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Nice job. As someone who spends an inordinate amount of time on pixel art, I immediately noticed that something was off on the logo [1]. When I brought the PNG

Nice job. As someone who spends an inordinate amount of time on pixel art, I immediately noticed that something was off on the logo [1]. When I brought the PNG down, it looks like when you were trying to clean the asset (probably a background removal tool that was too aggressive), you accidentally made part of the hull alpha-transparent. Also, consider adjusting the sprite assets for the frigate and cruiser. Right now they look very similar, which could be frustrating if a player wanted to do a quick visual scan and identify which ships are which. [1] - https://navalstrike.app/assets/naval-strike-logo-xIcrDNQX.png https://navalstrike.app/assets/naval-strike-logo-xIcrDNQX.pn...

pinchydev 6mo ago
Thank you - you're right, it must have been when I removed the background surrounding the logo, I did it on a colour not the area and missed that the hull was the same shade. I'll fix that :) I'll play with cruiser sprite too, if you're curious this is how I save them: frigate: [ "................", "................", "................", "...kkkkkkkk.....", "..kHHHHHHHHkk...", ".kHgGGGGGGGgDkk.", "kHHgwGttGttwgDkk", "kHHgGGGppGGttgDk", "kHHgGGGppGGttgDk", "kHHgwGttGttwgDkk", ".kHgGGGGGGGgDkk.", "..kHHHHHHHHkk...", "...kkkkkkkk.....", "................", "................", "................", ],
- vunderba 6mo ago
  Nice~ I used to do something similar back when I made little games in BASIC using blocks of sequential DATA keywords to visually represent on/off pixels for the various sprites.
  - pinchydev 6mo ago
    that brings back painful memories of typing lines and lines of DATA keywords from library books into GW BASIC..... I'm an embedded engineer, so it's how I would encode a sprite for displaying an LCD character, it seemed natural to do it this way! ETA: I've fixed the image transparency and the frigate sprite is less fat, thanks!
    - vunderba 6mo ago
      Very cool. It’s been a while, but years ago I remember using a nice little tool that somebody had made that let you export BMP pictures to an array you could drop into an Arduino C program for displaying on an RGB LED matrix.

pinchydev 6mo ago

Thank you - you're right, it must have been when I removed the background surrounding the logo, I did it on a colour not the area and missed that the hull was the same shade. I'll fix that :) I'll play with cruiser sprite too, if you're curious this is how I save them: frigate: [ "................", "................", "................", "...kkkkkkkk.....", "..kHHHHHHHHkk...", ".kHgGGGGGGGgDkk.", "kHHgwGttGttwgDkk", "kHHgGGGppGGttgDk", "kHHgGGGppGGttgDk", "kHHgwGttGttwgDkk", ".kHgGGGGGGGgDkk.", "..kHHHHHHHHkk...", "...kkkkkkkk.....", "................", "................", "................", ],

vunderba 6mo ago
Nice~ I used to do something similar back when I made little games in BASIC using blocks of sequential DATA keywords to visually represent on/off pixels for the various sprites.
- pinchydev 6mo ago
  that brings back painful memories of typing lines and lines of DATA keywords from library books into GW BASIC..... I'm an embedded engineer, so it's how I would encode a sprite for displaying an LCD character, it seemed natural to do it this way! ETA: I've fixed the image transparency and the frigate sprite is less fat, thanks!
  - vunderba 6mo ago
    Very cool. It’s been a while, but years ago I remember using a nice little tool that somebody had made that let you export BMP pictures to an array you could drop into an Arduino C program for displaying on an RGB LED matrix.