VS Code Pets#

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

Visual Studio Marketplace Version Usage screenshot

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.

Installation screenshot

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.

Start screenshot

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

Step 1 screenshot

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.