A free 2D Character Spritesheet generator

Welcome to the Facondia Games blog! Today we are talking about one of our favorite tools for developing breathtakingly beautiful indie games.

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The everyday problem

If you're an indie developer, you'll often have found yourself in the role of handyman: graphic designer, social media manager, copy-writer, sometimes maybe even developer... there's always plenty of work to be done to develop any software product. In these cases, it's important to take advantage of third-party tools as much as possible that will allow you to complete any work within the timeframe necessary for it to be of value.

If you're an indie developer, you'll often have found yourself in the role of handyman.

Too bad that, being an indie developer, you probably also find yourself in chronic lack of funds to invest! It would be very easy to open itch.io or any other marketplace and purchase what you need. Even better, you could directly contact a freelancer graphic designer who would create exactly what you need, in the time you need it.

Unfortunately, none of the latter is really an option. For us indie developers, the norm is to spend hours searching for free, commercially licensed graphics that moreover match each other well in design style, size, palette, and you name it.

Fortunately, occasionally luck comes to our aid. Today we would like to tell you about a free and open source tool, which allows you to generate Spritesheets from a wide range of possible combinations, with the possibility to add more assets as you like: the Universal LPC Spritesheet Character Generator (CC-BY-SA 3.0).

The Universal LPC Spritesheet Character Generator

This tool is available here as a ready-to-use tool or on Github as an open-source project released under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. Thanks to sanderfrenken for sharing it on Github!

Read more about the CC-BY-SA-3.0 licence on the Creative Commons Website.

How it works

This tools is easy and straightforward to understand.

• On the left there are some buttons to:

  • - download the image in PNG format, and the required credits (it's a CC-BY-SA-3.0 licensed tool)
  • - reset the settings
  • - change the view between collapsed and expanded
  • - a search bar where to look for specific details

• On the left there are the body, head, arms, torso legs and weapons editing menus. From here it's possible to choose how the character will look like.

• On the right there are both the preview of how the animations will look like (walk, shoot, slash, hurt...) and a preview of the complete spritesheet.

Best feature

From the Advanced tools, you can upload custom image assets or define custom animation sequences!

Our thoughts

This is an amazing tool and we like it so much! It saves us the thought of creating 4-way animations of pixel art characters and allows us to upload our own custom images.