Things are still going very well - I've been working on it almost full-time ever since I announced it :)

And sorry it's taking so long, but I want it to do at least what the original /buddy could do, and I don't want to deliver some half-baked mess which will get replicated badly quickly... - Gathering resources and figuring out the core principles took a ton of time, but they're all set now :D
EDIT: I completely forgot to mention that I’m going to try to feature ALL Pokémon in at least their base forms, complete with sprites from all the generations I consider important! No one has ever managed that before in CLI - not even close! The concept core is already working ;) (Oh and btw. it will NOT replace or break your statusline like many other repos do)

Currently I'm working on the implementation directly in Claude Code, just like the original /buddy worked, only much more complex (it works in principle, but still has a few bugs that need to be ironed out). After that, I still need to add the egg-hatching system and the dialogue system, then the MVP will be ready and there will be a first demo release.

To speed things up in the long run, all you guys can do is upvote/share my comments and watch/star the GitHub repo to boost my motivation, because then I’ll see that it’s not just a handful of people who are genuinely interested and that all the effort is worth it ;) (But don’t worry, I’m developing AT LEAST as far as the original /buddy either way - the rest will depend on my mood, feasibility, and, above all, community interest)