A scriptable desktop screenmate written in Qt (for graphics) and SFML (for sound). Boris will keep you company while you work. He has a bit of a prankster personality and needs to be cared for in order to stay alive. Move your mouse over him to check on his health stats.
- All behaviours are fully scriptable using BorisScript
- Supports weather visualization using the OpenWeatherMap API
- Supports RSS feed speech bubbles using custom RSS feeds
- Programming: Lars Muldjord
- Graphics: Lars Muldjord
- Sound: Lars Muldjord
A video demonstrating Boris can be found here.
Boris was programmed in C++ using the Qt framework for graphics and the SFML library for sound. Boris requires Qt 5.10 or later.
Bug reports, suggestions and / or comments can be emailed to me at: muldjordlars@gmail.com.
Copyright 2021 Lars Muldjord. This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Be sure to read the license in COPYING.TXT or check out the web page http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html.
Boris requires Qt 5.10 or later. Install all prerequisites with the following commands:
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install build-essential qt5-default qtmultimedia5-dev libsfml-dev
$ qmake
$ make -j8
$ ./Boris
- Critical need behaviours added to the queue chosen by Boris himself also gives out coins
- Spawned items seemingly spawn outside desktop more often than they should
- Make wind behaviours that are appended before or after weather reaction behaviour when weather is shown
- Add a 'usec' that points towards any direction the arrow keys are currently pressed
- Spawn a puddle when '_too_late' happens
- Add Boris 'memory'. If he uses an item that causes him trouble (lowers his health), he should learn to avoid it
- Make a 'bowling' behaviour with a 'bowlingball' item and spawned 'pin' items (which might need syncronization as well?)
- Make it so Boris only interacts with items he is interested in (those that match his current needs)
- Make a 'candycane' item for Boris to eat. It should be 'energy' category. He will get a significant energy boost and get very hyper
- Added 'anxiety' stat which causes Boris to flee the mouse cursor if he has been tossed around too much
- Added 'debug' textedit to right-click menu when 'idkfa' is enabled
- Fixed legs on coffee reading and steak eating
- Added 'mazegame'
- Reversed coin concept. You now buy items instead of behaviours
- About text adjusted to reflect changes in coin system
- Boris will now kick the football
- Items are now linked to the Boris that interacts with it, allowing for interesting synchronized animations ** Boris 'hyper' is applied to the item when an interaction occurs to ensure sync between animations ** It is possible to set several reaction behaviours each containing x and y coordinates for moving the item into position before initiating the interaction. Each reaction also contains a label that tells the item where to 'goto' inside the item frames when the interaction is initiated ** If only a reaction behaviour file is defined the item will simply be destroyed when the interaction initiates
- Items now have physics and can be thrown using Boris script by using 'throw' or by manipulating variables 'xvel' and 'yvel'
- Items now have 'weight' and 'bounce' variables
- Added 'tennisball' item
- Changed visual stat layout to make it less confusing
- Added 'banana' item
- Fixed mouse scriptVars
- Various bugfixes
- Improved the graphics for a number of behaviours
- A LOT of code refactoring and optimizations
- Reworked chatter / speech bubble class
- Boris will now think about how he feels when stats are down
- Added 'script_output' variable to config.ini to allow disabling script output in terminal
- Replaced deprecated qrand with QRandomGenerator (which unfortunately has the side-effect of now requiring Qt 5.10)
- Added '_thought' chatter type
- Added 'Dance' idle behaviour
- Gave Boris a bed to sleep in
- Improved / reworked '_fun' behaviour used when fun stat is low
- Improved / reworked '_social' behaviour used when social stat is low
- Added 'say' BorisScript command
- Added 'think' BorisScript command
- All speech bubbles are now in scripts instead of being hardcoded
- RSS feed functionality is now imlemented through BorisScript instead of being hardcoded
- Added 'Tell me the news' Social behaviour which will show rss feed output
- Added 'What are you thinking?' Social behaviour which shows a more philosophical side of Boris
- Added conditional speech bubbles to several behaviours (For instance: Boris now keeps score when using the hula hoop)
- Added 'How are you?" Social behaviour which will assess Boris' stats and give a response in a speech bubble
- Added a few missing wall hit sounds to 'Pong' game
- Improved BorisScript arithmetic expressions considerably, now using 'tinyexpr.c' by Lewis Van Winkle
- Added user item spawning using the tray icon menu
- Added item interactions using the BorisScript 'reaction' header option
- Added 'draw sprite' BorisScript command that uses sprites from 'data/sprites'
- Added random item spawn interval to about box
- Now always runs code from 'define init' before first frame is shown from a behaviour
- Added 'Coins' that can be spend on unlocking behaviours (no real money involved, it's just to add a sense of progression)
- Added 'queued' script variable that tells how many behaviours are currently queued
- Moved all '_flee' behaviours into a single behaviour that checks 'msec' variable to determine direction
- Moved all '_sad' behaviours into a single behaviour that checks 'fsec' variable to determine direction
- Moved all '_wave' behaviours into a single behaviour that checks 'fsec' and 'msec' variables to determine direction
- Reversed hunger and toilet stats visually to avoid confusion in connection with behaviours which check or manipulate those stats
- Boris now sometimes farts in his sleep, a very important feature
- Boris is now fully scriptable allowing for random outcomes of behaviours
- Behaviours now allows comments inside frame area in .dat files
- Boris now gets hyper when drinking coffee
- Boris now sometimes uses his umbrella when falling
- Boris will now bounce when hitting the ground at high velocity
- High winds (> 10 m/s) now moves Boris when showing weather
- Boris now moves to opposite side when reaching horizontal borders
- Added idkfa "secret" menu
- Removed "time_factor" config as it is now based on hyper stat instead
- Added wind data to tray menu
- Boris will now get sad when encountering a deceased friend
- Added dynamic shadow based on the current Boris sprite size and location
- Switched to SFML for sound
- Added slight pitch randomness to all sounds
- All sounds are now panned in stereo depending on Boris' location
- Improved many existing behaviours
- Added scripting to many existing behaviours for more interesting outcomes
- Added a bunch of new dynamic behaviours
- Added drawing routines to scripting language
- Added scoping to 'if' sentences in scripting language
- Boris is now ticklish (scroll mouse wheel on him)
- Boris now less likely to pick a "social" behav when moving mouse over him
- Refactored speech bubble class
- Added tray icon behaviour menu that allows user to queue a behaviour for all Boris instances at once
- Added items that can be spawned from boris scripts. The items are even scriptable themselves and can spawn new items
- Added 'allowFlip' flag to behaviours giving those a 50% of being flipped horizontally
- Added 'casual_standing_looking' behaviour
- Added 'casual_standing_hatpull' behaviour
- Added 'casual_standing_tassel' behaviour
- Updated directional walk behaviours
- Fixed somewhat glitchy stat flasher
- Balanced a lot of behaviours and main stat deltas
- Added config combobox for stat display behaviour
- Added RSS feed support
- Added wind support. Boris will now be blown around the desktop in strong winds.
- Made it so Boris much more often just relaxes or walks around.
- Boris now has a chance of, erm, having an accident if 'toilet' reaches 0.
- Boris can now go to the toilet.
- Boris now sometimes spins the yoyo.
- Boris can now wash his hands.
- Refactored a bunch of data type code. Still shitty, but better than before.
- Fixed a nasty sound bug that made Pulseaudio crash when exiting Boris under Linux.
- Fixed looping animation bug when showing weather.
- Code updated with Qt5 style signal/slots.
- Added icons for 'teleport' and 'earthquake' in tray menu.
- Added complain behaviour, and added sound to all chatter behaviours.
- Added speech bubbles. Edit the text in data/chatter.dat. Read CHATTER.md for more info.
- Limited the weather api call to once every hour. Added OpenWeatherMap API key lineedit to config.
- Limited the weather api call to once every 30 minutes. Weather now shown every 30th behaviour change instead.
- Added animated weather using the OpenWeatherMap API (http://www.openweathermap.org)
- Added health stat, deacreses when thrown. Don't throw him too much...
- Chooses "social" behaviour if fun stat is high enough and the mouse comes close
- Moved AI back into Boris class, it was too ugly the other way
- All stats are now handled inside Stats class
- Boris walks a bit more than before
- Moved AI behaviour to own function
- Added hygiene stat
- Added shower behaviour and "complain" behaviour for when hygiene is low
- Boris now greets other Borises
- Added teleport behaviour (but no sound on it yet)
- Stat changes are now applied over a period of time instead of instantly
- Bug fixes
- Added independece slider to adjust how much attention Boris needs
- Added guitar shredding behaviour
- First public release on Github
- Now categorizes behaviours
- Stat window is now placed below Boris when he's at the top of the screen
- Balancing and bug fixes
- Boris now has vitality stats and needs to be looked after
- He might also die... So please take good care of him
- Added earthquake menu item
- Added simple physics, allowing Boris to be thrown around
- Added "secret" Lemmy mode (R.I.P)
- Graphics optimized, now uses QGraphicsView instead of QLabel
- Added volume slider.
- Added Boris outfits that change with the seasons (winter, spring, summer, autumn, christmas).
- Less shitty code.
- Added sound.
- Added new behaviours.
- Boris now flees from the mouse cursor.
- The active Boris can be controlled using the cursor keys.
- First public release.
- LOTS of fixes and additions. Still shitty code, but whatever, it works.
- Internal test release
With some graphics drivers / vendors, Boris might eat up a lot of cpu time. The cause of this is out of my hands, since it has to do with how the driver and Qt makes the window borderless and the background translucent. This has only been observed with an onboard Intel display device on Windows. Linux doesn't seem to have this problem. If you have a lot of tearing in the graphics while moving Boris around on the desktop, you too have this problem.
Any issues and / or comments concerning Boris can be emailed to me at muldjordlars@gmail.com