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This project serves as a useful real-world example of using image generation to create simple, game-ready sprites.
Willison frames his exploration of the Pedalican pet-creation process as motivated by his interest in finding examples of image generation being used to produce game-ready sprites. ✦ AI generated
Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-07-14 · original ↗
I've been looking out for example of ways to use image generation to create simple game-ready sprites, so I spent some time digging into this mechanism to see how it works.
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A game engine alone cannot achieve photorealism at scale because rendering explicit detail is prohibitively expensive for most creators and players.Anupam Singh · ByteByteGo Newsletter · conf 75%A single gpt-image-2 output image, produced from a highly structured prompt specifying character identity and a flat magenta chroma-key background, was compiled into the waving.gif animation.Simon Willison · Simon Willison's Weblog · conf 60%