Spritesheet Metadata Lives Outside the PNG That Carries the Art
Game development spritesheets ship as PNGs paired with separate JSON/XML metadata or no metadata at all, forcing every tool to re-parse layouts. Proposal embeds the metadata in a PNG chunk so the sheet is self-contained.
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