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Screen Pet Engine

Adopt a living desktop pet, or make your own. Import your art, wire simple behaviors on a visual node graph, and watch it walk, idle, etc, and tumble across your real desktop. A cozy little studio for building the companion your screen's been missing.

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lichingchester
Publisher
Reframe HK Limited
Release
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About the Game

Your desktop, but alive.

Screen Pet Engine drops little animated companions onto your real desktop. They walk along your taskbar, idle by your open windows, and fall with gravity when you pick them up and let go. Start with the pets that ship in the box, or make your very own.

Turn your art into a living pet.

This isn't just a pet viewer. It's a tiny studio:

  • Import your art: PNGs, GIFs, or sprite sheets. Slice sheets on a grid with smart detection.

  • Wire behaviors visually: connect simple nodes (Idle, Walk, Random…) to give your pet a life of its own. No code required.

  • Watch it come alive: your character, walking around your screen, in minutes.

It stays out of your way.

  • Focus Mode: makes every pet click-through, so they never block your work, they just gently dim when your cursor passes.

  • Pets are cosmetic company, not a resource hog.

Pixel or smooth. Pets and props.

  • Crisp pixel art or smooth hi-res animation: your choice, per sprite.

  • Add objects for your pets to share the screen with.

  • Runs on macOS and Windows.

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