re: #432 WindUpBird

and of course as a kid, what’s the first thing I did when I sat down at a new text adventure? Fired off every foul thing I could think of to see if the game would recognize it.

I could never get into coding, tried multiple times, no head for it. So I wound up being the graphics guy for my friends’ game projects in high school, entering pixel art coordinates by hand using graph paper. We animated a character for a game, six fame walk cycle, every pixel was entered into a data file as a coordinate. TOOK SO LONG

The early Ataris had ‘sprites’ that were basically a group of pixels that could be manipulated as a unit and ‘paged’ to look animated.