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Anim-8 ~ Picotron Edition

Thu, 20 Feb 2025 05:25:24 UTC

Anim-8 Comes to Picotron

Ever wish you could see your sprites animate while you're drawing them?
Anim-8 (pe) launches inside Picotron's current workspace and shows sprites from /ram/cart/gfx

1. Anim-8 (pe) must be run unsandboxed to access the sprites in /ram/cart/gfx/0.gfx
- Right click Anim-8 (pe) cart > About
> Uncheck [x] Sandboxed

2. Press CTRL-S to save your gfx and see the changes in Anim-8 (pe)

"May this tool help bring your creations to life 🙇‍♂️" -Wash

Change log

v0.2 (2025-02-23)
- Change cart now launches into current workspace
(Launch from tooltray)
- Fixed pcur_r being saved in settings.pod
- Added checks for if it's sandboxed and displays
an error message
- Added ReadMe.txt
- Added ChangeLog.txt
- Added new setting to change *.gfx file
feature recommended by Garrett(@the_garrett
- Added full 32 color palette is changable now

Controls

WASD Q&E

W&S moves up and down the list of settings
A&D moves left and right to change settings
Q&E Frame settings uses this to change the
first frame

Functions

Anim-8 (pe) currently supports the following functions.

Palette Shift (Shows when focused)

Select a color from the swatch, then assign it a new index. Great for seeing how a sprite will render when using pal().

Background

Change this to see how your sprites read on different background colors.

Outline

Test your sprite's looks with a dynamically added outline.

Size

Preview your images from 4x - 0.25x. Useful for the largest or smallest sprites.

Speed

Speed up, slow down, pause, or push to the maximum 60fps.

Frame Selection

Sprites in a row and on the same spritesheet tab can be animated. Move the blue and orange cursors to select the first and last frame respectively.

Q/E to move the start frame
A/D to move the last frame

(Test it out in the browser using some default sprites that are included)

Anim-8 (pe)

by washburnello

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Anim-8

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 15:56:12 UTC

Final Release

Anim-8 is a very basic sprite animator meant for making an amination real quick.
Great for beginners, just learning or helping someone real quick online!

How to use

Draw sprites
Run the cart
Watch it animate!

anim_8

by washburnello

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Instructions

Palette

Choose a color from the palette, then change it to any color (Even secret ones!)
Palette changes stay in the editor so you can continue to use them when drawing.

Background

Test your sprites on a background color or a map

Outline

Add a colored outline to make your sprites stand out

Width & Height

Anim-8 has full large sprite support (up to 4x4)

Size Preview

Increase the size of your sprites. Useful for sharing gifs of smaller sprites.

Speed

5 different animation speeds plus pause.

Spritesheet Tabs

Switch spritesheet tabs with < & > then shange the First and Last animation frame with O/X and </> respectivley.

(Beginner Tip: Press ctrl-8 to start recording a gif, then ctrl-9 to end)

Hog Runner

Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:04:09 UTC

Hog Runner

WIP: Endless Runner Test with some cusom Sonic sprites

hog_runner

by washburnello

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Poochie Survivors

Sat, 30 Mar 2024 04:21:16 UTC

Poochie Survivors!

Can you survive to 11:00 minutes in the new 'Help me Balance' update?

4 new Poochies
2 new weapons
2 new items
Old weapons have been buffed (maybe too much?)
Fetch Stick now targets enemies
New results screen
Stuff to do at home
Make the clock faster
Faster performance
Bangin' music
1 secret character
Take a snooze
Bark for fun!

poochie_survivors

by washburnello

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I'd love some feedback on how easy or difficult you think it is. Balancing the attack powers and enemies has been quite the challenge. <3

Old Updates

- Wash's Game Jelly Submission -

I just finished my very first game jam where I did the coding. This is also my very first complete game!
It took me two weeks to finish.

The balancing didn't get finished so it's a little on the hard side but I'd like to follos with game dev experiment with a bug fix experiment as well.

How it's going.

How it started.

Poochie Survivors - 2024 Game Jelly

Mon, 11 Mar 2024 20:37:03 UTC

Wash's Game - 2024 Game Jelly

I'm participating in the 2024 Game Jelly and needed a place to stash my project so folks can play it.

poochie_survivors

by washburnello

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v0.4 - Final Day!

We're all done! This was a lot of fun to make and I'm super proud of how it came out.
I will say, I didn't get to balance it much so it's currently very hard, but I plan to do some bug fixes so make sure to post about them here. :)

v0.3 - Day 6

There is now a core game loop though it isn't very flashy at this point and needs more variety.

Added lots of sprites for future enemies and attacks
Map now moves!
Wag attack fades out
Added sfx for damage, enemies, and picking up bones
Pick up bones for EXP!
Added EXP and LV system
- Level ups refill health
- Level ups decrease time between wag attacks
- In the future they will give the option for different weapons
Added sprites for another dog (co-op?)

v0.1 - Day 1

Boy, figuring out how to get the enemies to follow you was hard, but it works now!

Changed BG to black
Cleaned up sprites to show better on black BG
Added tail wag attack (collision is buggy)
Added cats as placeholder enemies
Cats can be tail wagged at
Cats follow you (so hard to figure out!)
Barking is still just for funzies

v0.0 - Midnight Start

Put in two solid hours tonight and got a lot accomplished. The current idea is to make a vampire survivors style game.

Got my basic project set up
Plugged in my game intro
Hooked up my dog sprites
Got movement working and a basic animation system in place
Added "press O to bark" for funzies

Jebediah Peppermint - The Gun Wizard

Thu, 04 Jan 2024 21:58:57 UTC

Jebediah Peppermint - The Gun Wizard

~WORK IN PROGRESS~

Hi I'm Wash, 👋

I'm making small games based on every player character in the actual play D&D podcast, The Winged Badger Tavern that I play in.

In this game you play as my first character, Jebediah Peppermint, the molefolk gun-wizard who spits fire and fires spit. You'll fly through the sky atop your trusty blunderbuss 'Big Boy' and shoot down the evil forces of The Brightworld Company.

Watch live Monday's at 8:00pm EST

jeb_gunwizard

by washburnello

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The gameplay is based on Lazy Dev's Academy shmup tutorial

Shoot baddies to fill your ammo. Use your ammo to fire BIG BULLETS and get a high score!

O - Shoot Bullets
X - Change Weapon

Big Bullets take shells. Regain shells by killing blue enemies.

Shooting Temp Baddies

New Weapon: Lightning Bolt!

FP-62's Burrito Stand

Mon, 18 Dec 2023 20:55:28 UTC

~WORK IN PROGRESS~

FP-62's Burrito Stand

Hi I'm Wash 👋

This is my first attempt to make a game. It's based on the actual play D&D podcast The Winged Badger Tavern that I play in.
I love my characters so much that I decided I needed to make games featuring each of them.

In this game you play as fan favorite, newly sentient robot looking for a life, FP-62 as he mans the Four Guys Adventures & Vibes Magical Bean Burrito stand! Serve burritos to your customers but watch out for 'The Dead Eyes' gang trying to steal from your stock.

Watch live Monday's at 8:00pm EST

fp_62

by washburnello

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Changes

v0.41
Adding my changes now that the holiday is over and I'm back to my full-time job.

Started work on gameplay music
Added win/lose state and screen
Placeholder gameplay

v0.4
I'm still undecided on game mechanics so I've been tinkering until something sticks.

Rebuilt scene transition system
Added placeholder how-to screen
Crunched down some tokens in the splash screen
Updated animation system
Added some tool functions like print to center of screen and sprite outlines

v0.1
This is my first attempt at making a game so feedback is very much welcome.

Splash screen is done
Main Menu is done
Basic 'how to' screen is done
Scene transitions are pretty solid
Basic player movement is mostly done
Missing core gameplay loop and mechanics
Music and sfx for the menu is done
Gameplay music is missing

Thanks for taking the time to play my game :)