Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
What are sprites? Sprites are the images that make up your game, from your player
to items and environment elements; each image you create is a sprite.
Drawing your sprites are really not difficult, in fact you can even scan your drawings
into Photoshop and draw on top of your paper drawing. Incidentally, we are going
to do something similar. Here's a drawing of a simple character:
Credit:
williammalone.com
Nothing fancy, but certainly something simple we can work with. Let's open up our
scanned image in Photoshop.
Typical sizes for sprites are 32 x 32; however, with bigger screens such as the
Galaxy
Note
and
iPhone 6 Plus
, we will want to use some larger sprite sizes. For this
example, we are going to create a 50 x 50 sprite. We will worry about sizing it later.
