desktop-pet

Download: Desktop pet-1-win64.msi

Introduction

A desktop pet is a virtual animal that will wander around the taskbar of the computer. The best known are the Shimeji or the desktop goose inspired by the game Untitled Goose.

My pet is a very cute axolotl. I was inspired by this picture, to create the gif on Piskel.

I chose this topic because I always wanted to make a desktop pet myself, my own custom pet.

I used the Python programming language.

The modules to download are listed in the requirements.txt file with their version.

Animations :

• normal

  • frames : 3
  • fps : 1

• sleep → waking up

  • frames : 10
  • fps : 3

• normal → sleep

  • frames : 8
  • fps : 3

• walk (right and left)

  • frames : 3
  • fps : 2

• sleep

  • frames : 5
  • fps : 2

• eat

  • frames : 8
  • fps: 5

• refusal

  • frames : 4
  • fps : 3

• happy

  • frames : 4
  • fps: 3

• ghost

  • frames : 5
  • fps : 4

• swim

  • frames : 5
  • fps : 3

• angry

  • frames : 5
  • fps : 2

“bonus”:

• mini-game
• interact with windows

Unfortunately, I haven't had time to do a bonus yet.

possible improvements

I can still improve a lot of things. I can add colors, a death animation, create others animals that aren't axolotls. I can add mini-games or windows interactions. Also, I could create a test file like for example with unittest.