So naturally the first of hopefully few problems has popped up right at the start haha Turns out the animation tool is not quite as easy as I was hoping it’d be to get running. I figure down the road when I have all the kinks in this workflow hammered out, I’ll be able to follow the ideal schedule (while the programming is being done, I can start designing and doing the art for the next game and just check on the builds daily to test for an hour or so)…but for this first game I’m going to be hand-holding the thing all the way to the App Store to learn the ropes.

The ninja now slides to the left and right. It’s basic and needs to be tweaked, but at least he’s movin’! Rain effects have also been added, and they look good but the raindrops themselves are verrrrry slowly rotating over time haha Like a couple degrees of rotation a loop, so over time some of them end up totally horizontal! Not quite what I was going for haha I suspect it’s looking at like, the amount of rotation on the first frame (since the drops are straight vertical as a .PNG file but rotated slightly in the animation tool) is being added each loop so if the drop is rotated +4 degrees, next loop it becomes +8 degrees, next is +12, etc.