Alpha names and ignored newlines in SystemAssets animation.txt files

[AdamsImmersive (Morgan)]

These enhancements would be great natively in the SDK. In the meantime, I made a Nova extension for them:

Here’s a Nova Extension to help work with animation.txt files

I made an extension for Panic’s Nova code editor (which has great integration with the Playdate SDK!) to make it easier to create the animation.txt files for launch card animations, and to edit them later. Grab it here! In short, you can use names for your images and format things with newlines and whitespace for readability and flexibility. Then this extension converts it all to the official less-friendly format. What this does is pretty basic, and I can imagine lots more that could be done…