It is, unfortunately, a problem sometimes though. Photoshop has a stupid 500 frame limit for animated GIFs but you’ll probably hit Twitter’s 5mb size limit before this becomes a problem. Make your GIFs 506 pixels wide by less than or equal to 506 pixels tall so that Twitter doesn’t resize them and make them all blurry (especially important for pixel art).

I tried a bunch of different tools and processes before deciding on this as by far the best way. In a nutshell I use Apple’s Quicktime Player to screen capture followed by a process in Photoshop to crop and convert to animated GIF. Most people seem to use GifCam on PC but there doesn’t seem to be a Mac equivalent.

Posting animated GIF images on Twitter is a very good way to get retweets and likes and build awareness of your game, but if you’re using a Mac there aren’t that many tools out there for the job. Haven’t done a ‘tutorial’ style post in a while. I’ve been asked how I do this a few times on Twitter so thought I’d write a post about it.

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