Blob (Hackapet)

[jqiu61]

Cool blob

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[acornitum]

I appreciate you submitted this, even if it was very last minute!

That being said, I would like to see some things improved upon before this gets merged:

• Currently, pressing the down arrow doesn't seem to squish the blob. Does it work on your end / could you fix it, or make the squish look more noticeable if it is doing it?
• What if you animated the blob? I'm going to chalk up the black/white colors to be a stylistic choice, but you can still add to it! An idle animation, squish animation, even glitter animation - that would add a lot to it!
• On a similar note - what if you animated the clock in the background, or the wisps coming out the coffee?
• A food/health/play meter would be good + create a feedback loop when the player does an action! Currently, adding glitter / turning it around doesn't exactly do anything but a tiny bit of visuals.
• The glitter could probably stand to look a little better. Glitter tutorial here - look at how there are certain dots that are lighter and darker, instead of being a single color! What if you animated it to shine in different places too?

Thanks so much for submitting! If you could make these changes in <1 week (or asap), that would be amazing :D

Note: don't open a new PR, just commit changes to this current thread + send a comment when changes have been made!

[jqiu61]

So my blobs do have animations (they are .gif files renamed into .bmp files). It turns out that .bmp files don't have animations (I initially thought I converted them wrong, which caused the files to "lose" their animations).

Also, the background does have animation too 🥲.

When you press the squish button, I believe it does switch to the squish file, but I didn't realize .bmp files don't have animation in the first place (that's why I thought I broke my sprite files 😭 ).

Also if you press Down, Down, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, Down, Down, I believe it makes your blob into a cookie that gets eaten.

I will make each frame in each animation as a separate file and then cycle through them. Will make these changes soon!

[acornitum]

In order to animate something, export it as a sprite sheet from Aseprite instead of exporting a singular frame! Then, in code, you can cut up the image to be multiple frames - my example code does this if you want to take a look!

Would really appreciate it if you could get those animations back :D