Some little poorly-drawn cat friends!
They run around on the desktop, sleep, hop, climb the edges of the screen, and bonk their heads on the toolbar if they jump into it.
As of rev2 (BBS release), you can now:
As of rev3, they will jump to and sit on desktop icons!
You can place them on the icons yourself too, or move the icon and they will fall. Sometimes they will fall off on their own, heh.
^^ rev3a fixes a crash in the BBS player due to it lacking desktop icon metadata.
As of rev4, you can add custom characters using extra .gfx files and select them using the command line! See the Alternate Pets section for more information.
The cart currently includes Scribble the cat and Jelly the tiny bird. Simply run desktopPet.p64 jelly to set Jelly as the pet.
Feel free to make your own pets! If you'd like I might even include yours as an option in the base cart! (given permission to do so) Put some character.gfx files in /appdata/cubee/pet/ folder and the program will let you change between them.
You can pass --help to get a printout of installed characters and how to use the command:
To change the character used when run from startup.lua you would add the following argv parameter:
Where scribble is replaced with the character's name as shown in the --help output.