dota-2-emoticons

📊 Project Summary

dota-2-emoticons was one of my earliest projects — a simple tool that let Reddit users display animated Dota 2 flair next to their usernames using clever CSS tricks. It generated both the sprite sheet and the corresponding CSS rules needed to make the emoticons appear inline, styled, and animated.

Example Animation: #aaaah, #angel, #blink and #bts3_merlini

The project itself isn’t particularly impressive by today’s standards, but at the time it was a great introduction to how stylesheets, sprites, and web animations work together. I learned a lot about positioning, layering, and how to make CSS do more than just decorate static content.

It’s a small project, but one that helped lay the groundwork for more complex frontend work later on.