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Hey gang, I'm getting warmed up for the next Ludum Dare and I want to try something besides Seashore (I'm on OSX).

I loved mtPaint when I used LOVE on Linux, and I was wondering if anybody has suggestions for a similar program on OSX.

Pixen looks pretty good, that's the first one I'll audition.

Also, and more interestingly, do any of you use a custom pixel art program made in LOVE? I've used LOVE to make simple level editors, so it's not too much of a stretch to imagine extremely-domain-specific sprite art programs out there.


Yeah!


-Nick

There's SuperSprite, which looks cool!

Oh neat, SuperSprite does look cool. Am I weird for wanting to add vim-like navigation to plotting pixels? Is that how bitmap programs worked in the dinosaur Amiga days? More importantly, what am I talking about!


-Nick

I wonder if there's a remake of DeluxePaint floating around...

GrafX2 is said to be inspired by Deluxe Paint, has a Mac OS X port and has keyboard navigation!

And it's scriptable with Lua as well!

Oh wow, amazing! Thank you. I hope I can press J to toggle documents. I used to love making 2-frame animations on this when I was a kid.

Holy crap, I never heard of DPaint until I read the Warcraft post-mortem that came out last week.

I ended up using Pickle for Ludum Dare, and it was very nice although not being able to zoom in and not being able to select-move regions when making animations was a trifle annoying.


-Nick

Holy crap, Grafx2 is amazing. I feel like I just experienced a part of the past I never knew existed. Too bad is crashes like crazy on OSX. Linux version is stable unless I used fonts. But those brushes, alpha, smudge, scatter, dithered gradients and KEYBOARD DRAW are the bee's knees!

I've been playing with Sprite Something this evening, the Dropbox integration is neat I just have LOVE reload my images every 5 seconds and pass the iPad around!

It's too bad none of the cool sprite programs (mtPaint, Grafx2) seem to run well on OSX. Pickle is good for small tasks, but I don't think I would use it for a whole game. Oh well, guess I should learn Photoshop like everybody else.