How to pause execution until an animation/animator finishes?

[matt (gingerbeardman)]

Try putting your code in the sprite's update function. That code is run every time the Sprite is updated which feels right for your task.

You might also find Nic's sequence library useful. It may not do what you want, exactly, but will have some good ideas in its code.

A list of helpful libraries and code

Today I finally cleaned up a library that I've been using since quite a while now and that I find very helpful to add animation. sequence.lua.zip (2.5 KB) It allows you to play a sequence of easings. It's so much easier to add more interesting or complex animations. In our game I'm still using my own easing library (that I also used for quite some time) so I had to refactor a bit to use the playdate ones. Maybe that introduced some bugs. Let's hope not. So has an example, this is how I anima…