[puffybunion]

This is such a great idea. Very original, at least as far as I'm aware. Kinda nice to see something like this in today's cynical world.

[mkl]

Not original. Things like this go back at least to the 1980s.

Some I ran ~30 years ago:

Neko: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neko_(software)

Sheep: https://adrianotiger.github.io/desktopPet/

There were even things like this for text mode DOS. I had one that was smiley faces moving around eating letters.

[skirmish]

> Very original

Not really: both Google's internal VS Code based IDE and Colab have various background pets as an option: [1]. I am pretty sure the developer saw them.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Incorgnito/comments/195savi/corgi_m...

[anthonyshaw]

I hadn’t seen those prior to making it. From memory, the example vs code extension is a typing cat so I just evolved that. I had used the old Windows desktop animals from the 90’s.

[taspeotis]

It’s gotta be heavily inspired by Pixel Pals