Desktop Pet

Do you remember eSheep, the lovely desktop sheep?
If you had a lot of them on your old Windows desktop... welcome!
This project makes it possible to bring a pet back to your desktop.

You can change the pet and animations by editing an XML file (animations.xml).

Application

This application is not a game, not a utility and not useful :P it simply shows you a pet on the screen. This pet can walk, run, etc. and fall down onto windows on your desktop or the taskbar (on your primary screen).

Download

You can download a compiled Windows EXE from this page: http://esheep.petrucci.ch
The entire code documentation can be found online here: http://adrianotiger.github.io/desktopPet/

Credits

This project uses other open source projects:

NAudio to play sounds
Stall to install the application and create an uninstaller

Thanks

Sergi for the tray icon
Robin improving the code and implementing the Graphviz tool

Want to create your own mate/pet?

The easiest and fastest way is to use the online editor.
But you can also download the original animations.xml and create your own desktop mate/pet.
You will need:

1 application icon (.ico file)
1 animation image: an image with transparency with all possible positions. (.png but not too big... something like 1000x500px)

For more information about editing the XML file and adding your own pet, follow the Wiki page.
You can also download the manual to develop your pet online: Manual-online editor.docx

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