Effects Lab

Presenting Effects Lab! Experiment and play around with a circle and its wiggly tail. Generate a wide range of pixel art effects. Create flames, blasts, blobs and more!!

A proof of concept test game, made with python and pygame, that generates procedural particle effects.

It is strongly recommended keyboard shortcuts are used over the settings menu for ease of use and to enable exploration of combinations that are not possible with the settings menu.

Key(s)	Function
Move Mouse	Move Orb
Click Mouse	Radial Blast
B	Toggle Tail Bloom
G	Toggle Gravity
F	Toggle Flame
H	Toggle Repeat Blast
J	Toggle Screen Shake
T/Shift + T	Increase/Decrease Tail Length and Bloom Speed
V/Shift + V	Increase/Decrease Flame Volume
A/Shift + A	Increase/Decrease Flame Amplitude
R/Shift + R	Increase/Decrease Flame Rate
W/Shift + W	Increase/Decrease Blast Width
S/Shift + S	Increase/Decrease Blast Speed
D/Shift + D	Increase/Decrease Blast Duration
Z/Shift + Z	Increase/Decrease Screen Shake Duration
X/Shift + X	Increase/Decrease Screen Shake Intensity
I	Controls
O	Settings
P	Pause
Tab	Toggle Fullscreen
, or Esc	Quit