Sprite (Pico-8)

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

For collision looks here

Online editor: draw pico-8 sprites! - up to 32x32

Sprite Animation

The secret guide to bullets, sprites, and animations

Basic

Easy Sprite Animation in Pico-8 - Beginner Tutorial - cover animation as basic example
- animation loop & boundary
- speed setting

Assuming you have GFX 8x8 sprite available from 1 to 5, code looks like this (from How to Animate a Sprite!):

sprite = 1
x = 64
y = 64
timing = 0.25

function _draw()
    cls()
    spr(sprite, x, y)
end

function _update()
    --animate
    sprite += timing
    if sprite >= 5 then sprite = 1 end
end

`anim()`

Obviously code above can be made generic (see anim()), and complefixied when dealing with non-symetrical actor (multi 8x8 sprite) (see Advanced animation).

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.