Would you use a desktop tamagotchi?

[Bodsda]

I was thinking about when I was younger and how much fun tamagotchi's were (for a while) I've always enjoyed things like that, like the game Black and White, you get to raise your creature, feed him stroke him hit him etc etc.

If someone (maybe me if i ever learn graphical programming) made a pet raising desktop creature thingy type program would you use it?

[joshdudeha]

You could make it like a screenlet or something?
I would probably toy around with it xD

[hardyn]

it would be cool to see... desklets has a flower, similar idea.

[Orlsend]

I would defiantly use it,it would be cool thing to have. If you are thinking of making something like it and need help (non-codding) I would be glad to help.

[Barrucadu]

I'd play with a terminal-based one :)

[SpriteSODA]

yup it could be pretty sweet, maybe it could be also useful like correcting spelling or somethin... though if you think about it you dont wanna make another Office Pin ;)

[Bodsda]

yup it could be pretty sweet, maybe it could be also useful like correcting spelling or somethin... though if you think about it you dont wanna make another Office Pin ;)

Yeah, i wouldnt want it to be intrusive, just fun and funny, have it pop out of an egg at birth and then grow and play games with you etc.

I think il have to look into this some more then, thought it was just be who would have found this fun, obviously not :)


I'd play with a terminal-based one :)

Could be done quite simply, the main problem would be ncurses + ascii art for the creature

[speedwell68]

I once lived in a share house. I shared with two male friends and one of their girlfriends. The girlfriend had a tamagotchi. She went away for the weekend and left it for us to look after. So we locked it in a draw and starved it, over medicated and generally abused it. Once it was dead, we part boiled it in salt water and it still worked, sort off. So then we deep fried it. We videoed the whole experience and played it back to her. We gave her the money to buy a new one. She actually threatend to report us to the RSPCA.:D

[hikaricore]

http://www.happypenguin.org/show?KTamaga
http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Xtamago
http://dynpet.sourceforge.net/

[Bodsda]

I once lived in a share house. I shared with two male friends and one of their girlfriends. The girlfriend had a tamagotchi. She went away for the weekend and left it for us to look after. So we locked it in a draw and starved it, over medicated and generally abused it. Once it was dead, we part boiled it in salt water and it still worked, sort off. So then we deep fried it. We videoed the whole experience and played it back to her. We gave her the money to buy a new one. She actually threatend to report us to the RSPCA.:D

So would you use it or not? :)


http://www.happypenguin.org/show?KTamaga
http://www.happypenguin.org/show?Xtamago
http://dynpet.sourceforge.net/

I took a look at the projects, but they have gone the tamagotchi route i was going more for the black and white approach

[4th guy]

So would you use it or not? :)But wouldn't it be difficult to boil it if it's a computer? :P