Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26957768-20160812221817/@comment-24577221-20160822001320

My Muppets Show (MMS above) was taken down, not MSM.

The game's files include a bunch of images and sounds. For each monster, there's at least one big picture file which has all of the pieces that are combined to draw the monster as it moves. For example, the file for the Mammott has the left and right feet, both flat on the ground and slightly raised; pieces for its legs; two pieces for each arm, and one for each shoulder; ten different versions of its mouth; lots of pieces for its eyes so they can move slightly; fingers, and a few more bits. It's rather like a paper doll drawn in pieces and stuck together with clips that let the pieces move relative to each other.

It's possible to take that file and recolour it, then put the altered version back for the game to use. What you end up seeing when you play the game is your special version.

The game also has data files which tell it how to assemble all of those pieces, not to mention just where the pieces are on that big picture file. So if you wanted to put a completely different monster into the game, you would need to change those data files too.

I know how to work with the recoloured picture file in the Windows version of the game, but I don't know how to do the more complicated stuff.