February 19, 2025

Today I wanted to test whether my battle screen can support animation.  So I whipped up a new enemy and tested it out.  Sure enough, it does.  I'm not sure if I'll have animated enemies or not, but I now know I can support it.  I'm also considering having some enemies have animated moves (ie bosses).  This would be a good use case for a boss.  Have a normal static image for basic attacks and then have a "bite" attack that does this animation.  I'm assuming that would work, but I haven't tried it yet.  Anyhow, here's the outcome.  Shoutout to /r/gbstudio for helping me troubleshoot an issue where part of the truck was disappearing on 2 of the 4 animation frames.  I think I was hitting the tile limit since my enemy name is also stored as a sprite.  I shrank that canvas and reduced the letters in the name and it now works as seen below.