Hi,
welcome to the second in a series of articles where I talk about some noteworthy technical problems I encountered during the development of my video game Syzygy. In this part, we are going to address how sprites are rendered and some interesting consequences that arise from the method used.
Remember that our initial goal was to have every element in the game reflect the change in shape and we put quite some effort into animating the game map. A really simple idea comes to mind: maps are made by square tiles and sprites are made by square pixels; therefore, ...
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