Play Desktop Toy
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Community choice | #50 | 3.571 | 3.571 |
Ranked from 7 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
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Tyler
How does your entry adhere to the theme "virtual pet"?
Gribluns live and play on your desktop and will die without attention ):
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The only way I could see this improved is if 1) they were birds and 2) they interacted with the actual windows. Very cool though, brought back a buncha childhood memories!
Interesting game! I included it in my Virtual Pet Jam compilation video series, if you’d like to check it out. :)
help they're getting in the awy fo me witring thins I lvoe thm
this is really fun and cute! very great to just throw em about. I wish there was a lil more too it but honestly great prototype and i'd love to see it fleshed out.
I have no idea how you did the transparent bg for unity but this is glorious. You should add a few more bits and pieces and chuck it on steam or somethin! If you can generate the creatures at run time and programmatically add the faces that would be awesome too! (Cos I recall you said you selected your favorites from the generator and added the faces manually)
The transparent overlay is from https://github.com/pheonise/Unity3D-Desktop-Overlay
Generating the creatures with LookingGlass AI takes maybe 20 minutes to make 25, so it's pretty slow. It's also kind of ??? as to what will happen, so it takes a certain amount of trial and error. I probably generated 600 or so and took 300ish that I liked. I also had to manually erase all their backgrounds and slap faces on most of them. It would be cool if they could be made 'live' but probably wouldn't work as is.
I have made a thing in the past where you could draw creatures on your phone and they would appear live in the game, maybe I could merge that with this...