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


StatusIn development
CategoryTool
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
AuthorsSeebass22, Glaas
Tagsbirb, bird, cardinal, Cute, desktop, Desktop Pet, pixel, Pixel Art, Virtual Pet

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desktop bird 14 MB
Version 3 May 12, 2021

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SO BAD IT HAS 4000 FILES TO ETRACT IT TOOK 2 DAYS JUST TO OPEN CMD AND WHEN I REINSTALLED IT IT DID NOT WORK

When I extract the files to my desktop, my desktop became FULL,

(I thought it was gonna be one file of all the stuff)

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doesnt work L

"unlike a certain goose"made me laugh we all know what goose it is 

aight so  if i pair the borb with the baba  friend,it dosent lag,but if i add ONE SINGLE GOOSE it lags hard.

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i downloaded this and my cpu started frying and  when i  play stuff,it lags
can i trust this thing?

im going to istall it again,if it lags again, i dont even kno

trojan..

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The game won't start(

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Why does it keep bashing its head like that? Cardinals dont behave like that. 

is this a virus?

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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 :(

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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.

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desktop bird 10/10

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make it work for mac please?

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flapjack who

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birb ♥

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chirp*

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if you summon bird multiple times you get more so now i have 5 birds very cool

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get like 50 birds it lags alot

very birb

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Cute, i guess he needs company, he's a bit bored & frustrated. Kindly add some audio, chirpping or add some angry bird lines, pliiiz!!

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burb.

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goose needs a friend

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i needed a friend for my goose so i thought maybe this didnt download yet

really cute

birb.

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birb!

B i r b 

b i r b

b i r b

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he's a very cute birb
edit: he runs off my second screen and stays there for a while hiding :(

chromebok

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can you make it support linux?

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I cannot start it!How can you start it? 

Click the video lookin icon

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awwww its so cute

btw he started vibing to my music haha so cute ^-^

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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

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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.

😳!😊

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birb

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birb

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birb

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why does my birb not fly

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I would like to know this as well

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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

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i'm gonna pair this up with desktop goose

me too

Nice

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i paired it with desktop goose, desktop meadow, desktop crewmate, and desktop pets(customizable)

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*opens every single desktop pet i have just to be stupid*

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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

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