Modular Spaceships
Top-down pixel art spaceship parts that snap on a 16x16 grid: 4 factions, damage, flames, builder.
- What's inside
- 30 Ships
- Sizes
- Top-down, 16x16
- Formats
- PNG, JSON, HTML (runs in a browser)
- Download
- 9 MB

What it does for your game
- No more one-off enemy ships: Parts snap together on a 16x16 grid under one join rule, so you stop drawing every ship from zero and build a whole fleet from the same pieces.
- Picture your fleet battle: A scorched Raider capital ship with holes in its hull turns its turrets on your Navy fighter, whose engine flames flicker inside a shield bubble.
- A damaged version of every part: 66 parts in 4 factions, 528 part sprites with the damaged versions, 24 flame animations, 30 premade ships and an offline Ship Builder that exports PNGs and JSON recipes.
Top-down pixel art spaceship parts that snap together on a 16x16 grid. 66 parts in 4 factions, each also damaged (528 part sprites), animated engine flames, turrets, shields, 30 premade ships and a Ship Builder that runs in your browser. Cockpit x body x wing x engine x weapon alone makes 38,400 different ships. For shoot 'em ups, space roguelites, fleet battles and space strategy.
Licence in one line: use it in your commercial games; do not resell the files. Credit "Art by Gridwright" with a link.
The parts
10 hull bodies and spines, 8 capital-ship slabs, 8 cockpits and noses, 20 wings (left and right), 6 engines, 8 weapons, 6 utility pieces.
- One rule for every join: up/down on the 8 px spine (x 4..11), sideways on y 4..11. Capital slabs fill their cell, so they tile into ships of any size (bow, slabs, stern).
- 4 factions: Navy, Raider, Military, Royal. Damaged versions of every part, with holes, exposed frames and scorch.
- 24 flame animations (4 colours x 6 engines, 4 frames), 3 turrets in 8 directions, 5 shield bubbles (32-128 px, 6 frames).
- Right wings are drawn on their own, so the light still comes from the top left.
The Ship Builder
- One HTML file, works offline. Click parts onto the grid, mirror mode, pick faction, damage and flame colour, or press Random.
- Export PNG at 1x, 2x or 4x, a 4-frame sheet with the flames, and the recipe as JSON. Built ships are shaded as one piece: one clean outline, no seams.
- Tested in headless Microsoft Edge: its exports match the pack's PNGs pixel for pixel. Works in Chrome and Edge on Windows.
Made to drop in
- Every part, flame, turret, shield and ship as its own PNG at 1x-4x, sheets with JSON maps, spaceships.json with every recipe.
- The stars, shots and text in the screenshots are previews (not included).
Licence
Want more parts, a faction or bigger capital pieces? Leave a comment: the pack gets updates.
Every Gridwright asset pack, made to fit together, and all 31 tools for the fiddly work, with every new release, for $17 a month. Try it in your own game first: 3 days for $1, cancel any time.
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