Comment by balamatom

4 days ago

Nice, just the other day I coded up some quick 2d shooter demo and realized I have no idea how to draw interesting sprites for it. What you're doing here with drawing the generated vector onto different sizes of grid is brilliant. A sort of structured pulsation. Same simple technique can be used for both "breathing" animation of a critter and for animating it into bigger, badder forms. Bravo.

At this point (actually before even writing the comment) If your blog had a RSS feed I'd have subscribed to it... but (at least according to my RSS plugin) it doesn't, so I fear I will miss out on your next inspiring writeups. Consider adding one, if you feel like it :-)

https://muffinman.io/invaders/#/size:15/main-seed:began-ever... is a favorite so far

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stanko  3 days ago

Thank you! You can also think of the vector shapes as a kind of skeleton. I think that is one of the reasons it works well. Moving the limbs or increasing the size creates the illusion of movement and breathing. But it works well only while the grid is smaller and can hide the underlying shapes. Once the vectors start to emerge, it breaks the illusion. You could definitely improve it to work better at larger sizes, but I think you would need to introduce more constraints, which limits the random factor of the generator.

If you end up using something similar in your game, I would love to see it!

edit: It seems that I need to make the RSS link more prominent :)