Can you remember eSheep, the lovely desktop sheep?
If you had a lot of them on the desktop... welcome to this page!
This project gives you the possibility to add a pet to your desktop.
With a simple XML file (animations.xml) it is possible to change pet and animations.
This application is not a game, not an utility and not useful :P it simply shows you
a pet on the screen. This pet can fall down up to the taskbar and is able to detect
windows on your desktop.
In this way, this pet is able to walk, run, etc around your working screen area (on primary screen).
| Windows 7/8/10 | Windows 10 | Webpage | Tools | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Portable exe | Store app | Javascript | Desktop applications |
| Description | Download rar, extract exe file and execute it. There is no installation. | Download it directly from the Microsoft store | Javascript file to implement it on your webpage | Some tools to edit and create your own pet. |
| Link | Open page to download or download zip | Windows store | Open GitHub project | -Download Pet Editor |
This project used other Open Source projects:
- NAudio to play sounds
Robin improving the code and implementing the Graphviz tool
The easy and fast way is to use the online editor: Open online editor webpage.
I am working on an offline editor, it will give a lot of tools and is faster than the online editor: Download offline editor from GitHub.
But you can also download the original animations.xml and create your own desktop mate/pet.
What you need are:
- 1 application icon (.ico file)
- 1 animation image: an image with transparency with all possible positions. (.png not too big... Something like 1000x500 px)
For more info about editing the xml file and add your own pet, follow the Wiki page.
or download the manual to develop your pet online: Manual-online editor.docx