VS Code Pets

An extension for VS Code that puts pets in your editor to keep you company whilst you code.

Installation

From the VS Code Marketplace

Install this extension from the VS Code marketplace.

From VS Code

With VS Code open, search for vscode-pets in the extension panel (Ctrl+Shift+X on Windows/Linux or Cmd(⌘)+Shift+X on MacOS) and click install.

Alternatively, with VS Code open, launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P on Windows/Linux or Cmd(⌘)+P on MacOS), paste the following command, and press enter.

ext install tonybaloney.vscode-pets

Getting Started

Launch VS Code Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows/Linux or Cmd(⌘)+Shift+P on MacOS, then type pets and select Pets: Start Pet Coding Session.

This will open a new sub-panel inside the Explorer panel:

From here, you can add multiple pets, give them names, change the background. Find out how in the usage section.

Credits

The cat and dog media assets for this extension were licensed from itch.io.

Marc Duiker created the Clippy, Rocky, Zappy, rubber duck, snake, cockatiel, Ferris the crab, and Mod the dotnet bot media assets.

Karen Rustad Tölva designed the original concept of Ferris the crab.

Thank you

Thanks to all the contributors to this project.