🎮 Setup Guide — Deymoon Platformer Starter

Good news: all the game code is already written! Your job is just to get the character art files into Godot. Follow these steps and you’ll have a playable game in minutes.

🕹️ Step 1 — Load the Project

1. Open your browser and go to https://editor.godotengine.org
2. Download character-sprite-animation.zip
3. Drag the ZIP file onto the Project Manager window
4. Click Install and wait for it to finish loading
5. Press the ▶ Play button at the top — you should see the game running!

💡 Try it out! Press A/D to move and Space to jump. This is your game.

🎨 Step 2 — Download the Character Sprites

The game needs 13 image files — one for each move your character can do.

1. Go to https://deymoon.itch.io/character-template and click Download
2. Open the ZIP file that downloads to your computer
3. Find the folder containing the PNG files (they all start with character_)
4. Keep this folder open — you’ll need it in the next step

📁 You’re looking for 13 files like character_idle.png, character_walk.png, etc.

🖌️ Step 3 — Customize a Sprite in Piskel

1. Open https://www.piskelapp.com/ in your browser
2. Drag and drop one PNG from your Deymoon folder into the Piskel editor (for example character_idle.png)
3. In Import and Merge, choose Import as spritesheet
4. Set Frame size to 48 × 48 (width 48px), then click import
5. Edit each frame in the timeline to draw your own character over the existing animation
6. When you’re done: Export → PNG, set Rows to 1 (and Columns to match the number of frames), then click Download
7. Drag the exported PNG into Godot to replace the original file (keep the filename exactly the same)

📂 Step 4 — Add the Sprites to Godot

⚠️ Important: Drag the PNG files in directly — do NOT drag the ZIP file.

1. In Godot, find the FileSystem panel in the bottom-left corner
2. Click on the sprites/player/ folder to open it
3. Drag ALL 13 PNGs from your Deymoon folder into sprites/player/

Godot will automatically import them as you drop them in. Here are the exact file names — they must match exactly:

character_air-spin.png
character_crouch-idle.png
character_crouch-walk.png
character_idle.png
character_jump.png
character_land.png
character_ledge-climb.png
character_ledge-grab.png
character_roll.png
character_run.png
character_walk.png
character_wall-land.png
character_wall-slide.png

🔧 Step 5 — Fix the Blurry Pixels

Pixel art looks blurry by default. This one setting makes it look crisp:

Project → Project Settings → Rendering → Textures → Default Texture Filter → Nearest

Then click Save & Restart.

🖼️ Without this, your sprites will look soft and blurry. With it, every pixel is sharp!

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