I Made a Desktop Pet in Godot 

I love how coding became difficult because of the pet constantly walking over. Made me laugh out loud. Such an awesome idea, great video!😁

Most dreaded phrase after a programming project: "I'm still not *entirely* sure..."

You may actually have found the only use-case where pygame would've been easier than Godot. Super impressive how well you got it to work!

I have the desktop pet sheep on my laptop. My father had one all the way back in the XP days and my sister asked me a few years ago if she can have it. So I found some guy who remade the old one but in a way that it is compatible with current windows. Now I have it constantly running since my sister asked me about it.

The bird turned out so cute! I loved watching your process! 🕊️

I loved Desktop Pets!! I've missed that trend so much, I'm glad you've made a way to bring them back!

Desktop pets are so hard to make nowadays and I still don’t understand how people make them since it’s not a window

This is so cute! I really liked seeing the bird land on the window after it was moved. You make an interesting point at the end that you'd rather have more of a plan going into projects. I feel like having a plan is the best way to finish something in a particular time frame but when there are no external deadlines it can be nice just to explore and see what happens. If you aren't struggling with actually finishing - and it looks like you aren't - I think it's fun to allow creativity the space it needs to flourish. Thanks for the vid!

Yeah mouse passthrough only refers to other controls within your Godot application, it can't send the events through the app window back to the OS, I don't think it's a bug, it's just how it works. If you think about it it's a big security risk if you can make a fullscreen window transparent and filter all the input through it, and the user doesn't even realize it's there, you could catch all their passwords as they type them through your window and into other apps

It's pretty nice flys around the screen, lands on the windows and all that stuff without any lag or anything.

Really awesome! Love how the bird lands on the windows, it turned out super nice I remember playing with the sheep desktop pets when I was little, and recently tried to figure out what they were called without success so thanks for showing them :)

Good job. You moved really outside of what Godot was designed for. Usually things become hard when you do that. Good perseverance and result.

With those hearts coming out of it, it's clearly a lovebird...

Holy cow. You looked so familiar, and I was like, "I feel like I saw videos of her playing guitar." And yep, that was you! Thats been probably a year or two ago, so you're clearly very memorable!

Very cool project. Thanks for sharing your process!

This is so cool I love it when developers create funny dream projects to learn:)

Thank you so much for including the multiple window github link!

Super creative idea, and the final result is awesome. Love it!

Well it everyone has choice to what to build. But it learning. It good to know someone was working on this project as I was thinking to keep it simple.

Came together beautifully id say. Good job

I remember these!! Fantastic work -- I didn't even know this would be possible with Godot. Great video!

Maaaaaaaaannnnnnnn this new birdie works so well love it

I remember those pets needing to be cared for in the old XP days. (Like a tamigotchi) Great work Rachel! 🦅

I think the current state of desktop pets is Shimeji. It's good to see someone making something new! It's fun to see this work, was wondering how to make it appear at all. The single character limit is interesting, i wonder how Shimeji (which the version i used runs on Java) handled it. Side note, love the dove ❤️ 5he perch was a great idea too But it leaves me imagining multiple birds and perch interactions lol Play musical perch's😂

This is so cute! Love it.

Such a cool project with an even better result

I played this video and I had this vague feeling I'd seen other videos from you. Turns out I used to watch your guitar stuff from 7 years ago, we happened to start playing guitar around the same time. I feel old now. I was in highschool back then and will be finishing uni in less than a month.

This was awesome and very fun to watch. I'll let this bird fly around my screens and perch on my windows for a while!

I'm kinda jealous that you can: 1. Find a project to work on 2. Stick to it 3. Carrying it to completion 4. Draw Great job!

I love this idea!!

Cool project - tackled a few tech issues - great!

That was brilliant and sets precedents for many other ideas of this kind 💯👌

This is such a cute pet, and it works great on mac too. Great job!!

Nice video! I feel motivated to try it out myself.

I keep putting off learning Godot, your videos are great and make me want to try. Keep it up!

Watching this gave me an interesting idea, since I have zero dev skills someone else could gladly take the idea and roll with it. A desktop productivity pet, where its health is determined by your productivity. Spend too much time on youtube or playing games, and the pet starts to get sick.

Oh it looks great! I remember making a simple window without borders that activates on a shortcut key with the win32 api, and it was a lot of mess! And you went way far than that! Great Work

Your channel is the best I've seen on RU-vid on godot

This project is so cute, new fan

This is a really great video! nice job!

Very information dense - I learned so much in this video!

This is sooo cute!

I've been working on a simple desktop pet for a bit and this kinda made me wanna get back into working on it

I've wanted to make something like this for a while now, good stuff!

Really feeling Nostalgic Thank you!!

I love this, what a great project

I just discovered your channel today Rachel. As a solo learning coder/gamedev. I always had a thought on making a fun simplified pet app as well. This took me back to my early computer era of windows 96. It was fun watching the process as well. Also for your first time using godot, overall i thought you did really well. For a future project how about re-create a interactive chips challenge style game.

I didn't know you were doing tech video now. Go you! I loved watching your guitar videos :)

That's a blast from the past! Pretty sure I had a desktop pet on my PC in middle school, and I remember getting up and sneaking into the living room in the middle of the night at my grandparents' house to install one on theirs. 😂 they were not amused

Awesome work! Super cool little idea!

Your pixel art is super cute honestly! I really liked the cat bear rabbit thing lol.

This project is gonna blow up.

Thought I recognized you when the video started😂 Coding and guitar is badass, an inspiration fr 👏🏼

It's insane what can actually be done with Godot. I been trying to learn a bit of it myself but I'm nowhere near making even a realistically simple project happen!

this was so cute and inspiring 😭if I ever actually get into coding I would 100% make a desktop pet

I love this! Going to do something similar in Unity as soon as I have more skills.

Great work! There's something really interesting about crossing system boundaries to interface with lower level APIs in another language.

Excellent idea. Excellent implementation. 🎉🎉

I got an idea like this, but had no idea how to do it. Thanks for sharing.

Nice idea and implementation! I remember using Scmpoo as a kid :D

My old favorite, also my first desktop pet was Neko, all it did was chasing the mouse pointer when i moved the mouse, and slept when nothin happened or scratched the side window if i ran it in window mode as the mouse pointer was outside it’s area it could chase after the mouse pointer. ☺️

Love it, i would like it to get more features in the future

this is just amazing

very high quality video I like it so much!

Pretty inspiring! It's working well on Mac too!

This is super cool. I enjoy these weird corners of the godot community because it gives light to techniques not typically used.

Wow. That's pretty cool. You always neat projects. Have you ever tried making a guitar tuner? it would be a nice way to sort of merge the channels. With your pixel art skills, you could even make vibrating string animations based on sound input. I look forward to your next video.

ohh this is actually rlly cool! maybe ill make a tutorial on smt similar haha

hell yeah man great job!

This is what I've been waiting for!

Haha great video! You've unlocked a very nostalgic memory for me! haha

Great and fun project, thank you for sharing! :D

Thank you for this flashback! 😂

i love this video, your videos are actually sick! something about the way you do these makes me happy.

Instead of using windows api to get the windows position, you could take a screenshot and pass it through a horizontal edge filter (convolutional filter) that way it works on any platform and could land on any edge having a sufficient size

What a great idea and video!

ive actually wanted to do this in godot ages ago. back when click through screen was a --feature-- bug by defualt. cant believe they removed it thanks for making a quick tutorial on how to achieve that effect now

Haha, such a cool idea!

It would probably have been easier to just use C/C++ with the windows api, then you could just draw directly on the screen without any windows.

A step-by-step tutorial for this would be great.

I use to like the after dark screen savers. my favorite was "bad dog" because he grabbed your icons and dug holes in the yard/screen.

Really cool project!

I have the same concept for a game like this. This will be a great reference.

Ur so cool And u earned a new sub🔥

Well done! And kudos for keeping with it! That Gdi32 library can be a pain :) This project made me think of back in the day when you used to get a magazine demo cd with Oddballz on it! Looking forward to more fun projects.

I miss desktop pets 🥺👉👈 Your project is awesome!

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Could you maybe do mouse passthrough with multilple polygons that are connected through thin corridors? I'm not saying that that's reasonable, but it sounds fun :D Very cool project btw!

woah I knew I recognized you from somewhere! used to watch your guitar journey videos!

Nice one! I struggled so much with windowing when i tried to do something similar.

Really cool project, i remember thoose pets from the past. love to see it on a higher level, maybe with some kind of procedural tree the bird builds a nest... ... so it would be like a switching windows game would be pretty crazy see this been done on some Windows:ERR music video

Nice! This reminds me of Oneko. It was Unix-only, but same idea with a cat, though, it didn't have anything like your perch.

im using this right now

Heck yeah, what an awesome idea. Downloaded it, had to append "--rendering-driver opengl3" like a comment suggested but it works great. Now I need to learn Godot and figure out how to change bird/pirch to pokemon/pokeball. I hope you continue to expand on this project. Subscribed.

I forgot which exactly Windows API has translucency and transparency support, whether it be Gdi or Gdi+, anyhow, even on older systems all the way back to windows XP, transparency will work, as long as you copy and paste that DLL along with your game's directory, and use that one instead of the one from System32, basically redirect the directory for the GDI or GDI+.dll, i learned this from Autohotkey v1, since that language which is made using C, is the language that uses the Windows's own call functions the most. It has almost every feature for detecting windows, calling certain Windows only functions that aren't readily built-in into other Programming languages. PS: I made flappy bird using it called Bad Bird on the autohotkey website. So there ya go, new info.

i absolutely love this! i am currently learning godot, and i want to make a duck desktop pet, but i have no clue where to start if anyone reading has any good videos that might help point me in any direction, i would very much appreciate it. the idea of something interacting with the desktop seems so complicated, i would have no idea where to even look to learn how to code that.

I was like "wait aren't you that guitar girl"

I legit have been wanting a desktop pet for YEARS. Somebody please recommend me some safe ones

I think I would try to take a full screen screenshot and use an edge detection algorithm to find places for the bird to land instead of delving into low level APIs. - I avoid the crazy stuff I don't want to touch - the bird can land on any edge instead of just windows - windows with weird features that don't create a visible edge are automatically excluded Downside is obviously that either it requires more continuous processing power or it's not always accurate. The accuracy being lower I personally see as a feature, because it means your bird is more interesting in what it can do at times.

Awe I remember those