This week's ALChoon felt like it needed a more animated animation, and that sent me down the path of "Oh, why not just make a game of it...?"

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It started with Bing, oddly enough. The other day I tested out the new DallE3 model that Bing Image Generation has implemented.
I asked for...
"retro SNES spritesheet, animated girl running and jumping, coins, blocks, floor tiles, rainbow"



Quite frankly, I was gobsmacked by the output, and have since tried all manner of different inputs, getting wonderful variations of test spritesheets out of the thing.
Really, in the future of gamedev, having that work THAT well, is going to be amazing!

You can see more output here.

I wondered how well they could "really" be used ingame, and since this week's ALChoon is "plinky plunky chiptune", it seemed appropriate to use the above image and try to rip the sprites out of it.



Within a couple of hours, the majority of this game took shape.
I've since rejigged a few bits and pieces, added a few level themes, and made it feel like a good and proper game.

Honestly, this came together really well, and I have Bing to thank for that.
... *nngh*

I'm now way behind on the ALChoon, though, so today will be about adding lyrics to the Choon, and then generating a video using the game.
Once all's done, I'll get around to posting the game, and all will be good!

Aaaah...

... Absolutely no news about the house move.
:/


"beautiful pastel watercolour painting of Cartoon Derek glides through the air, leaping above a beautiful watercolour flowerbed." by #DiffusionBee