Astropet

Virtual pets over the gemini protocol. A Fork of Community Garden which itself is a fork of jifunks/botany.

WIP

This project is a WIP current version is still 100% the Astrobotany code.

Getting Started

(requires python 3.7+)

# Setup a fresh virtual environment
git clone git@github.com:aaadonai/astropet.git
cd astropet
python -m virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

# Install astrobotany in "edit" mode
pip install -e .

# Launch the gemini server
python main.py

Art

Playscii

The project uses a forked version of the playscii ASCII art program to generate the .psci files:

https://github.com/michael-lazar/playscii

Botany's original art files were imported using the following settings:

palette: 240-ansi (generated using this script)
charset: dos (of which 7-bit US ASCII is a subset)

While colorizing the images, I maintained a few common colors between plants:

Color Code	Usage
0	background
80	soil
133	primary flower color
199	secondary flower color