The Incredible SHRINKING Barkley! (Glitch?)

[LordRaidor]

Just wondering if anyone else has made this observation...

Whenever you are playing 1-player DiceKinz, there are a variety of 'computer' opponents: Sandy the golden retriever, Devon the black bear, Screech the monkey, etc. No matter what 'opponent' you get though, it is usually the full-size 'WebKinz' version of that animal. The exception to this is Barkley the Cocker Spaniel. Whenever he is selected as your opponent, he will ALWAYS be the miniaturized Lil'Kinz version of the cocker spaniel!

...In the (literally) thousands of games of DiceKinz I have played, I have NEVER seen 'Barkley' as the full-sized 'Webkinz' version of the cocker spaniel. ^_^

What's more, AFTER you bump into Barkley and play against him for a match, ALL OF THE OTHER OPPONENTS you play during that same 'session' (until you exit the DiceKinz arena) will now be MINIATURIZED (Lil'Kinz) as well!

Give it a try and see for yourself. ^_~ When you first enter the DiceKinz arena, every single opponent you face will be "full-size", UNTIL you meet Barkley. He, and every opponent after him, will then be 'miniaturized' until you exit the DiceKinz area completely. ^_^ Strange, huh?...

It doesn't actually affect the gameplay in any way. "Full-size" Screech plays with the same AI tactics and the same dice pool as "miniature" Screech, ...he's just smaller on the racetrack and in his 'profile' photo.

I don't know if the Ganz programmers did this on purpose (to give us some visual variety), or if it's a bonafide 'glitch', but either way, it's funny to play against a "full-sized" Melvin the elephant, then play against Barkley, then meet the "shrunken" Melvin immediately after that...

"Melvin, ...you SHRUNK! ...What the Heck happened?!?..."

^_^
-LordRaidor-

[Diamond015]

Wow, that's weird.. Its not a glitch (I think), and yeah, maybe Ganz didn't make ALL the opponents big webkinz..
Now, the melvin problem is a glitch, because, you know, the first time you saw him when you play Dicekinz, yep, no problem, he is just a big webkinz.. Then you play with barkley.. then you meet lil'melvin! Now that's a glitch! I hope Ganz fixes that soon! But, its funny to see that..

[LordRaidor]

...It's happened to me FAR too many times to be a coincidence...

I'll go into the DiceKinz arena and play a couple of random opponents, but they'll ALL be 'big', ...like so:



...Then I'll stumble across Barkley and play him in a game, and he's ALWAYS 'small':



Then after that, ALL the opponents I meet are 'small', ...even if I run back into the same 'opponents' I saw right before Barkley:



Barkley must just be cursed or something. ^_^ ...I'm just glad he doesn't shrink ME...

^_^
-LordRaidor-

[dumblonde693]

Oooh, that sounds strange...
I can't help here because I don't play DiceKinz. Sorry!