The Desktop Pet arrives
Little guy that lives on your desk!
Tuesday, December 13, 2005 by Draginol | Discussion: Personal Computing
Just in time for Christmas, Stardock has released the Desktop Pet. The Desktop Pet lives on your Windows XP desktop. He will interact with various included desktop objects. A sophisticated artificial intelligence engine helps bring him to life by giving him needs such as hunger, sleep, boredom, and even (ahem) the need to take a potty break.
Users can set the various included desktop objects to be automated or take care of the feeding and cleaning up on their own. It also includes options for muting sound, pausing, and unloading. The pet is saved to disk regularly so that if you close it or reboot he will be back to where he left off when you bring him back up again.
Stardock hopes to keep updating the pet after release to keep adding new behaviors, additional objects, and new habits to help keep the experience fresh and to respond to customer input. The Desktop Pet is a fun $10 diversion and makes a great stocking stuffer for the computer user in your family.
The home page for the Desktop Pet is https://www.stardock.com/products/desktoppet
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Reply #2 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 3:16 AM
Looks like a dummied down version of GoPets. Of course GP is acutally much more sophisticated since it allows you to create a dog or cat, name it, and colorize it to your liking. You can dress it up in clothes, feed it all kinds of different food, and play mini games. Pets can even use stuff like planes and roller skates. New content is added *every* week too. They eventually plan to even have pet breeding so that pets can have puppies or kittens. I'll stick with my free pet that has a lot more potential.
Reply #3 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 9:12 AM
Reply #4 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 9:23 AM
| Looks like a dummied down version of GoPets. |
They aren't at all the same thing. Desktop Pet is for people who just want something fun on their desktop, it's not a "community" that pays subscriptions and pays for clothes and other items for their cat or dog. GoPets is a "social network". Desktop Pet is more...well..anti-social.
Reply #5 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 9:41 AM
Reply #7 Thursday, December 15, 2005 10:04 PM
| any chance of a kitty version? |
See the following post, here: https://www.wincustomize.com/Forums.aspx?ForumID=153&AID=95155&p=2
#52 by Admin Frogboy
Thu, December 15, 2005 8:14 PM
Reply #8 Friday, December 16, 2005 4:26 PM
Nice idea Draginol.
Reply #9 Friday, December 16, 2005 4:44 PM
Reply #11 Saturday, December 17, 2005 8:29 PM
| I disined the cheesemaker for it. |
(Hint-for your future spelling tests it's 'designed')
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Reply #15 Sunday, December 18, 2005 6:54 PM
A 'chip off the old block'.....
or is that 'tadpole'?....
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Reply #1 Wednesday, December 14, 2005 1:51 AM
Yes, I can see this pet becoming a desktop addition around here....my wife saw the SS and went: "cuuuute, I want him."
That'll teach me to allow her to look over my shoulder.