Sprite Designs

Here is a list of the various character designs used across the SamJoean channels and how long they've been used.

## Denpa Men Sprites (2014-2017)

The Denpa Men were one of SamJoe's first designs for his characters. As their name suggests, the designs come directly from the Denpa Men series of games. However, only four characters (Reece, Lawrence, Robin, and Francisco) were taken from the games directly. All of the other characters were not from the games.

On April 17th, 2017, SamJoe retired the Denpa Men sprites as per the Reformation Declaration of 2017.

## Stickman Sprites (2014-present)

The stickman sprites are the only 2014-era sprites still in use today. They are mainly used for minor characters such as Carl Clent, Cloe Uscane, and Bruno from the livE Police.

## Wii U Sprites (2017-2020)

The Wii U sprites were first introduced as an April Fool's joke (sort of) on April 1st, 2017. SamJoe had plans to actually switch to the Wii U sprites after the original Season 5 or Season 6 run was over. But, after the Reformation Declaration of 2017, the designs were immediately switched to the Wii U sprites. The Wii U sprites could not rotate like the Denpa Man sprites could. These sprites stopped usage in videos when a solution was found for Project Kaerutomo, and were fully retired whenever SamJoe replaced his v7.0 intro with v7.1.

## Miitomo Sprites (2018-present)

On September 11th, 2018, SamJoe found out about a revival of Miitomo called Project Kaerutomo. SamJoe found this as a solution to the Wii U sprites' inability to rotate, and began to create new sprites with Miitomo. Unfortunately, the app's instability and the project itself was time-consuming due to Miitomo having a great number of poses, making each character have way more sprites than they used to (Sugar's sprite set had over 6000). The asset servers that Project Kaerutomo ran on were shut down by Nintendo on November 29th, 2018. The Miitomo Sprites for a bunch of characters were unfinished (most notably Joseph and Harry). The developers of Project Kaerutomo found a solution on March 24th, 2019, and thus, the Miitomo Sprites will continue to see usage.

## SamJoean Sprites (2017-2021)

The SamJoean Sprites were SamJoe Designs based off of the Wii U sprites, they first appeared in a Cyber Duel on Megasode 1, Released September 3, 2017. These appeared on other Cyber Duels as a part of the gauge used for info mainly,

Some of these designs also saw usage in videos outside of Cyber Duels. The first example was when Marys SamJoean Sprite was seen in a update video released on December 21, 2017. In terms of a actual series video, the first episode of Microsoft Sam reads User Generated Signs, released September 1, 2018 used some SamJoean character designs (Sam used them along with Bacon). However, parts of the video used the Wii U sprites.

On August 12, 2021, a new Cyber Duel design was revealed, however, the Miitomo designs were seen instead for the icons, thus the design became deprecated starting with S3E4 on January 15, 2022.

The Last Cyber Duel to use these sprites was in MSReas S5E2.1, Released September 15, 2021, 1 month after the reveal of the new design.

## Trivia

* Microsoft Sam and Microsoft Mike are the only main characters (other than Bruno) to have Stickman sprites.
* Microsoft George, Microsoft Hazel, and New are the only characters to not have any Denpa Man Sprites (excluding those that have Stickman sprites).
* As seen in the April Fool's 2017 video, Lawrence and Reece (and probably Robin and Francisco) were going to remain characters in the videos and go through the new sprite changes. This changed however, as per the Reformation Declaration of 2017, since their characters were taken from the Denpa Men series.