Pixel Paint V2: A Sprite Engine

[Kully]

Motivation

I am personally working on a game engine. It would be amazing to be able to repurpose some of this project to allow myself, and other game makers, to use this engine for their personal development.

Design (in progress)

What it looks like in this Pull Request (as of Sept 12, 2024)

Copy to Clipboard Ideation - What do you get?

The vision is that when you press the Copy to Clipboard button, you will have the following:

let colorPalette = [
    0: "#000000ff",
    1: "#ff0000ff",
    ...
]
let colorsArray = [
    4, 4, 5, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3,
    4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3,
    4, 3, 4, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3,
    5, 3, 3, 4, 3, 5, 4, 4,
    3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3,
    4, 5, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3,
    3, 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3,
    5, 3, 3, 3, 4, 4, 4, 4,
];

Tasks

• [x] Use custom colors for the palette
• [x] Overlap the active color preview (like Photoshop does)
• [x] Add a Copy to Clipboard button
• [ ] Clean up the format of code you get when you press Copy to Clipboard
• [ ] Allow people to place guidelines on the canvas
  • Quartlie Lines (thick red line) / Octile Lines (thin red line)
• [ ] Allow user to make their own color palette
  • [ ] Add a color picker (other color tools could be useful too)
• [ ] Allow easy toggling between colors palettes
• [ ] Allow different canvas sizes (8x8, 16x16, 32x32 seem the most reasonable)
• [ ] Restore the old NES and GameBoy color palettes so reverse-compatible
• [ ] Add animation capabilities
  • [ ] Add a new frame
  • [ ] Delete a frame
  • [ ] Cycle between frames (assign durations to each)
  • [ ] If #35 is done, ensure copying between frames works

[Kully]

@Viet281101 @jkl3848 @aleksi100 @Luca-Ilari @R-Lovelett

CC'ing all the contributors of this project to get thoughts on this effort.

I don't want to ruin anyone's experience or break things that y'all are enjoying about this tool.

Feel free to weigh in if you have any ideas, thoughts, interests. :)

(I am curious to know if there are any game devs here that may have thoughts, especially if they use other software.)

[Viet281101]

Are you planning on making Pixel Paint mobile-friendly? I know this might be a bit tricky to adjust, but if you want I'm willing to participate if I have time.

[Kully]

Are you planning on making Pixel Paint mobile-friendly? I know this might be a bit tricky to adjust, but if you want I'm willing to participate if I have time.

@Viet281101 I was not planning on making it mobile-friendly, but I am curious to hear what you (and maybe others) were thinking and what the use case would be?

Typically I do not think that people prefer to make sprites on their phone, but I could be wrong. Is this a feature that other pixel-based editors offer? Curious :)