DeskPets 🐶 🐿️

Desktop pets for Windows. Directly and explicitly inspired by vscode-pets by tonybaloney. This project adopts the same core idea, small pixel creatures living on your workspace.

Installation (Windows only)

Option 1 — Python

pip install deskpets

And to run, in CMD.exe (according to have python in your PATH):

deskpets

Option 2 — Executable

Download the DeskPets.zip from the Release section, extract it, and run DeskPets.exe.

Usage

Launching the application spawns one or more pets in the bottom-left corner of the screen.

Current behavior:

• Unlimited number of pets
• Some species support multiple color variations
• Per-species size control
• Position automatically adapts to the taskbar
• Simple interaction: some pets sit when the cursor gets close

Settings

Missing Features

• Bunny, cat, frog (assets not licensed yet)
• Background system
• Ball play mechanic

Version

CHANGELOG

Credits

This project is inspired by vscode-pets by tonybaloney.

All media used in this project originates from that repository, and the original credits provided there apply here as well.