Blobagatchi Update Jun 17th

There was one day where I felt defeated and I almost gave up, I wrote down all of the challenges I was facing with this project and went to sleep. Animations were slow, glitches abound, I was dazed and confused by all the different conversion tools that ran in command prompt, and limitations in the hardware of my little ESP32 demanded different approaches. Thankfully, the Internet is full of tutorials and information abounds if you can manage to find it, and now I feel like I'm beginning to hit my stride with this thing.

Should I be working on this? No, probably not. Heck, I haven't even finished the blob pet on onio.cafe. But making my own hardware virtual pet was the vision a year or two ago, and now I'm setting out on this quest. The lil guy is now interactive. You can feed him, clean him, give him medication, and force him to use the toilet.

The blue button cycles through different "stat" screens - health counter, hunger counter, poop counter. The red button is the "action button", which allows the player to choose certain actions that affect their pet.

Here's the little blob eating. Currently you can feed him as much as you'd like. "Hunger" is made up of 6 points, each point being half an apple. At 5 or above, hearts will regenerate.

Here you see the health regenerate. The blob's mood changes depending on how "healthy" it is. Notice there are buttons on the left side of the screen. The blue button moves through those buttons and the red button selects them.

Of course, every time you eat, you produce a little bit of waste (your pet's bowels can hold up to "9" poo points). When his bowel is full, he becomes bloated, unable to eat any more, and if he isn't taken to the bathroom within 30 seconds, he "stinks" himself XD

Which means... he needs to be cleaned. If the blob is dirty and stinky, you can give him a shower. Feeding him while he is stinky introduces a 25% chance of the blob getting sick.

All of that can be avoided if you would just let your pet use the restroom!

Kuroi, you've been really interested in seeing my progess, so this is where I'm at. I just ordered an electronics soldering kit + a AA battery shield so I can make this a mobile device that runs off batteries! There's a lot further to go but I think it's looking promising! It's fun working within the constraints of 4mb of storage, 520kb of ram, and a 240mhz processor.

-Onio