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GIVE ME TIGER BEETLES OR GIVE ME DEATH

Improved my tiger beetle sprites. I think they look much better now :) and for every reblog this post gets I'll add one additional tiger beetle species to the game.

The problem with the old sprites was that tiger beetles are like 90% leg and at rest they like to stand with their legs sprawled out and their antennae out, and it was hard to get all that leg in a 32x32 sprite and still illustrate the elytra pattern. To fix this I gave them 48x48 sprites which gives them much more room to breathe and look natural.

The old sprites for comparison: