Info-dump of everything you need to know about CappyHappy, and more.
This is like our sacred text, except it's written by someone who yaps too much.
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.
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.
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 many people online seemed to also think they were cute. 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 planning to make CappyHappy Free and Open Source (the best type of software), but we had to give up on that due to financial priorities. If the project ever dies though we'll be sure to release it under GPL or MIT. Our proprietary license is quite strict, so make sure you abide to that.
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