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Desktop Pet Engine

Place your favorite characters on your desktop!A desktop idle game for work, study, and fun. Summon cute companions to keep you company, vent stress, or collect characters. Quickly access productivity tools like notepads, Pomodoro timers, and task lists—making your desktop lively and efficient!

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About the Game

Game Introduction:

The core gameplay of the game is to use your favorite assets to create various types of desktop pets. Of course, you can also download desktop pets shared by others from the Workshop.

In the hand-made (figure-style) desktop pets category, you can create a desktop pet with minimal art resources, such as a single illustration or animation. More settings like shaders will be added in the future.

In the conventional desktop pets category, you can create desktop pets that can idle, walk, be dragged, jump, and fall. You can set some behaviors for the pet, and it supports the use of illustrations or animations for creation. Future updates will add more customizable states, actions, interactions, and sound effects, more behavior design parameters and AI-driven behavior patterns, as well as interesting features like affinity and health metrics, and support for creating pets using 3D models and Spine format.

Currently, the game provides several official clicker-type and typing input-type desktop pets. The ability to create these types of pets will also be opened to players in the future, and the development of more interesting types of desktop pets will continue.

Regarding general tools, the game is equipped with a notepad (can be set to always on top), task list, Pomodoro timer, as well as keyboard and time counters. Subsequent plans include integrating AI large language models and developing more productivity tools.