CappyHappy Details

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What is CappyHappy?

CappyHappy is a capybara desktop pet that likes to mess about. Cappy will walk around, sit and lie down, and sometimes steal your mouse. He needs special care to keep his stats up, and if they go too low, Cappy may die - so keep him alive as long as possible.

Who is CappyHappy?

Cappy is the capybara (with two 'p's) that causes mischief on your screen.

But who makes Cappy?

Well, we are Pineapple Works, a group based in Sydney, Australia, and we make fun tech stuff for the world in our free time. Join the Pineapple Works community and make our projects better! We have a Discord, and the CappyHappy-Hub GitHub Repo is for suggesting features and reporting bugs. If you have any issues, we will be more than happy to help - shoot us an email.

Why is CappyHappy?

We created CappyHappy as our first project to give us something fun to work on and progress our coding skills. We chose it because desktop pets were popular but not distracting and interactive enough. That might be a good thing, but many people like being distracted!

We were inspired by, of course, Samperson's Desktop Goose, and the Tamagotchi devices, and tried to recreate the interactivity of a Tamagotchi in a Desktop-Goose-style pet. We had been obsessed with capybaras, and the online community seemed to share our sentiment. So we brought these together and after a lot of coding, designing, racking our brains, and frankly some ChatGPT assistance, we ended up with CappyHappy.

We had to give up on our plans to make CappyHappy 'free and open source' due to financial priorities. However, f the project ever dies, we'll be sure to release it under GPL or MIT. For now, make sure you abide to our strict proprietary license.

The Interface

Launch the app and you'll see Cappy immediately spawn in and wander around your screen.

Click the hut icon in the menu bar (the hut where Cappy lives!) and you'll see the hut window. This is the main control centre of CappyHappy. At the top, you'll see 4 tabs:

Statistics

The stats tab shows Cappy's health. As of now, there are 4 measurements.

• Hunger drops over time - you'll need to feed Cappy carrots to keep the hunger bar up. Yes, more hunger is good. Don't ask.
• Hygiene corresponds to the amount of sh*ts on screen. Cappy takes a sh*t every now and then. Each sh*t minuses 10 hygiene points, so clean them up quickly with the broom! 10 sh*ts and Cappy dies from poor cleanliness.
• Energy drops over time - you'll need to put Cappy to sleep to replenish it. The longer Cappy sleeps, the more energy is replenished... but there's a maximum amount you can get per sleep, so don't think that you can get away from Cappy's antics!
• Finally, disease starts from 0 and is bumped up occasionally but greatly with every virus. More disease is bad, so vaccinating Cappy decreases his disease level, by strengthening his immune system and preventing future infection.
• Of course, the age statistic shows how long Cappy has been alive in your current run. Quitting the app will pause this, so you can't cheat. Keep Cappy alive for as long as possible!

Health is an average of all these scores. Keep this high.

Cappy will die if its health drops below 25, or if any of these drop to 0! (except for disease - it's 100 instead.)

Interactions

The interactions tab allows you to interact with Cappy to keep health stats up!

Clicking on an interaction will spawn an item at your cursor. Long-hold it on top of Cappy to use it, and right-click it to cancel.

• You can feed Cappy a carrot to replenish 10 hunger.
• Vaccinating Cappy resets the disease level... for some reason. Uhhhhm - it means immunity, okay?
• You can also put the capybara to sleep with a pillow. This is good to take a little break from Cappy's antics, and the more time spent sleeping, the more energy recovered... with a cap, of course. You also can't to do anything else while Cappy's asleep. Every other interaction will disappear, and you have to awaken the capybara to resume the normal events.
• Finally, you can clean up Cappy's sh*t with the broom. This corresponds to the hygiene level - 10 sh*ts on screen equals death, so don't let them pile up!

Remember, once you're holding the item, long-click the capybara (or the poop) with it until it disappears. To cancel, right-click.

Credits

License

SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT

Copyright (c) 2025 capta1nt0ad, mrpiggy105, and pineappl-e. All rights reserved.

This software and its accompanying materials (collectively, the "Software") are the proprietary property of capta1nt0ad, mrpiggy105, and pineappl-e, and are protected by applicable copyright laws and international treaties.

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1. GRANT
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