Desktop Draux - Stardance

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@Viy on Desktop Draux · about 1 hour ago

Desktop Draux is an interactable desktop pet that can play ambient music, made for Playground.

It was pretty fun to make especially with making the art and seeing the critter come to life. I also enjoyed how the ambient music feature came together.

I did have some issues with Godot’s window feature, particularly with it registering clicks and drags, but it worked out in the end somehow.

Somehow the .exe file is 100+mb… I think most of it are from the unused assets though.

Definitely pinning the program to my desktop and playing around on it on my own!

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@Viy on Desktop Draux · about 1 hour ago

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Finishing touches! I added some additional settings such as music volume and music effects. Also made the UI different from the default. I made a quick logo and itch.io image as well.

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@Viy on Desktop Draux · 2 days ago

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It is now coloured! Enough with the lineart, the draux now has LIFE. Speaking of life, it also now has DEATH, as you can now close the ‘program’ by right clicking and switching to and clicking the death button.

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@Viy on Desktop Draux · 3 days ago

6h 5m logged

Desktop pet that runs around on the screen and plays sounds! The pet itself is one of my OCs, a draux (which is basically a cat-dragon-whatever hybrid). At this stage I have only finished the lineart however. Currently, you can drag and drop the draux, and right click on it to open an options menu where you can play various background sounds such as waves, rain, etc. The pet will always try to go towards the bottom of the screen. It can also emit small music notes when it is playing a sound (though only a few before it starts to get insanely laggy since each note is its own window).