Free Game Spritesfor Your Next Project
Pixel art assets, ready to drop into your game. All free, all CC0.
Most amateur pixel art reads as amateur because it uses 200 colors when it should use 16. The math, the historical reason, and a workflow for picking a tight palette and sticking to it — illustrated with shipped games and the NES-era hardware lessons everyone forgot.
Fill your character with pure black and step back 3 meters. Can you still tell what it is? If not, the sprite has a silhouette problem — the single most common cause of generic-looking indie pixel art. Six fixes from shipped games.
Two combat systems with the same hitboxes can feel completely different. The difference is 7 small effects — hitstop, hit flash, knockback, screen shake, particles, sound layering, anticipation — stacked together. Tunable numbers from shipped games.
Pixel art assets, ready to drop into your game. All free, all CC0.
