devices from Google Play.

Information
It has several new features for Jammers to enjoy, including enhanced graphics, a 3D world, and much more. The Unity Engine is used for this game. The app was taken off the store on May 27th and brought back on July 1st, 2015.

Animals
Currently there are three animals to choose from when a Jammer plays for the first time, and they are the Wolf, Bunny, and Monkey. Sapphire Shop animals like Foxes (displayed as Clever Fox in the game), Tigers (displayed as Royal Tiger in the game), Arctic Wolves, Horses, Raccoons, and Lions are available with Sapphires (Play Wild's version of Diamonds.)

The animals can be customized - similar to Animal Jam - with two different main colors, an eye color, an optional pattern, and a color for the pattern. Unlike Animal Jam, animals in Play Wild can also have a wide variety of iris patterns with the option of eyelashes for each pattern.

Shops
The main shops that are available are Jam Mart Furniture, Jam Mart Clothing, Jam Mart Flooring, Jam Mart Wallpaper, the Den Depot, The Juice Hut, the Chamber Of Knowledge (first floor only), the Hot Cocoa Hut, Sapphire Store (Play Wild's version of the Diamond Shop.) Epic Wonders, and the Sarepia Theater. These shops include Animal Jam items seen in the original colors and new colors. There are also new clothing, wallpaper, flooring, and den items not yet available in Animal Jam.

Clothing
Jammers can purchase and wear a variety of clothing accessories, which changes depending on the season, to decorate their animals. The clothing is grouped into categories for items worn on the feet, body, neck, face, and head. However, some of the face and head items cannot be worn at the same time. Some items worn on the tail, like those found in Animal Jam, are not yet available in Play Wild.

Dens
The only den available when Jammers first start is the Small House den. Premium dens such as the Tree House, Tiger Temple, Fantasy Castle, Princess Palace, Castle, Moonlight Manor, and Pixel Place (Please note that some of these dens are exclusive to Play Wild.) are also available in Sapphires. Jammers can decorate their dens with a variety of furniture items and then allow other players to come visit their den, just like in Animal Jam.

Music
There are a number of music tracks that can be purchased from the Sapphire Shop. Once obtained, these tracks can be activated in the player's den to play that music in a loop.

Pets
Pets can be purchased from the Sapphire Shop or from Claws 'N Paws in Appondale. The only ones available to adopt are the Tabby Kitty, Lab Puppy, and Monarch Butterfly. Once obtained, a pet will follow the player's animal avatar.

Furniture
There are many den items available for purchase and some of them are exclusive to certain seasons. Den items are categorized as either wallpaper, flooring, plants, rugs, plushies, decorations, seats, or devices. Many of the items in the seats category can be clicked by Jammers to cause their animal to automatically sit in the seat.

When Jammers place these items in their dens, they can be rotated up to eight times to see all the sides of the item, unlike Animal Jam which only shows one side of the item and it can only be flipped horizontally. Also, certain items can be stacked on top of other items, such as the Swirly Pillow and Striped Pillow, to create unique walkways and layouts.

Areas
The current areas available are Jamaa Township, Crystal Sands, Sarepia Forest, Coral Canyons, Lost Temple of Zios, Mt. Shiveer, and Appondale. The other areas that can be found in Animal Jam (such as Kimbara Outback, Crystal Reef, Bahari Bay, Kani Cove, and Deep Blue) have yet to be added to Play Wild.

Places
There a number of Animal Jam based places that can be entered from the main areas such as Jam Mart Clothing, Jam Mart Furniture, the Chamber of Knowledge, Club Geoz, the Pillow Room, Sarepia Theater, the Theater Lobby, the Hot Cocoa Hut, Epic Wonders, Claws'n'paws and the Juice Hut (which is based on Captain Melville's Juice Hut). Some of the Animal Jam places can be found in Play Wild, but they are boarded up and have a "Coming Soon" sign on them such as Tierney's Aquarium, the Flag Shop, the upper floors of the Chamber of Knowledge, the Conservation Museum, and the Art Studio; these are expected to come out in later updates.

There are also secret rooms located in most of the main areas around Jamaa. These rooms can only be accessed by a certain animal: Monkeys in Sarepia Forest, Bunnies in The Lost Temple of Zios, Tigers in Crystal Sands, Wolves in Coral Canyons, Arctic Wolves in Mt. Shiveer, Horses in Canyons Pathway, Foxes in Appondale, Raccoons in The Lost Temple of Zios (Beside the river/stream), and Lions in Appondale (Near the Mud Pit). Each secret room has an exclusive statue, item, and arcade game that can be bought.

Games
There are several mini-games available to play that are very similar to their Animal Jam counterparts such as Jamaa Derby, Best Dressed, Falling Phantoms, Overflow, Long Shot, Pill Bugs, The Claw, the Hot Cocoa Machine, the Smoothie Machine, and Gem Breaker. The Photo Booth can be found with a coming soon sign across it, meaning that it will also be available in the future. However, some of the mini-games are unique to Play Wild such as Phantom Runner, Phantom Dodger, Jumbled Up!, Roll!!!!!, and Postmaster. There are also "Buddy Games" (two-player mini-games) that are similar to mini-games found in Animal Jam such as King Pin (which is similar to Bowling), Ladybug Lane (which is similar to Four Gem), Super Cube, Pop'n, Scooped, and Trivia (which is similar to Temple of Trivia).

Treasure Hunt
The Treasure Hunt is a feature that has not yet been implemented in Animal Jam. Every twenty-four hours, there are a set of treasure hunts for each animal; certain days have extra treasure hunts such as Sapphire Wednesdays or Rare Item Mondays. In each treasure hunt, the player is presented with a set of twenty locked doors and a certain number of keys to unlock some of the doors; regular treasure hunts start with five keys and add extra keys for each extra animal, while the special treasure hunts have a fixed number of keys. For each treasure hunt, there is an exclusive item hidden in a green treasure chest and sometimes there are also blue chests that reward Sapphires; all of the other doors contain varying amounts of Gems.

Parties
The party system is very similar to the one found in Animal Jam: each party takes place in a themed room and lasts for thirty minutes. Unlike Animal Jam however, there are typically only six parties during a given day and they repeat in the same order every three hours. The current parties are the Tea Party, Wolves Only Party, Fox Only Party, Friendship Party, Trading Party, Beach Party, and Dance Party

Missing Features
Despite being based on Animal Jam, there are a number of features that have not yet been added to Play Wild.

Membership
One of the major differences from Animal Jam is that Play Wild does not have any concept of membership. As such, there are no members-only items, dens, or animals. Instead, there is a premium shop with in-app purchases (for things like exclusive items, animals, and dens) that can only be made with real money.

Oceans
There are no oceans areas available as of yet. As such, there are also no ocean-related games, items, dens, or animals available either. However, the oceans areas are seen as places on the Treasure Hunt map.

Daily Spin
The Daily Spin from Animal Jam - where Jammers spin a wheel to win Gems, Diamonds, or items - is not available in Play Wild. It is possible that the Treasure Hunt is the replacement for the Daily Spin since both offer a random chance of prizes and both reset every day.

Trivia

 * Animal Jam members receive a gift of 1 sapphire every day when they login to Play Wild, but originally, members were only rewarded with 300 Gems.
 * In the original Treasure Hunt, the player was presented with an expanded Jamaa world map that had certain locations marked; each location corresponded to a certain type of animal. There were also special locations that could be accessed by any type of animal, but these only appeared on certain days.
 * Many areas that are not yet available to Play Wild or Animal Jam can be seen in the original Treasure Hunt map such as "Arctic Rookery", "Ashfall Volcano", "Autumn Thicket", "Balloosh", "Bayou Delta", "Crystal Fields", "Distant Woods", "Floral Field", "Foothill Forest", "Grand Ravine", "Hidden Coast", "North Timberland", "Northtide Glacier", "Phantom Abyss", "Phantom Ship", "Pitfall Orchards", "Polar Floe", "Seaway Trench", "Thirsty Oasis", "Turtleback Isle", "Wild Waterhole", and "Wildlands".
 * Each main area has at least one mini-game.
 * The secret rooms for each animal seem similar to the "animal bases" idea that AJHQ announced as a planned feature just after Animal Jam Beta Testing. However, these were never added in Animal Jam.
 * The head and face clothing categories in Play Wild are grouped into a single head category for Animal Jam.
 * While many of the Animal Jam lands are available in Play Wild, these lands are not identical and there are various differences throughout them.
 * There is one Tiki Sign for each Animal Zone: in Jamaa Township, there's what seems to be a Panda one, possibly hinting at a new animal for future updates. However, during the 0.7.0 build, the Panda sign was removed.
 * Instead of a square-shaped color palette like the one found in Animal Jam, Play Wild uses a round-shaped color palette.
 * Items can be recycled similar to Animal Jam, but in Play Wild, Jammers can select multiple items at once to recycle and they also receive a confirmation for all of the items before they are actually recycled. This was added to Animal Jam later on.
 * The doorway to the Adventure Base Camp camp be seen in Play Wild, but it is boarded up and does not include any signs suggesting that it will be added in the future.
 * Unlike Animal Jam, the price for buying an animal increases by 3,000 Gems for each of that animal type that is already owned. For example: if a player already owns four bunnies, the fifth bunny they buy will cost 15,000 Gems instead of the regular price of 3,000 Gems.
 * The beta players received a mail with a code. By redeeming the code, the players received the mythical Founder's Items never before seen on Android.
 * Pets were introduced to Play Wild in June 2016.