It started on a random Sunday afternoon at our kitchen table. I was playing around with an M5Stack Core2, "vibe-coding" a simple pixel face that made a sound when you tapped the screen. I thought it was a fun little experiment—until I showed it to my 10-year-old son, Justus. He looked at it, then at me, and said: " Dad, you can't leave it like that. It needs a life. It needs to eat, it needs to sleep, and it definitely needs to talk to other pets. " That was the spark. We spent the rest of the afternoon together, and by Sunday evening—thanks to an intense pairing session with Claude Opus 4.7 —we had the first working prototype of what is now Pixel-Pets. The Team: Ideas vs. Execution We established a professional workflow that felt like a high-speed dev shop: Justus (Product Owner & Chief Designer): He provided the user stories and the creative vision. He designed the biological needs (hunger, sleep, mood) and the interactions.…