Pingo Social Chat

Pingo Social Chat turns your Zoi's phone into a living social life. Friends, family, crushes, partners, rivals and even exes message you on their own, with thousands of hand-written lines (no AI). Every reply you pick changes your relationship and your Zoi's mood, for real, in the game. Plan outings, get calls at 2 a.m., trade photos, receive gifts with handwritten notes, catch a cheating partner, or set boundaries with a toxic one.

Pingo is in open beta (0.9.8.2). It is already big and playable, but some bugs and translation gaps are still being fixed. Your feedback helps a lot!

Available in English, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish (French is on the way). Open it with the floating bubble, your Pingo key (F9 by default) or the Pingo icon on your Zoi's phone.

Features

Chats that feel alive

• Contacts write to you on their own during the day, based on how close you are: Acquaintance, Coworker, Friend, Close friend, Best friend, Family, Crush, Fling, Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Partner (married), Awkward, Rival and Enemy.
• Every message has 3 replies: a warm one, a neutral one and a cold one. Each reply changes friendship, romance or family points in the game and can give your Zoi a mood (Butterflies, Loved, Remembered, Annoyed, Heartbroken and more).
• Reply tones with a shuffle button: in the Feed and in chats you start, pick a tone (Sweet, Excited, Chill or Dry) and shuffle until you find the line you like.
• The closer you are, the more a bad reply hurts. Ignoring someone ("leaving them on read") also has consequences.
• Contacts have personalities: outgoing (caps and emojis), shy (short, gives up if you take too long) or regular.
• Start a chat yourself: say hi, vent, share news, complain, flirt, make up, apologize, tease, talk about work or home, send good morning / good night, send a photo, or break up.
• Flirty late-night messages and calls between adults (can be turned off).
• Gossip: friends and partners share the latest rumors from town, by text or face to face, including a few special ones starring our beta testers.

Photos

• Album: give a contact some photos (by link) and they'll send them to you from time to time, with a message that fits the photo (beach, selfie, food, night out, travel, pet, gym...). Reply in the tone you want.
• Send your own photos: add pictures in Profile > My photos, then Start a chat > Send photo. Pick a caption tone, shuffle the caption, and see how they react. Sweet and Excited photos raise your relationship once a day.

Relationships with real consequences

• Flirting: subtle, direct or bold. A good flirt creates "chemistry"; with enough chemistry you can ask for a date, and a good date turns you into Crushes.
• Jealousy and love triangles: flings and partners notice when you flirt or talk too much with someone else.
• Relationship timeline: open a contact to see your story together (first chat, first date, started dating, fights, making up).
• Partner types (Fling, Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Partner): pick one on the contact page or let Pingo surprise you.
  • Romantic: remembers dates, plans surprises, sends sweet notes. Gets hurt by cold replies.
  • Seducer: teases, bold invites, loves late nights. If you stay cold 3 times in a row, they disappear for 2 days and come back with "did you miss me?"
  • Cheater: extra sweet but disappears, makes excuses and leaves clues. When your suspicion is high, you can Confront them: forgive, give a last chance, or end it.
  • Toxic: jealousy, control and guilt-tripping, shown without romanticizing it. Giving in makes your Zoi feel Smothered; setting a boundary may work or backfire; friends notice and reach out; Break up is always available and brings Relief.
• Exes: Clingy, Toxic, or On-and-off ("I messed up, but I love you"). Exes keep texting with their own stories.

Feed, calls and gifts

• Feed: contacts post moments about their day and mood; react or comment. You can post too, and contacts react.
• Calls: contacts call you (news, bad day, gossip, help, insomnia, boredom, an apology, a pocket call...) and you choose what to say. You can also call them.
• Gifts: friends send real objects to your Zoi's bag (plants, books, teddy bears, tickets, flowers...), each with a handwritten note. Tap the gift card in the chat to open it. Rivals and enemies send... less nice gifts.

Outings and in-person moments

• Plans: invite or get invited to coffee, a snack, the park, the beach, the cinema, dinner, a night out, studying, games, a sleepover, an amusement park, or a visit to your home. Both Zois actually go to the place.
• If the other Zoi gets there first, Pingo lets you know and they text you while they wait. If they're asleep or can't leave, they tell you and suggest another time.
• After an outing, the other Zoi comments on it, and remembers it days later.
• Live scenes: when you meet someone, a scene can start right there ("we need to talk", "you stood me up", jealousy, gossip, venting, making up, an invite...).
• Pingo tab in the talk menu: start topics face to face. Afterwards, tap the "Talked in person" note in the chat to see how it went.
• Thoughts: small bubbles above your Zoi reacting to what happens on the phone.

Life happens

• Contacts react to game events: becoming friends, dating, weddings, divorces, babies, pregnancy, deaths, skill milestones, growing up and the change of seasons.
• In memory: when a contact passes away, their chat stays at the end of the list, read-only, with a 🕊️.
• Jail: if a contact gets arrested, they lose signal and reply when they get out. If you get arrested, your phone is taken.
• Hobbies and skills come up in conversation.

Make it yours

• Profile photo (your Zoi's portrait or a link), name, status, wallpapers (or your own image by link), light/dark theme, main color and the color of the bubbles you receive.
• Contact photos by link: give any contact a custom picture. If the image doesn't load, the game portrait comes back.
• Remove or block contacts: blocked contacts stop texting, calling, inviting and sending gifts. You can unblock them anytime.
• Open Pingo with the floating bubble (default), the in-game phone, or both, and choose your Pingo key.
• Cheats: force scenes, messages, calls, gifts, photos, partner types and more. Great for stories and videos.
• Each save has its own Pingo.

How to install

From the game (recommended):

1. Open inZOI and go to the Mods menu on the main screen.
2. Find Pingo Social Chat, install it and make sure it is enabled.
3. Load your save and click the floating Pingo bubble (or press F9).

Manually (from the folder):

1. Download the zip from the Files tab.
2. If you have an older Pingo, delete the old PingoTeste_4DBFBAEA folder first (your chats are saved elsewhere and stay safe).
3. Extract the zip into Documents\inZOI\Mods, so you end up with *Documents\inZOI\Mods\PingoTeste_4DBFBAEA* (with mod_manifest.json inside).
4. Open the game, check that Pingo Social Chat is enabled in the Mods menu, and load your save.

Use only one of the two (game or manual), not both. The folder keeps its technical name, PingoTeste_4DBFBAEA. In the game the mod shows up as Pingo Social Chat.

The first time, Pingo asks which contacts from your Zoi's phone you want to add. After that, new people you save in the phone show up in Contacts.

How to uninstall

• From the game: open the Mods menu, then disable or uninstall Pingo Social Chat.
• From the folder: close the game and delete Documents\inZOI\Mods\PingoTeste_4DBFBAEA.

Your saves keep working without Pingo. Relationship points and moods that Pingo already gave stay in your save, since they are real game values.

Good to know

• Pingo works with young adults and older. Teens and children are not added, and late-night flirting only happens between adults (you can turn it off in Settings).
• Photos need an internet link that doesn't expire (Imgur, ImgBB or Catbox). Discord links stop working after about 24 hours.
• When a gift arrives, the game shows "AddItemToBag ... cheat applied". This is normal: it is the only way the game lets mods add items to the bag. It does not turn on cheats in your save.
• Pingo doesn't show up? After installing or updating, the game sometimes adds the mod as disabled. Open the Mods tab, turn Pingo Social Chat on and restart the game.
• Something went wrong? Open Settings > Diagnostics, tap Save log, wait a few seconds, close the game and send me these two files with a short description: Documents\inZOI\Mods\InGame\PingoTeste_4DBFBAEA\pingo\registro.cfg and %LOCALAPPDATA%\BlueClient\Saved\inzoi_lua.log.

Known issues (beta)

• Bubble on the first load: on some PCs, the Pingo bubble doesn't respond right after loading the game. Travel to another lot or reload your save once. We're working on a fix.
• The Grapevine icon: with Pingo, ZoiMatch and The Grapevine installed together, The Grapevine's icon may sit out of place on the phone. We're checking this with SoftLatte.
• Photos only work with internet links. The game doesn't let mods open files from your PC.
• The Pingo tab in the in-game talk menu still shows its topic names in English when the game is in Portuguese or Spanish.
• Some English and Spanish translations may sound a bit off in places.
• Some outing places may be closed or have no entrance in some cities.

Credits

• Made by MeeiruMods
• Friends from the modding community: SoftLatte, SaikiJa (Yukoko), JudgeMinai, AshCodes, and the whole inZOI modding community
• Testers and bug reports: Damnittcam, Matheus, LuciaKate, SnackMuncherz, Bree, Gabs, Ella, Tefa, kEB, Davinneca, JacksonKierra, KASH, xoanilove, lullabi
• Twemoji (Twitter/X and contributors, CC-BY 4.0), Pretendard font (SIL Open Font License), Caveat font (The Caveat Project Authors, SIL Open Font License)

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Pingo is free and always will be.