Retro Pet

A tiny desktop companion inspired by classic virtual pets. Retro Pet is built in Rust with eframe/egui, draws its own pixel-style pet, and keeps your pet alive between app launches.

Features

• Native desktop window with a retro handheld-style interface
• Randomly generated pets with names, personalities, palettes, body shapes, eyes, and antenna variants
• Persistent state saved locally as JSON
• Food, happiness, energy, and cleanliness meters that change over time
• Simple care actions: feed, play, nap, and wash
• Responsive layout: the pet screen and buttons scale with the window

Screenshot

Getting Started

Install Rust, then clone and run:

git clone git@github.com:forjd/retro-pet-rust.git
cd retro-pet-rust
cargo run

For a quick compile check:

cargo check

Save Data

Retro Pet autosaves every few seconds and on normal app exit. On macOS, save data is stored at:

~/Library/Application Support/com.Codex.RetroPet/pet.json

Deleting that file creates a fresh random pet the next time the app starts.

Tech Stack

• Rust 2024 edition
• eframe / egui for native UI
• serde / serde_json for persistence
• directories for platform-aware save paths
• rand for pet generation

License

MIT. See LICENSE.