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It's my very greatest pleasure to announce the project I've been working on the past year: Tascots! The Make-Your-Own Desktop Pet Game! Say hello to our little queen, Button the Mouse.

this is eXTREMELY RELEVANT TO MY INTERESTS 👀👀👀 is it going to work like ssp/shimeji where you have the base program and download tascots other people make to run in the program? will it be easy to distribute tascots to others? :O

Yep! You keep the client open and load, make, and save Tascots via the editors. Sharing is as easy as dropping the singular .tascot file in the appropriate folder! No zips or folders full of pngs to juggle 👍👍

haha I still have so many folders and zip files in my shimeji collection, all the readmes i had to write! I'm PSYCHED to have a successor to shimeji with all this new stuff that won't freak out about java all the time! lol Can you add your own animations and stuff along with standard idles etc? :o

Yep! There are about a dozen "standard" states (idle, walk, jump, grabbed, thrown, etc etc) and the option to add your own custom ones! All of it happens in the TascotMaker editor, and I've done my best to make it as user-friendly as possible :)

Yesss perfect, it'd be easy to port my shimejis in via their image files, and hopefully easy enough to add their custom animations! I'm curious about the object interactions too :O And the inter-tascot ones! I saw they can kick each other lol but could they do other things like hug? :o