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Same here. And it's even more intriguing for me that it seems to match a lot of my own current game design aesthetics (namely the idea of simple, very low pixel

Same here. And it's even more intriguing for me that it seems to match a lot of my own current game design aesthetics (namely the idea of simple, very low pixel graphics but with high-end light and particle effects). What's more, when browsing for the simplest (yet powerful) sprite editor for my own use, I found Pixen to be the best available option but still I dreamed of a vi-like pixel pusher (I was thinking in terms of having buffers with, say, small reusable sprites which then I could compound to make variations and animations, all accessible through a CtrlP inspired browser.)

jeapostrophe 13y ago
This is the author. I agree very much with both of you. I assemble all the tiles into texture atlases (and earlier post discusses the technique) and then use a fairly simple shader to render. If you look in the gb/graphics directory [1], then you can see the GLSL code. It was originally coded for OpenGL 3.3 with geometry shaders but I switched to OpenGL 3.00 as a stepping stone to ES 2. The whole model is based on the concept of "SNES Unbound": I want to have effectively infinite numbers of sprites with many layers and any Mode 7 effects with arbitrary scaling and rotations. This is a very small level of expectation of a modern GPU, so I can get about 1,000 FPS on my laptop with millions of sprites, because I only use a single OpenGL draw call per layer. Anyways, I'd be happy to comment or chat more with you. Maybe I should post some screenshots of the editor. Jay 1. https://github.com/get-bonus/get-bonus/tree/master/gb/graphics https://github.com/get-bonus/get-bonus/tree/master/gb/graphi...