Start with one plastic rack and two snakes. End up with the animal everyone else wants.
Yes. It runs in your web browser on a computer or phone, with nothing to download and no ads.
Yes. It simulates a ball python breeding operation: feeding, growth, weights, pairing, locks, ovulation, clutches, incubation and hatching, with the babies following real morph genetics. You run the racks, the money and the sales.
Yes. Lock and Lay is a free online reptile game about ball pythons. It plays in any web browser, with a lighter version for phones at mobile.lockandlay.com. There is also a free ball python morph calculator and a guide to every gene.
Inheritance follows real ball python morph genetics: recessive genes need two copies and hide as hets, incomplete dominant (co-dominant) genes show with one copy and make a super form with two, and dominant genes show with one. There are 86 real genes from the morph lists (61 incomplete dominant, 19 recessive and 6 dominant), plus 21 mutation-only genes that only turn up by hatching them.
Yes. Everyone shares one clock, one market and one feed. You can buy and sell animals with other breeders, trade, lend out a proven male, visit rooms that are open, and post your animals to Hatch, the in-game photo feed.
Yes. mobile.lockandlay.com is a lighter version made for phones, with the same account and the same room.
No. It is a game. The genetics are simplified for play, so use real breeders, vets and care guides for real animals.