Unless you are building a Tetris clone or a text-based game, like the classic game Zork, you will need animations in your video game to make it feel more fluid. Even the 1978 game Space Invaders had a very basic and crude animation, where enemies provide the illusion of movement by switching between two sprites every second or so: at one moment the aliens’ arms are down and the next second the arms are up. Animations provide us with the illusion of life.
Another topic that has been missing in our game so far is text. Every single game has some form ...
