Pixel-art assets for indie games

Free pixel-art magic effects for your game, plus tools to make more.

Magic circles, portals, runes, spell and elemental effects. Sprite sheets and GIFs, ready for Godot 4 and Aseprite.

Six animated pixel magic circles in purple, orange, blue, green, magenta and gold. Animated pixel fire, ice, lightning and acid effects. Animated pixel portals with rune circles. Animated pixel spell effects: fireball, ice shard, lightning strike and rune ring.

Free packs

Start free. Every pack is complete on its own.

Free downloads on itch.io. Want more? Magic Circles, Spell Effects, Fire & Elemental, Portals & Runes, Hit & Impact Sparks, Barriers & Shields, Status Auras & Buffs and Weather & Ambient Loops have bigger full versions, Magic Circles Complete, Pixel Spell Effects Complete, Pixel Fire & Elemental Complete, Pixel Portals & Runes Complete, Pixel Hit & Impact Sparks Complete, Pixel Barriers & Shields Complete, Pixel Status Auras & Buffs Complete and Pixel Weather & Ambient Loops Complete, and the smith tools generate new effects in the same style.

Full versions

Need more than the free pack?

Pixel Status Auras and Buffs Complete cover: all 16 animated pixel status effects with HUD icons, shown over a grey preview figure.

Paid

Pixel Status Auras & Buffs Complete

16 animated status effects (burn, stun, heal, haste, curse, sleep, charm and more), each with start, loop and end at 5 natively rendered sizes from 32 to 128 px, plus plain and framed HUD icons, Godot 4 .tres files, Aseprite JSON and 12 palettes. The bigger version of Free Pixel Status Auras & Buffs.

Get the Complete version on itch

Make your own

The smith tools: generate more in the same style

Generators that export sprite sheets for Godot 4 and Aseprite. Paid; current prices are on each itch page.

Also on itch.io

Arcane Ruins cover: pixel ruins game kit.

Paid

Arcane Ruins

A 16x16 ruined mage-tower kit: characters, autotiles, props, 9-slice UI and 57 magic FX; characters from CC0 models (Quaternius).

See it on itch

How it’s made

No AI image, video or audio model was used. Every frame is generated by our own procedural code from fixed seeds. The free packs and smith tools use no stock or third-party art; Arcane Ruins characters are rendered from CC0 Quaternius models.

Use them in your game

Each pack’s license is in its download and on its itch page. Questions: [email protected].