Virtual Pet

DEVLOG: #2

fall onto taskbar!

this took way longer than necessary, but i made it so when its dragged, it falls onto the taskbar!

i used gemini to help me debug and figure out why my logic wasn’t working, which was because i placed the falling mechanism after the position, so itd call the position before the fall thing would ever occur.

with my handy dandy itch.io warioware grant, i bought the rest of the asset pack since i really liked it! it now can sit instead of just standing as an idle, and i plan to add more stuff like feeding + minigames!

Virtual Pet

DEVLOG: #1

starting it!

this is my FIRST devlog for this project, which has been so fun so far! currently, this is what ive done:

• run animation
• bounce off edge
• draggable
• sometimes stops for an idle at edge

throughout making this, i struggled with the idle animation a LOT because i could not remove the background of it, and i dont want a cat with a white background idling out of nowhere.

for now, i have no idle animation, but i am going to fix it soon once i figure out how to remove the bg without making it look ugly.

i also had an issue where my cat would not actually run, it’d just stay stuck. it took me too long to figure out that i just had the animations named differently, Walk_Right in code but Run in the actual animation itself.

overall, i think this is going great! also, creds to tuff carysaurus for making these sprites! if you want these, you can find the free version at: https://carysaurus.itch.io/black-cat-sprites