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    Idle Animations

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    An Iconic concept of video games is the use of an idle animation for the players character, when during gameplay there's no control given. It's an example of emergent game design, and is used as a way to add depth to action characters.

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    Edit # Submitter Type Comment Sent for moderation Points Status
    280808 Panteon00 Game 04/30/24 10:22AM 160 done
    270041 BeachThunder Game 10/20/23 12:30AM 130 done
    244459 MelodicVirus Game 12/05/22 11:10PM 140 done
    237753 MelodicVirus Game 10/18/22 12:11AM 52 done
    237752 MelodicVirus Franchise 10/17/22 11:16PM 264 done
    237119 MelodicVirus Game 10/15/22 05:14PM 86 done
    237109 MelodicVirus Game 10/15/22 04:57PM 80 done
    191936 franzlska Game 01/21/22 09:43PM 157 done
    182136 fezz Game 10/20/21 06:04PM 30 done
    179844 Veilor Franchise 10/06/21 10:29PM 50 done
    172677 bobafettjm Game 08/08/21 09:18PM 108 done
    137969 PeezMachine Concept As seen on GBI: impatient foot-tapping idle animations! 11/03/20 11:09AM 2 done
    137087 crashtanuki Game 10/25/20 10:45PM 150 done
    133948 bundle85 Game 09/25/20 07:13AM 10 done
    126582 Velutha Game 07/26/20 08:06PM 46 done
    113709 Velutha Game 05/12/20 03:05PM 18 done
    107258 Velutha Game 04/13/20 09:48AM 144 done
    107243 Velutha Game 04/13/20 09:01AM 282 done
    53738 TK_Frampt Concept The main characters have idle animations like crossing their arms or stretching. 06/11/19 01:02AM 2 done
    30684 HardcoreGamer99 Concept 11/28/18 07:31PM 2 done
    18069 BeachThunder Concept 09/18/18 07:22AM 1 done

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