Amarillo's Desktop Pets

Here's the dedicated post for Desktop Pets. From now on, I'll post new versions of the game in here instead of itch.

Reminder that you can find my official VRMs in this collection.

Changelog

• October 26 2025

  • Added experimental support for all VRM facial expressions

    • Neutral when idling

    • Joy when head patting

    • Fun when walking

    • Angry when grabbed

    • Sorrow when ragdolled

  • Tweaked the Character Creator's camera settings

  • Fixed some internal bugs regarding toggleable clothing items that modify feet rotation (high heels)

  • Added support for texture wrapping modes for VRM characters made with my VRM Creation Kit

  • Known issues:

    • Characters being head pat in the character creator will ragdoll and fall out of the world

• October 25 2025

  • VRM characters now use their Angry facial expression when grabbed

    • Headpats are currently the only way to trigger their Joy expression

  • Reworked the game scale setting to let you scale more freely

  • Added an aPhone size setting as well

  • Added a toggle for the procedural ragdoll animations in Experimental Settings

  • Improved the character spawning sequence by ensuring the spawn points are always outside the screen.

    • This should fix the issue making characters initially spawn with a broken pose when directly colliding with a window at the time they spawn

• October 24 2025

  • Added procedural physics-based animations for Ragdolls

    • I might make this a toggleable experimental setting in the future. For now it's always on.

  • I made ragdolls less stiff when not triggered by the player

  • I made some changes to the Pin tool

    • It now behaves similar to the Grab tool

• October 23 2025

  • Added a Character Behavior window to the Character Manager

    • Lets you toggle between two (for now) behaviors: Wander and Stay-in-place

      • Wander is the default Behavior

      • Stay-in-place makes characters not move around anymore

        • They will still look at your mouse cursor, unless you stop moving it

  • Added a new Experimental Setting "Window Collision"

    • It creates colliders for most windows, making characters collide with them without using the Window Grabber Tool

    • It takes into account window order and fullscreen/maximized state of windows to make it as intuitive as possible

  • Added "head pat" detecting capabilities

    • Moving the mouse cursor fast over a character's head will trigger a head pat

    • Head pats only make the character use their VRM "Joy" facial expression

    • I might add a bit more flare in the future

  • Known issues:

    • The first time a VRM character spawns, it might come out with a broken arm pose if there is a window colliding with its starting location (which is the bottom middle of the screen)

• October 19 2025 - 2

  • I made a mistake in the previous version, where you weren't able to access the previous Patreon characters. That's been fixed.

• October 19 2025

  • Fixed a couple issues with the character's pathfinding

    • Characters not properly stopping and looking at the camera

    • Characters stopping before reaching their actual destination when it's too crowded

  • Fixed an issue with the Character Manager app not properly updating character profile pictures

• October 18 2025

  • This first version has many new features compared to the latest one on itch

  • Better aPhone dialogs

    • The aPhone can now show you a loading dialog and a confirmation dialog

  • New shaders

    • I made new and better shaders for the Character Creator characters and the VRM models with material metadata

      • Regular VRM models can optionally use my shaders, but you have to enable that option in the Settings app.

  • A more visually pleasing grabbing

    • Characters won't "contort" when being grabbed

  • New pathfinding solution

    • Still needs some adjustments but I completely changed how characters move

  • Added a nudity censor in preparation for Steam Early Access

    • You can disable this in Settings > Gameplay

    • The Steam version will require a DLC to unlock. I did this to comply with what seems to be the new requirements for Early Access

      • As a bonus, Germany might be able to have access to the game