v0.85.0 — Roaming companions & screen pointing

✨ Features

• Your companion roams the desktop. Between calls, the mascot can leave its window and wander your whole screen in ghost mode, with clicks passing through. They walk along the bottom and over your windows, sit on them, hang off them, nap while you're away and peek in from the side. They also doodle, sunbathe, go fishing for icons, ride your mouse pointer, float off on balloons and swing across on webs, among dozens more. When you're back after a while, they come over with a "call me?" sign you can click. Turn it on in Mascot settings → Roaming, from the tray, or with Ctrl+Alt+R, and pick their size there. "Try one now" plays any trick on demand.
• They play with what's on your screen. With a TypeSafe key, they look at the screen every 20 seconds or so and play with what they find. They eat a link, run off with a tab or a close button, swim across a video, cross out an ad, bonk an error with a hammer, or blow something up with a rocket launcher. Whatever is on your screen goes into those screenshots, so turn "Play with what's on the screen" off before opening anything private.
• They hear your music (Windows). They dance when music plays, with a boombox, and rock out on air guitar when the bass drops. Talking in a video doesn't count as music. The sound is analysed on your computer and never sent anywhere.
• Companions point things out on your shared screen. Ask where a button is, or for the next step or the answer to a puzzle, and your companion can circle it. In the desktop app, with your whole screen shared, numbered rings appear over the screen itself for a few seconds. Everywhere, the screenshot with the rings lands in the chat. "Point things out on screen" is on by default per companion when a TypeSafe key is set.

🐛 Fixes

• Popping out mid-call keeps their outfit. A companion popped out into the mascot during a call no longer switches back to their main outfit while the chosen one is loading.

📝 Docs

• Roaming in the README. The feature table now lists roaming, in English and Japanese.

Windows has everything. On macOS and Linux they roam along the bottom of the screen, but don't climb windows or hear music.

The Windows, macOS and Linux downloads are attached by CI a few minutes after the release goes live.