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Visual Novel Backgrounds

Pixel art VN backgrounds: school, home, town, nature, spooky; day, sunset, night, rain; 16:9 Ren'Py

Formats
JSON
Engine files
Ren'Py
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15 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.
Visual Novel Backgrounds, moving preview
Visual Novel Backgrounds: picture 1Visual Novel Backgrounds: picture 2Visual Novel Backgrounds: picture 3

What it does for your game

  • No drawing a room three times: All 14 locations come at day, sunset and night, and the outdoor ones in rain, so the clock moves without you drawing a room twice.
  • A stage for every chapter: Your heroine confesses in the classroom at sunset, then waits on the rooftop at night while the rain loop falls.
  • Ren'Py ready at 3 sizes: 640x360, 1280x720 and 1920x1080 as whole-number copies, a .rpy file defining every image and backgrounds.json for other engines.

48 pixel art visual novel backgrounds: 14 locations at day, sunset and night, the outdoor ones also in rain. Home, school, town, work, nature and two spooky places, with no characters in them, so your sprites have the stage. 16:9 at 640x360, 1280x720 and 1920x1080, with a Ren'Py file ready to drop in.

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

What you get

  • 14 locations: bedroom, classroom, school hallway, cafe, office, library, gothic manor hall, basement, town street, park, rooftop, train station, beach, shrine steps.
  • Every location at day, sunset and night (6 outdoor ones also in rain): lamps, windows and screens light up at night, the sky changes through the windows.
  • Animations: a rain loop (8 frames, transparent) to draw over any outdoor scene, and the basement at night with a flickering bulb (6 frames).
  • Three sizes: 640x360 (pixel-perfect source), 1280x720 and 1920x1080, exact whole-number copies.
  • Ren'Py ready: gridwright_backgrounds.rpy defines every image (scene bg classroom day, scene bg street rain, show gw rain), plus backgrounds.json for other engines.

Made to match

  • The text box, name plate and portrait in the first screenshot are from Gridwright Pixel VN UI and Gridwright Pixel Portraits, not included): the sizes line up.
  • One-point perspective rooms, one light model for every time of day, a small palette per picture.

What it does not include

No characters, no UI and no music. The art is drawn at 640x360; the bigger files are scaled copies.

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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