desktop bird
A downloadable friend for Windows
Have you ever wanted a small bird friend for your desktop?
Of course you did. Here's the answer to your wishes !
He will bounces along your windows taskbar, minding his own business while you're working. Unlike a certain goose, this one actually respects your time and don't want to disrupt your workflow. Though, he sometimes get hungry, so he might peck around for a bit.
Features :
- A really cute bird
- Does nothing incredible
- He's really cute though
- Look at that fluffy belly
This bird was initially made for a Ludum Dare submission, that you can play for free right here !
Want to create your own desktop pet? Here's a tutorial.
All the code was written by Seebass22. Art by Sebastien "Glaas" Decuyper
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Why does it keep bashing its head like that? Cardinals dont behave like that.
is this a virus?
nah
can you make a mac version?
why does VirusTotal says this got a trojan?🤨
Unfortunately it's a common issue for python programs packaged with Pyinstaller or cx_Freeze :(
Omg your tutorial is amazing!!! Thank you so much! I wish I had seen this before I spent all the time figuring it out haha, making the tkinter background transparent was a nightmare
Aww thank you! I'm happy you found it useful.
I learnt it from another tutorial, but found the code a bit confusing.
At some point I'd like to try making a desktop pet with another programming language or library. Looks like pygame could be a good choice, but I'm guessing any other game framework/library that can draw transparent windows would work well too.
desktop bird 10/10
make it work for mac please?
flapjack who
birb ♥
chirp*
if you summon bird multiple times you get more so now i have 5 birds very cool
get like 50 birds it lags alot
very birb
Cute, i guess he needs company, he's a bit bored & frustrated. Kindly add some audio, chirpping or add some angry bird lines, pliiiz!!
burb.
goose needs a friend
i needed a friend for my goose so i thought maybe this didnt download yet
really cute
birb.
birb!
B i r b
b i r b
b i r b
he's a very cute birb
edit: he runs off my second screen and stays there for a while hiding :(
chromebok
can you make it support linux?
I cannot start it!How can you start it?
Click the video lookin icon
awwww its so cute
btw he started vibing to my music haha so cute ^-^
i put up every desktop bird i have just to be a goof now i have a goose, birb and pigeon just wandering about haha
lol
there is an desktop cat too
Thanks for your work and tutorial. The bird is very cute.
Could I use your code to make desktop pets for my friends and me?
I hope my poor English doesn't offend you🥺
Sure! You can do whatever you want with the tutorial code. I'm glad you found it useful. :)
you are very kind😊
Your English is actually very good.
😳!😊
birb
birb
birb
why does my birb not fly
I would like to know this as well
I never added flying. Maybe if I continue working on it, I'll add it someday.
Alr
how do I close the bird boi
Close the cmd.exe window that appears with the bird
i'm gonna pair this up with desktop goose
me too
Nice
i paired it with desktop goose, desktop meadow, desktop crewmate, and desktop pets(customizable)
*opens every single desktop pet i have just to be stupid*
What a gorgeous bird!!
I was in the process of respriting the bird into my own version, the left and right gifs work fine but if I resprite the digging gif (either one) it doesn't work. Any idea as to why?
Perhaps you're using a different number of frames? That's my only guess
is this open source? if so, could i please get a link to it's source? thanks!
Hi! It's not open source right now, but I might open source it in the future when I decide on a license. My code has no comments though. I did write a tutorial that should get you set if you're looking to do something similar: here. It's a bit of a work-in-progress though. There's also another tutorial if you google "python desktop pet tutorial", but I found it a bit confusing. Hope that helps!
hi there! thanks for the tutorial, it's quite helpful! and as for the source code, dont worry about it!
Yay i have birb in computer! :D
yay :) birdie yay it works :):)
how do i open it it says system error
it might require Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable (see my reply to guilber below). otherwise it could be an antivirus issue
my app not open
only cmd open of 2 segonds
you can just close the cmd.exe window that opens
how to get off birb?
birb :D