Fantasy Map Kit

What it does for your game

No more repainting the whole map: Coasts, rivers and trails join by rule, so you mark land on a grid and stop redrawing one big map picture every time a town moves.
Picture your overworld: A dotted trail runs from the village past a smoking volcano to the castle, a kraken surfaces offshore, and fog of war clears as the player explores.
Two looks that line up: An inked parchment look and a bright overworld look, 102 pieces each on a 16x16 grid, at 1x to 4x, with 4x4 mask sheets for the joining sets.

Everything to draw a pixel art fantasy world map on a 16x16 grid, in two looks: an inked parchment map and a bright game overworld. Terrain and town stamps, coasts, rivers and trails that join, fog of war, sea monsters, a compass, banners, a 9-slice frame and animated quest markers: 102 pieces per look, 244 frames in all. For RPG overworlds, level-select maps, strategy games and tabletop campaign maps.

Licence in one line: use it in your commercial games and maps; do not resell the files. No credit required.

What you get (in each look)

Terrain (15): mountain, mountains twin, mountain snow, hills, hill, forest, tree, pines, pine, swamp, dunes, palm, big mountain, volcano, island. The volcano smokes (4 frames).
Places (11): village, town, castle, tower, ruins, cave, dungeon, port, shrine, city, castle big.
Sea (4): ship, sea serpent, whale, kraken, 2 frames each.
Coasts (16 tiles) picked by which corners are land: mark land on the grid and every shoreline meets its neighbours.
Fog of war (15 tiles) on the same corner rule, to lay over the map and clear as the player explores.
Rivers (15) and dotted trails (15) by the edges they leave through, always at the edge middle.
Map pieces: a compass rose (32 and 16 px), a scale bar, a ribbon banner and a scroll cartouche for titles (stretchable), a 9-slice map frame with corner ornaments.
Markers: a player pin, quest ! and ? bubbles, a flag (4 frames each) and an X that marks the spot (2 frames).

Files

Every piece and frame as its own PNG at 1x, 2x, 3x and 4x, in both looks.
Each joining set also as a 4x4 sheet where the cell number is the mask, ready for an autotile rule.
pieces.json: size, frames, fps and 9-slice margins of every piece, and the mask rules. Palettes, README, LICENSE.

Why this kit

Two looks of the same pieces: a parchment map for the menu and a game overworld for play, and they line up.
Tiles that join by rule, not just stamps: coasts, fog, rivers and trails meet their neighbours on any map you draw.
Animated markers for quests and the player, ready for a level-select screen.

Good to know

The maps in the screenshots are built only from this pack. The text on the pictures is our preview font, not included.
Square 16x16 grid, not hex. No characters or interiors.