Woohoo!  I spent some time setting up my environment ( which can be found here, for anyone interested).  I spruced up my usual site wrapper a little bit and made the game size a little wider.

I also spent some time in Spriter attempting to animate a sprite.  Boy, I have most definitely been missing out!  In not 15 minutes I had created a very simple running penguin animation:

It’s certainly not perfect but it’s better than anything I could have created for sure!  All in all, it’s 12 frames of animation.  That’s insane!  I’m used to making walking cycles that are 4-6 frames because it’s too expensive to do any more than that during the weekend.  This program should really help me to make something cool!

Good luck to everyone, and here’s to a great weekend!