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AniMachine: WIP 2D Animation Software for games

Hey DEV

Recently I've been working on an indie game project and decided to work on my own 2D animation tool called AniMachine. It's written in Java and has a basic skeleton system along with a full UI (that's also dockable!) and I'm currently wondering if I should open source it.

I also need to decide on some sort of file format for exporting them, perhaps something similar to how Spine2D does it? I don't know. Anyway, feel free to drop a comment with your thoughts below.

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