Images and Sprites

I’m not skilled at drawing, but I decided to have fun and create the game image assets myself.

This is supposed to be a fox, the main character of the game:

I tried a couple of free drawing tools for macOS (Paintbrush, Pencil2D), but without a drawing tablet, the result was too rough.

Procreate

I ended up using Procreate on iPad to draw background images and animations.

After choosing the right brush and learning a few features, it was the perfect tool for the job.

I used the Animation Assist and onion skinning features to draw animations.

ColorDrop, which allows you to fill an area with a color by dragging and dropping the current color on the drawing, was great, especially after I discovered the threshold parameter.

Animation Sprites

To pack animation frame images into a single sprite, I used the Online Texture Atlas Generator.

It’s a great tool — simple and reliable — and I would recommend it for generating sprite sheets.