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What is your favorite, lossless image format for games (namely 2d games)? And why?
Some things to take into consideration are size on disk, overhead for converting to a usable format, and features of the format (ie alpha support).
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I’d suggest PNG. Most software supports writing it, most libraries support reading it, it’s lossless and supports alpha transparency. And it’s a standard format.
And, maybe important for hobbyist 2D games, very small images also result in very small files (i.e. a 16×16 icon can be 1KB or less).