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Lucy [hiatus era] 𒌋𒁯

is there any even remotely competing free alternative to aseprite in the year 2024?
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Lucy [hiatus era] 𒌋𒁯

@mia also @sally because gnu jihadist
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@lucy i wonder what happened to libresprite (a fork of it)

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@lucy @mia @sally personally ive looked a while ago and it's dire
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@mia @lucy no updates for 8 months, but still works? https://github.com/LibreSprite/LibreSprite

idk how it compares to aseprite though
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@lucy the other one was pixelorama i think? no idea about that one.

other than that all we have is krita i guess

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@mia krita is crap for pixelart and aseprite is *excellent* for that niche
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@mia @lucy pixelorama still seems to get updates

i could never figure it out tho
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@lucy @mia If you're doing pixel art I've heard good things about http://grafx2.chez.com/
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@scathach @mia are those "good things" in the room with us right now?
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@scathach @mia @lucy i think i tried it once and i cant remember what my gripe with it was, perhaps the interface being too hard to use on a modern sized screen
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@meso @mia @lucy Oh yeah it's a direct clone of an amiga program iirc
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@mia @lucy i used pixelorama for a couple things but its ... kind of a meme. for example it doesn't obey palette indices which is something you tend to need when working with those old engines unless you are purely spriting for clout. krita also doesn't obey sprite indices.

gimp does.
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@scathach @mia @lucy @meso deluxe paint.

not as good of a clone as cosmigo pro motion—but thats proprietary
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