Hi,
I was thinking about making a game with a load of large sprites and animations but not sure if the playdate will be able to handle loads of large animations frames.
At a previous company i worked at we had an internal tool that let us animate sprites on a timeline then that was spat out to a json file and the game loaded that to save on texture memory, we also used it for mirroring large sprites too.
Heres a quick example of what I'm talking about,
A set bank of sprites, which can be moved rotated and scaled and faded on a timeline.
Doing this cuts back on texture memory needed for loads of complex animations.
My question is thee a tool anyone know of that could do this on playdate?
I know of these programs which do something similar but i think they will be a little overkill for the playdate.
Dragonbones
Spine
Spriter
It would be good to know if anyone has experimented with this yet or if someone is more familiar with something like spine which from a quick glance of the site says it supports json export.
Is it worth perusing making a simple tool like this or has it already been solved?
more investigation , spine has a generic lua runtime and lua love 2d