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My lil sad boi 😢, why is he sad?

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Hey everyone! I'm Jordan, the developer of Stipple Effect, a new scriptable pixel art editor that I've been working on for the past few months.

I've posted about Stipple Effect in this subreddit and a couple of others for the past few weeks and have received plenty of valuable feedback from the community!

Two things now stand out to me:

1. Some people are still confused by what exactly my program does, or what it does differently.

I have provided examples and descriptions of the scripting system, arguably Stipple Effect's biggest unique selling point, in some of my other posts. While many people have intuitively understood why I felt this enabled such powerful workflows and was such a game changer, too many people were left confused.

Here are select examples of those posts:

• How useful would you find this pixel art tool as a Godot dev?
• My scriptable pixel art editor for making game art faster is on sale

2. I still don't know what the program's biggest pain points are.

I designed Stipple Effect for myself and have not had the opportunity to gather a sufficient amount of feedback from people that have actually used the program to know what its biggest issues at present are.

So, I am turning to the game development and pixel art communities once again...

If Stipple Effect is something you might find useful, please help me improve it. The program is released under a distribution model where the precompiled binaries are paid, but the program remains open source and can be compiled free of charge. The store page also has a freely downloadable demo available with all features except the ability to save and export your work. And since I am asking for help, I am happy to arrange download keys for a limited time if you message me privately.

This is what I need help with:

1. Help me gain a better understanding of which aspects of the program are intuitive and which are cumbersome or unclear

2. Help me get a sense of how accessible scripting is

I have written a wiki and an API for the scripting system, but I have little idea of how people are getting on with writing scripts in the program. I am curious to see how users with varying levels of programming experience can turn ideas for scripts and preview workflows into reality. Is the scripting language too complicated? Is it under-specified?

3. Help me improve my communication about the program's features

The comments under this post best illustrate the trouble I've been having. If you have familiarized yourself with Stipple Effect, how would YOU communicate what it does?

4. Help me to identify bugs

You can report bugs in the Community forums linked at the bottom of the store page or the Issues section of the Git repository. General feedback is best suited to the Community forums or under this post.

The best ways to keep up to date with the development of Stipple Effect are:

• Star jbunke/stipple-effect on GitHub
• Add Stipple Effect to a collection on Itch.io
• Subscribe to my YouTube channel, where I will be releasing devlogs, tutorials, and major update videos

Thank you all so much!

For my new project. This took longer than I thought it would (3 fricking hours!!!) and I have to do this guy in 300x300 in the future too -.-. Hope he looks cool though.