Fun & Games - Tigergotchi

Description: Tigergotchi is a virtual dashboard tiger, which is in need for some water, food and love. When you provide your tiger with enough of those ingredients, he will be happy and last a long time on your dashboard.
Author: mekentosj
Version: 1.0
Uploaded on: August 19th 2005 at 8:02 AM
Rating: (4.07 stars)   [Show Detailed Ratings]
Downloads: 5628
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What a stupid widget...

Posted by: faisrisette on Aug 19, 05 (12:16 PM) for version 1.0 (current version)   View Detailed Rating

THAT IS CO COOL. Ignore the person who has no widget making ability anyway, and doesn't understand the concept of being grateful to people who make things for free.

Posted by: Garcon on Aug 19, 05 (3:11 PM) for version 1.0 (current version)   View Detailed Rating

Very cute smiley.

Posted by: sophie81de on Aug 19, 05 (5:37 PM) for version 1.0 (current version)   View Detailed Rating

Hmm... a retro-like Tamagottchi widget might be good too. I personally have no use for these though.

I'm only commenting because I found it difficult to understand exactly how to "play". I think you have to keep the colored rings as full as possible, but it doesn't seem like one can over do it, nor do different combinations yield anything interesting.... Essentially, isn't this just a timer to see how long it has been since visiting the Dash and feeding/watering/loving the tiger? Not much fun, I would think, because one can just click umpteen times on all the buttons all the time and just see a happy tiger. And I don't personally advocate the kind of fun one gets by watching it starve, etc. Not with tigers. Only with rhinos, cows, or salt-water fish.

Looks nice, and works, but the level of simplicity makes it something other than what I expected with a name like "tigergotchi".

Posted by: BagOfHammers on Aug 19, 05 (6:05 PM) for version 1.0 (current version)  

Love it! My tiger is happy, but a little overfed smiley Thanks very much!

Posted by: mrskipperdoo on Aug 19, 05 (6:06 PM) for version 1.0 (current version)   View Detailed Rating

Love it! My tiger is happy, but a little overfed smiley Thanks very much!

Posted by: mrskipperdoo on Aug 19, 05 (6:06 PM) for version 1.0 (current version)   View Detailed Rating

its actually quite a nice idea. I like how he gets fat when you feed him. the sounds are nice as well.

for a first version, its quite well done. just a fun little thing to have in your dashboard and check up on when you use some widgets.

i like the Death picture. thats neat.

Posted by: blinkmetoys on Aug 19, 05 (6:08 PM) for version 1.0 (current version)   View Detailed Rating

It's GREAT!!!!!!1 tx alot for making this widget
!!!

Posted by: Radruler on Aug 19, 05 (6:48 PM) for version 1.0 (current version)   View Detailed Rating

Pretty cool.

It would be nice if the buttons (water, feed, love) would disappear (or something) to let you know when you have hit the maximum.

Also, it could be cool if there were a variety of animals (I would like an alien of some sort, like the Tamagottchi.)

Lots of fun!

Posted by: EricNau on Aug 20, 05 (5:30 AM) for version 1.0 (current version)   View Detailed Rating

Under the hood it appears clever and elegant, and is commented in a way that could be helpful to other developers. Thank you mekentosj for this contribution.

Posted by: cerberus on Aug 20, 05 (8:45 AM) for version 1.0 (current version)  

Woa! My computer has been running very hot all day, so I opened up my Activity Moniter ans sure enough my CPU was running at 100%, which is odd because I don't have any applications open. I looked, and this widget was using 75-90% of my processor (I have a G5 iMac and it takes a lot to use that much.)
I like this widget but I can't use it if it takes this much up.

Posted by: EricNau on Aug 20, 05 (9:56 AM) for version 1.0 (current version)  

I love the idea of this widget, but my dead tiger was using 70% of my processor. Widgets should use little or no processor time at all when the dashboard is hidden. This is especially important on a laptop. I wondered why my battery life was being cut in half.

Posted by: glensanford on Aug 21, 05 (7:01 PM) for version 1.0 (current version)   View Detailed Rating

Mine is always sad. It kinda sux.

Posted by: stubbyperson77 on Aug 24, 05 (8:44 PM) for version 1.0 (current version)   View Detailed Rating

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