Comment by puffybunion
2 years ago
This is such a great idea. Very original, at least as far as I'm aware. Kinda nice to see something like this in today's cynical world.
2 years ago
This is such a great idea. Very original, at least as far as I'm aware. Kinda nice to see something like this in today's cynical world.
Not original. Things like this go back at least to the 1980s.
Some I ran ~30 years ago:
Neko: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)
Sheep: https://adrianotiger.github.io/desktopPet/
There were even things like this for text mode DOS. I had one that was smiley faces moving around eating letters.
> Very original
Not really: both Google's internal VS Code based IDE and Colab have various background pets as an option: [1]. I am pretty sure the developer saw them.
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Incorgnito/comments/195savi/corgi_m...
I hadn’t seen those prior to making it. From memory, the example vs code extension is a typing cat so I just evolved that. I had used the old Windows desktop animals from the 90’s.
It’s gotta be heavily inspired by Pixel Pals