A Swarm of Sprites

WORK IN PROGRESS!

About

This is a project for the recent event Comic Salon Erlangen 2024 as well as future events with artists from all over the world!

GitHub: https://github.com/ChrisDrake6/ComicSalonWimmelbild

Game Description

Draw your customers on your tablet and put them into full display - with a whole lot of bustling factor involved!

On the screen, all of your drawn portraits will be seen as animated sprites roaming around in an virtual event setting!

Let there be groups! Link your sprites together and they will roam the scene together!

How to use the Tool

1. Save your drawn head and  body as one .png file each with a corresponding prefix into a named folder.

2. Move the folder into the "resources" folder of this tool.

3. Wait for the tool to automatically import the drawings or load them directly via the Pause Menu

Further Controls:

Click on a drawing to open a context menu. There, you can either 

• link the drawing to another to let them roam around together or 
• force the drawing to leave the scene.

Press Esc to open a Pause Menu where the Sprites can be loaded manually

Release notes

V1 First Test on the event.

Credits

Christoph Ehrig - Coding
Sebastian Stamm  - Art
And the all the drawers and customers who drew themselves or each other for the maximum bustling factor!

HS Ansbach - VIS

This tool is created in collaboration with students of the Visualisation and Interaction in Digital Media (VIS) program of HS Ansbach  (2D Art and Portrait Drawings) and supervised by Prof. Sebastian Stamm