ideas for weird digital pets: a rock you polish/"feed" certain things and it turns into a gem OR a blank doll you collect pieces for and can customize
for the rock/gems I could use photo assets (would need to find free resources) and make the paper doll and pieces and take photos of those for assets (would need to make a lightbox.)
BUT that is also adding A LOT of work that isn't learning programming
rule of cool might rule but it needs to exist to become cool later on down the line, I need to remember this