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Building Character

Agents change their appearance as they move around your game world.

Many video games show a character moving through the game world. Usually, sprite-based characters will change their animations to represent the direction the character is facing or moving.

In this how-to, we’ll explain an easy way to handle this sort of change in the Murder engine: the Agent Sprite Component.

Robot Walking Animation - Shows robot walking in four directions

Last updated: December 27, 2024

Planning a Character

Decide which animations you need

Paint Animations

Build your animations in Aseprite

Import Sprites

Import the animations into Murder

Sprite Facing

Add the Sprite Facing component

Agent Sprite

Add the Agent Sprite component