Byte - Desktop Pet

Im having problems running byte, it just crashes a second after attempting to run. tried exluding it from windows security but it wont work

Really good stuff! I've seen all the animations and i'm not much of a text adventure player but i plan on checking out more of the braindance later.

Also, is there anywhere we can find out what content is currently exclusive to Cindesh's substar before subscribing?

This is so fun! Following this project eagerly, I have the root password but I was curious if there's any hints for the console commands that are stated to be not listed? Or is that just a teaser for possible future functions?

Great game, really all its lacking is content. Though being new not much of an issue, but for the love of god don't tell me each item has the same spawn rate I just keep getting mail after mail after mail how many fake sites did I put my email in to get so many!?

both a very promising desktop pet, AND an introduction to an amazing artist? talk about quality! I'm eager to see where this goes!

Anything for growth lovers amongst the possibilities to be coded into this?

My question is can one make their own byte? She's super adorable and i love her very muc

Any chance you can add an option to resize the terminal? It looks about 8pt font on my machine and is hard to play because of that.

so ok i enabled cindesh mode, but nothing changed. do i have to edit the config file too ?

probably just me being dumb but I can't get the force to work, I swear I've done every combination of the command with id

i have no idea how to access the settings :(

still peak tho

This is cute game.

anyone figure another way for the transparency? i tried the one solution and it didnt work. some scenes that use two sprites are scensored, mainly the one with the upgraded mail.

I want to ask about the brain dance in the terminal , do they give unique npcs bc i got a blue version of the pet as an actor

This is a very cool program, will definitely be sure to follow the development of this.

Hiiii, I just wanted to say, if your Byte background is black try this: in settings, go to personalisation > colors and check if transparency is enabled! :) also, open the application on your desktop.

broo this is amazing, its pretty unique and fun to mess around. im excited to see updates and more content

also a few things:

it would be cool if spawn rates were just a little higher bc when sometimes i just cant get that one item, also left click to despawn items can be annoying when i forget about it.

also i had a hard time figuring out the combinations and everything, still feel like i didnt unlock everything there is.

and just one question is there any type of community like discord or something else or no?

This really made my day! ❤️ I know this is a for-fun/free product, but my thoughts are that It would be fun to maintain her corruption in some way where she starts to talk abusively (to a cruel/violent extent, changeable blacklist option?) to the user or Bit until cured with an antivirus disk (even 'damage' the 'system' cosmetically); have Bit comment on goings-on, turned on by ads, and have cute quips with Byte; Bit being interactable with actors and items (and a corruptible nuisance)... The wish list is already long. I'd love to support more interactable idle games like this. Thank you for this. =w=

So i'm trying to get all possible crafting results but a dildo hasnt spawned in 40+ minutes and i cant figure out the password because my lewd furry related vocabulary is emptier than my bank account 

surely im just crazy unlucky with the dildo spawns and it doesnt have a low spawn rate

Really nice concept here, and you already seem to have answered a lot of my questions. Sorry if it's already been suggested, but I think that there should be options for both item scale and character scale.

neat game. Does the floppy disc actually do anything by itself?

Really like this! don't know if its been recommended yet but maybe add a setting to limit the app to a single monitor, it breaks a little for me when they walk between monitors. Also it would be nice if the items would hover a little bit instead of resting on the bottom directly it looks a little odd.

Neat concept, curious to see where you'll end up taking this. I do think having this limited to simply playing static animations with a bit of slow crafting will get boring very quickly regardless of how many of them are added. It'd be cool to see some of these sorts of features:

- Direct interaction, whether through clicking specific spots on the pet or using tools on them when given the opportunity. This wouldn't need to be an entire physics simulation being implemented for it either, but I think it'd be a good way to make this a lot more interesting.

- Interactable objects that change their state. I was thinking something among the line of stockades or chains for changing poses, clothes being able to be dragged on/off directly.

- Mood/Affection/Lust parameters like having a "corruption/brainwash" system, as the current events already suggest a corruption theme

Either way I'm sure you'll make it something good. I simply enjoyed the concept enough that I felt like suggesting some concepts that I think would work really well with what is currently already available

Loving the game so far and super excited to see more. One addition that would be a nice is maybe a black outline on Bit and Byte or some kind of option to add that. Something that makes them easier to see on a white background. Its not something game ruining but it'd be a nice QOL i think. 

The game is generally good, and the design is pleasing to the eye, but the game has bugs and not the best gameplay solutions.:

The crafting is interesting, but it's made worse by the rare loss of items and the general uncertainty of how and what to get, the only thing worse than that is the fact that there are multi-stage crafting, I was shocked by the number of crafting for the green collar. I've been trying for hours to get that blue dude that everyone is writing about in the comments, I feel like a fool who didn't understand the simple truth. Tell me how to get it(((

When opening the terminal or the pause menu, black squares appear on the back of objects and characters.

The objects simply fall through the quick access curtain, so I had to zoom in on the objects in the settings so as not to suffer too much.

(I'm sorry if some of what I've written is unclear, I'm writing it through a translator)

UPDATE: FALSE POSITIVE. PLS IGNORE

DON'T RUN IT,  THERE'S A TROJAN THAT SNUCK IN WITH THE LAST UPDATE

Edit: just as a heads up, i'm not saying it was deliberate, but the devs might want to look into it.

Edit 2: or maybe one of the harmless files just tripped my antivirus

Edit 3: doing a bit more digging and it's looking more like a false positive, but so people can do more research here's the flag I got:Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha 

Edit4: So far, it's looking like it was just a false positive as I've seen a bunch of posts about people getting the same trojan warning on files they knew were clean. I'm still skeptical but, it's definitely shaping up to be a false positive.

i really think the gallery should also show you any scenes youve encountered (and also maybe a list of them all with hints like flowers+malware) 

also i may be dumb but how am i supposed to find the item ids once i ger root acses?

I quite enjoyed this game, I have an older computer so it revs a bit, but Byte is a great desktop pet! The root puzzle was challenging and enjoyable. Getting called mutt and pup by the OS (i think?) was very hot and I hope that comes back more in the next update.  Good luck and I'll see you in the next update!

how do you change outfit?

The game is good and I like it, but i'm honestly kinda crashing tf out about the password, how obtuse the people who figured it out are being, and the fact that while fiddling with the files (which the game encourages) the createdump application locked up my computer so badly that I had to fully restart it (I only realized the cause of the problem the second time it happened).

what are they key binds for this game??? every time i click on something it just disappears and nothing happens 

any chance we could get a command that makes everything bigger i cant really see so it would be rly nice.  oh and a platform command  so items don't fall to low and as others have said spawn rates could use a change

I HAD TO DATAMINE FOR THE PASSWORD, it was faster than trying to figure it out, now what if you could give Byte a strap so she pegs him?

As fun as this is, it takes ages for new stuff to appear and mess around with (it's all the same like 3 items for me, a floppy disc, token things, and mail, with a very rare new one in between which is annoying because i'd like to see everything this desktop pet can do), which, would be solved by the force spawning of items. And yet, that requires some password that quite frankly I cannot be bothered to look for myself, because from what I'm seeing it's a quote from Ozymandias that also has a word or two CHANGED in it. Which, trying to find is an unreasonably difficult task? The hint I got for it mentions changing it based on who is saying the quote but I have no clue who Fen even is (note I have since realized thats one of the developers and that I'm an idiot for not seeing that),  and nobody has outright said it either. I think the riddle is a fun gimmick on its own, but i also think it should probably give a better hint here, or should have the password in the settings in like a toggleable hidden state along with said hint, that way the people who do want the riddle can still get it, while the people who just want to mess around and see what this little pet can do don't have to search on twitter for a mere hint on what the altered quote is supposed to be.