vladelaina/BongoCat

🩷 💘C × SDL3 × OpenGL — Three Mysterious Forces, United as One! Bong~ Bongocat!!!Don't be shy, Join Here🧸: https://discord.gg/vf8jqnattk

AppsC#bongo-cat#bongocat#c#opengl#pet-project

2.4 Peaking Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 19, 2026.

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About the project

Cross-platform desktop pet app featuring an animated BongoCat that reacts to keyboard and mouse input. Written in C with SDL3 and OpenGL, it supports Live2D models and runs as a desktop companion.

Useful for

Run on your desktop so the cat reacts to typing and clicks
Build from source on Linux/macOS/Windows with CMake and SDL3
Plug in custom Live2D models via the Cubism SDK

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

67 stars so far today, about 86 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 11 per day, so that's 8.1× as much.
The repository is 28 days old and already has 909 stars.
Top new repositories this month: #100.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 909
Stars in a day: 86
Forks: 26
Issues and pull requests: 56
Watchers: 1
Language: C
License: AGPL-3.0
Latest release: v1.10.0 · September 19, 2026
Created: August 22, 2026
Last push: September 19, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 19, 2026Top new repositories this month: #100

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