A small or elusive supernatural being; an elf or pixie. - noun

• The secret guide to bullets, sprites, and animations
• draw pico-8 sprites! - up to 32x32

External tools

• export
  • export spritesheet.png
  • import spritesheet.png
• respriter - move sprites around and have the map updated to point to the new location of your sprites ( remove the 2 square brackets on tab 5, line 375. to fix bugs on latest version)

Sprite Rotation

• tline sprite rotation/scaling
• Sprite Rotation - 64x64

Animating Big Sprite

• How to Animate 16x16 Sprites in Pico-8
• 4x4 Sprites - use sspr()
  • sspr() is twice as slow as spr() - There are indeed ‘artificial’ costs assigned to the internal draw operations. For spr() it’s around 1 Lua vm instruction per drawn pixel, and sspr() it’s 2.

Tips

• Shadow Techniques - PEEK/POKE MERGE
• exploding sprite in particle
• draws a sprite to the screen with an outline of the specified colour
• z-index - use hash (table) indexed on z, rather than sorting sprite for drawing

Collision

• Guides for Sprite Collision detection …

Stacked Sprites

• Beginners Guide to Sprite Stacking using Magica Voxel and GameMaker Studio 2 or any Other Engine
• Flaming Stacks: Using stacked sprites in Flame
• Sprite Stacking - How to Make a 3D Game with a 2D Engine
• Sprite stacking example

Sprite Composer

Create animation from sprite composition

see also

• Tutorial: Additional Sprite Memory
• Sprite Stacking with lighting in GameMaker Studio 2.3 - Part 1