v0.4.0

A pixel-art desktop companion that lives on your screen.

What is new in 0.4.0

Added

• Ambient world: a persistent layer at the bottom of the screen that runs independently from the pet
• Deer (Calciumtrice sprites, recolored with a custom warm palette) that wander, graze, sleep at night, and flee from the mouse
• Day/night cycle with time-of-day tinting baked into the ground palette; spawn rate, population cap, and behaviors shift across dawn/day/dusk/night
• Per-instance personality on spawned creatures (speed, graze bias, flight radius, flee cooldown)
• Hand-drawn pixel terrain: layered dirt, soil edge, grass blades, pebbles, occasional flowers
• Credits tab (replaces the old footer modal), with external links opening via NSWorkspace
• Events section in the control panel, separate from Quick Actions, with action category sections

Changed

• Control panel reorganized into Pet / Ambient / General sidebar groups
• Creatures can be enabled/disabled per ID; disabling culls live instances, re-enabling triggers a fresh spawn within ~1s
• Actions page UX polish