The document describes Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets, a virtual pet project created by Google employees. It provides details on the cloud pet such as its birthday and birthplace. It also outlines the development process for the project over a 3 day period in which the team worked to build the pet on MySpace and Orkut using PHP, MySQL and other technologies. The goal was to create an engaging social experience around adopting and caring for virtual cloud pets.

1. Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets
Birthday: Feb 22, 2009 Sun
Birth Place: Google campus, Mountain View CA
Grandparent: Weekend App
Google Technology User Group (GTUG)
Mountain View CA
Apr 9, 2009 Wed

2. Why Clouds?
• Cloud concept is coming from Audrey
• “Fluffy” = Cute
• “Puffy” = Cute
• Join the “Environmental Movement”
• Healthy Clouds = balanced ecosystem
• More Rains = More Cooling
• Generate awareness on Global Warming
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets MySpace.com

3. Cloud Parents
• Audrey Roy, Pretty Cloud Officer
• Bess Ho, Pinky Cloud Officer
• Waleed Abdulla, Weekend Cloud Officer
• Dave Doolin, Salty Cloud Officer
• Jeff Roberts, Architect Cloud Officer
• Hitesh Parashar, Money Cloud Officer
• Bill Overstreet,Virtual Cloud Officer
• Nicolas Kokkalis, Idea Cloud Officer
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4. Cloud Machine
• Extreme Agile Development Cycle
• Work on the same table
• Divide the work
• Design & Layout
• Product Definition & Application Design
• API Integration & Server-side
• Database Design
• Server Admin
• Acceptance Testing
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://fluffypuffycloudpets.com/blog/

5. Art of Making Clouds
Sleepless Hours
Hand-draw
Adobe Illustrator
Drawing Tablet
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6. 3 Day Madness
FRI SAT SUN
Team Building Server SVN MySpace v0.8
Database Orkut v0.8
Product Business Logic APIs
Definition
MySpace Offerpal API
Select Canvas/Profile/
Technology Home Surfaces Optimize
MySpace Surfaces
PHP/MySQL JavaScript
Offerpal HTML/CSS Acceptance
Testing
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7. Sunday Twilight
• Bite Me if we get rejected again?
• Happy Ending
• Launch Official at MySpace 6:15PM
• Singing and Dancing in the RAIN
• RAIN IN SPAIN STAY MAINLY IN THE
PLAINS
• DEMO at 8PM
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com

8. Sun Night Delivery
Sky (Virtual Pet)
Shop (Virtual Good)
Gifts (Invite)
Stars (Virtual Currency)
• Let’s fluff ‘n puff a virtual cloud pet! Get together to
adopt, care and nurture pet cloud, let it grow and
then rain on someone. Hey, that’s a cool way to
save our planet. Show your carin’ and sharin’ side
by loving this little cutie. Adopt and get going. Feed
it water and it would swell with affection. Give it
colored water and see its beautiful character. After
eating the animal crackers it cracks up to shape like
camels and hippos.
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com

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11. 10 from Hungry (Feed)
10 from Loneliness (Fluff)
= 20 Happiness (Daily Max)
Gift = Invitation
MySpace allow to invite
1 friend per click Food (Feeding)
Water, Purple Water, Emotion (Fluffing)
Animal Cracker Fluffy Hand

12. Virtual Good
Stars =
Drops =
Virtual
Points
Currency
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com

13. Invitations / Gifts
Design Decision
Engaging Invitation
via Virtual Good
FREE Gifts
Technical
Challenge
MySpace
v0.7 != v0.8
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14. Virtual Currency
Design Decision
Integrate Social
App with Virtual
Currency
Offerpal
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com

16. MySpace Platform Day 1

17. MySpace Platform Day 3

18. Weekend Launch 2 Weeks After Launch
Scalable
Not Scalable
Google App Engine
Shared Server
Python / Datastore
PHP / MySQL (LAMP)
Beta Release
Working Prototype
Improve Scoring
Minimal Animation
Improve Installation Page
2 Gifts
Add up to 9 Gifts
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com

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20. Joy Luck Club
• over 3,000 users in less than 7 days
• move from private shared web server
• move to Google App Engine
• Continue to work for fun
• Happy Donut at Wee Hours
Fluffy Puffy Cloud Pets http://www.FlurryPuffyCloudPets.com