Gridwright
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Pixel VFX
100 animated pixel art effects: explosions, hits, magic, fire, smoke and loot bursts as sprite sheets.
- Formats
- PNG, GIF, JSON
- Download
- 4 MB
Download it: 3 days for $1
This pack alone is $9.99. In Gridwright it comes with every other pack and all 31 tools, for $17 a month.
What it does for your game
- No more effects that clash: No outlines and no half-transparent pixels, so explosions, slashes and magic sit cleanly on any background in your game.
- Your combat, with impact: A sword slash arc, a hit star on the enemy, a fireball that opens into a ring, then coins bursting from the loot.
- 100 effects, ready strips: 20 effects in 5 colours each, 32x32 and 48x48 frames, seamless loops, 1x, 2x and 3x, and animations.json with frame counts and speed.
100 animated pixel art effects: 20 effects, each in 5 colours. Explosions, hits, slashes, magic, fire, smoke, water and loot effects for top-down games, platformers and RPGs.
Licence in one line: use it in your commercial games; do not resell the files.
The 20 effects
- Explosion: a fireball that opens into a ring, with sparks
- Nova: an expanding magic ring
- Hit: an impact star for melee and bullet hits
- Slash: a sword swing arc
- Lightning: a bolt strike with a flash
- Projectile: a flying bolt with a flickering tail (points right)
- Charge: particles gathering into a glowing core
- Shield: a bubble with a moving shimmer
- Portal: a spinning gate
- Arc: an electric arc between two points
- Fire: a flame
- Smoke: a rising puff
- Dust: a landing or dash puff
- Shockwave: a ground ring for stomps and landings
- Splash: droplets and a ripple
- Splat: a burst with flying drops
- Bubbles: rising bubbles that pop
- Heal: rising plus signs over a ring
- Sparkle: twinkling stars
- Pickup: a burst for coins and loot
Colours: fire, ice, arcane, nature, holy, shadow, blood, steel, sand and smoke. Each effect comes in the five that suit it.
Made to drop in
- Sprite-sheet strips: one row of frames per animation, 32x32 px frames (48x48 for the two big ones).
- Every frame as its own PNG as well, and a GIF preview of every animation.
- 1x, 2x, 3x exports, pre-scaled and crisp.
- No outlines, no half-transparent pixels: the effects sit on any background.
- animations.json lists frame size, frame count, speed (12 fps) and whether it loops.
- Loops are seamless: fire, portal, shield, bubbles, sparkle, arc and projectile repeat cleanly.
Your game, looking finished
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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