Hey, #gamedev people. What do y'all use for drawing pixel art these days? I'm looking into tools for this since what I've been using isn't really working out for me so well.
Also, really, I'm just trying to shut up the programmer in me that's going "If you'd just waste a few months of your life you can write your own, it'll be fun, promise!"
@typhlosion Yeah, that seems kind of less than ideal; not really much better than using gimp or krita.
@mauve if you find a good tool that's free, let me know 8<
@mauve what do you use currently? aseprite costs a few bucks but i've heard good things about it
(disclaimer: i'm not much of an artist)
@revenant I've been recommended Aseprite and Pyxel Edit so far. Both seem promising and I might just go for them both. Currently I've had experience using Krita and GIMP for my work because I'm a Linux-user and also cheapskate, but both of them have fairly serious drawbacks for this sort of art.
@mauve haha i can relate to the "build your own" impulse! i have to fight that for everything. (as to your original question, alas i am no use here)
@bunnyhero I've certainly had my pile of "Screw it, I can do this!" projects over the years and I'm eager to break this habit before I have even more of them, ahahah
@mauve Definitely Aseprite! It's the cutest! Unfortunately it's not open source anymore, but the source code is still public, and you can find free binaries for all mayor operating systems on the Internet. Try the pixelart subreddit.
@blinry I've been recommended Aseprite, but I didn't know it was (at one point?) open source, I'll definitely look at that as I am an open source nerd and think wrangling with build systems is a bizarre sort of fun.
@mauve Ah, for Linux: Arch/Gentoo have source packages, for Debian-based distris try to find the newest deb you can.
@mauve secondhand recommendation here, but ptoing has told me he swears by ProMotion for pixel art, and he definitely puts it to good use
@esselfortium First I've even heard of this one, huh. I'll keep it in mind. (Prioritizing checking out the ones that are Linux-native though, because I'm a dork.)
@mauve I haven't used it yet, but Hexels looks hella neat, and alos kind of magical?
http://boingboing.net/2017/04/09/hexels-grid-based-art-app-for.html
The demo video looks like witchcraft.
@ajroach42 ooh. I've seen this before, it looked interesting! Should keep it on my radar...
@mauve aseprite is free if you build your own binary, and it's super nice
shout up if you start writing one, though
@aeonofdiscord Yeah I uh already built one, after finding out I could! I'm a Linux nerd, fighting with build systems is my weird idea of fun, ahaha. Gonna play with it tonight.
@mauve Aseprite seems to be the best one by far. Multi-platform, robust toolset and only $10 the last time I checked.
@mauve Have you tried EDGE? http://takabosoft.com/edge
@373 wow, that is old looking. Not sure if I like the gimp-style multiwindow setup it has going on there...
@mauve I just use Paint.NET though I'm sure there are plenty of much better tools out there