Lightning Bolt
 

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A lightning bolt. I'm not quite sure about it. Any comments?

I like it. :p

Maybe try make some "small" sparks around and such? :)

looks neat !

animation plx

There's actually no need to animate lightning. You can efficiently create lighting by flashing for it just a fraction of a second(1 frame?) and making it fade out. After all, that's how real lightning works. Animating it striking would just make it look slow. I mean, sometimes it works, but I don't think it's really needed in this case. If one frame looks too lacking, can easily flip it for second frame.

Yeah, I agree. The only thing that would probably look good would be what Dusty suggested and maybe some debris and dust or whatever.

I agree with you here, but I recall seeing a lightning bolt change (so that would be a second frame) after striking, so it would be another kind of lightning strike.
Needless to say that both would work anyway :).

Having an alternation of shape in a lightning strike sprite only works well at 50 fps and above I guess.