my new fav app - pokemini!

hiya!! i wanted to make a lil post about a cute game i found!! i'll post app store links at the bottom of my post!!

pokemini is a really cute dressup and avatar social app. there's a story shown when you first load the app which explains that the minis live in the pockets of humans (because it's on your phone which is kept in your pocket, how cute!!) on little planets, and eat donuts. loads of donuts.

so you get you little friend and a planet and a tree. you start with a pretty basic tree but you can get much fancier ones over time. as you can see i have a choco mint dream tree currently which i bought from the store along with my rainy day tree (which produces teru teru bozu!!) and my kitty bell tree which i got from one of the gumball machines. i'll write about them in a bit.

you can water your tree, but for it to grow it needs a lot of waters!! that's where the social element comes in. you go and visit other mini's planets, water their trees and hope that they return the favour! each mini also has a 'slapboard' inside their homes which you can slap, like a hi-five, once a day for extra experience and medals.

the picture to the right shows what my planet looks like at the minute. you can't see my tree because no one has watered it, boo!!

all of my items on the planets, except the main section of the planet, the ice cream cone, came from gumball machines. these work like gumball machines, or gacha machines in real life. you pay for a turn and recieve a random item. the gumballs come in sets on pokemini. there's usually one for planet items, clothes items, accessories and interior items. the first time you use a gumball it will only cost you 60 donuts, and the price will go up a bit each time until it costs 200. some start at 200, though, but only the super premium special ones. you can also earn gumball tickets which give you a free pass to use a gumball without spending your donuts.

to the left is an image of the item list for one of the sakura themed gumballs that were released a few months ago. as you can see, i've played this gumball a number of times and have all but one of the items. the gumball mechanics are not quite as random as you'd expect, and some items are definitely more rare than others. all i wanted from this gumball was the moonlit sakura long hair. i spun this gumballs 50+ times to try and get it out. i squealed a little bit when i got it. i'm not going to try to complete the set, because i'm not really a gumball completionist and i only really spin them until i get the item i want. the sakura lady kimono item i have 5 of from trying to get the hair i wanted.

the best thing about pokemini to me is the avatar customisation. to the right is a picture of the edit style screen where you change your mini's clothes, hair and accessories that you've got from the gumballs or the store. it's broken up into sections, hair, tops and bottoms, full outfits, shoes, accessories and saved outfits. the hair works much differently to other games like this in that you get a front and back part of the hair and can mix and match. the sakura long hair i mentioned earlier is broken up into the front white bangs and the long white and pink section at the back, so you could take the long part and add bangs from a brown hair to make a chocolate strawberry look, or black bangs to make a cute pop punk kind of thing. it makes creating unique looks a lot more fun and easy.



there's a huge range of differently styled outfits also. i mainly wear the full outfit options because they're easier to style than the top and bottoms options. some of my favourite outfits include the strawberry bambi dress my mini is wearing in the picture, a cute sherlock holmes themed dress and the cute bat outfit from the monster gumball.

you can also edit your looks!! there are a million different options in here to make the most unique and pretty mini you can. there's face shapes, eye styles, eyebrows, noses, mouths and cheeks. it's updated pretty regularly also, so there's often many new styles to try out and see how your mini can change.

there's a whole bunch of colours for each section also. you can have natural colours or you can go for a more rainbow mini look and have pink eyes with blue skin if you want.

i suppose i'll quickly mention cooking, although it's a pretty small part of the game.

visiting a mini, watering their tree and slapping their slapboard costs hunger points, as with any of these free apps. eventually, mini gets too hungry and cannot do any more actions!! there are a few ways to fix this. a level up will always fill mini up completely. you can pay in donuts to fill her up completely, or you can cook food.

cooking does not cost any hunger points, and when you eat the yummy food your hunger points go up so you can finish visiting other minis.


ingredients for cooking are gained from trees. you can harvest your own tree or trees of friends for free when they are fully grown, or for a whole bunch of donuts you can harvest from anyone's tree. but that's not worth it. you can put those donuts in the gumballs. i'm not addicted.


look! my mini learnt to cook something new!! when you learn a new recipe you gain skill points in cooking. it takes a lot of points to level up your cooking skill. i'm a level 48 mini now and i have not upped my cooking skill.  it's still worth cooking if you get ingredients, though. most recipes fill up about 30 hunger points, which is enough for three actions!!

recently, pokemini has been running a new mini game of sorts named fashion fever.

you'll be given a theme and your goal is to make an outfit around that theme. you can see a few of the examples in the picture. others from this round (this was the third round of fashion fever, number four should be coming soon!!) included dark elf,  proud bookworm and biker girl.

it's not as simple as just making a look though, there are many things you have to take into account. the themes sometimes come with rules, such as biker girl had to be wearing trousers. the bee theme had to include yellow and black items.

then, you have two bars when you're making the look. unworn and gumball. you get more points for wearing items you've never used in fashion fever, and more points for items gained through spinning gumball than items bought from the store. this can make creating a look really quite tricky, because you want to do your best to fit the theme, but you also want to max out those two bars to get the best score.

eventually, the theme will close and it will then open for voting. voting is done perfectly in fashion fever and the more popular minis won't always win because they can ask more friends to vote for them. when voting you will be shown two minis. no names. you just pick the one that matches the theme better. the one you pick will gain points, the other will not. if you are both good (or both awful sorry) you can decide to vote for neither of them.

voting is also how you get to enter more themes. to enter a theme you must have enough tickets. you get two tickets per five votes, so it doesn't take much to stock up on them.

when voting for a theme ends you can check on how you did. i chose to show my results for friendly vet because it was the only one i did particularly well in. you can see i got 3.79 points from other minis voting, and .30 points for unworn and gumball items, giving me a total of 4.39.

depending on your final score you get rewards!!! for a super good five heart win you get a very rare item, lower down results get less rare items, but it still beats paying for them. you can also share your result to get a gumball ticket which is useful as it adds another item to your collection that will possibly give you the unworn and gumball points in the next theme you enter.




the sharing does shove a whole bunch of hashtags onto your twitter, though. also you can see i did pretty bad at the fairy godmother theme. i thought she looked cute >:(

there's also a screen showing the top rated looks from each theme.  they usually look pretty similar. tapping any of the popular looks will show you what they used in the outfit, and allows you to buy it, even if its a gumball item but it will cos you. i tried to buy the sakura long hair this way before i got it from the gumball and it was over 2000 donuts. that's about £8 if you were to buy donuts to buy the hair.

buying donuts is very simple, though. i've done it a few times. occasionally pokemini runs a 1.5x or 2x donut promotion where you get extra donuts for your money. i've only spent about £4/5 but got a lot of things for it. i don't really see the harm in paying for this kind of game if you're really into it.

okay, last thing i wanna show off!! recently pokemini added pokecam!! you can use your phone or tablet's camera to put your mini into the real world and take pictures with them!

i asked mini to help me write this post, ;)

pokemini also run contests on instagram using this feature where you can win in game items.


you can download pokemini for yourself here:

google play store

ios app store

you can find out more about the app and interact with other minis here:

facebook | twitter | instagram

if you happen to download the game from this post, add me using the mini code in the first image of this post. or if you already have the game, add me the same way!!

bye :)