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Hey everyone, the next asset pack has arrived! Late night release. It’s still Friday the 13th somewhere, right…? Well, I started the upload when it was still Friday, so it counts!

Say hello to Super Pixel Props: Mansion Pack 1!

This asset pack includes a variety of furniture, curios, and fine art. There’s plants, chests, portraits, and lots of vases.

This asset pack is currently available to $5+ patrons via this link: https://untiedgames.itch.io/super-pixel-props-mansion-pack-1/patreon-access

This was a really fun asset pack to make. At first I was just drawing props that interested me, but eventually it coalesced around the “mansion” theme and I really got into it. My favorite furniture piece is the leather couch. You just know how that feels from looking at it, which means I accomplished my goal! My other favorites in this pack are the two portraits. I actually haven’t done much like that before, and it was really fun! In the spirit of Spooktober, I included versions of them with their eyes looking left, center, and right. That way their eyes can follow your player through the scene!

Can’t wait to do more props packs later on. Have a great weekend, and I’ll see you on Wednesday for another WIP post to check out the alien monster pack!

– Will

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Hey everyone, I’m here for another Work-In-Progress Wednesday! Let’s see what’s cooking in my pixel art cauldron for Halloween…

Alien Monster Pack 2

I’d like to introduce the first monster of the pack: Amoeba!

Amoeba is a ground-based amorphous blob enemy. It has a central core, which is the vulnerable part.

The design of the monster is complete, and after releasing the props pack I’ll be animating it and designing the rest of the monsters. I can’t wait to show you the next three monsters next week!

Props Pack 1

This is the perfect asset pack for a spooky mansion or haunted castle environment!

New to the pack since last time are plants:

Tables and a few things to put on them:

…And some more furniture, including bookshelves.

Let’s put it all together in a scene, for fun!

Props Pack 1 will be coming your way on Friday the 13th. Spooky!

See you soon with more pixel art!

– Will

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Hey everyone- First asset pack of Spooktober has arrived! Say hello to the juiciest effect pack yet. Give your game the gift of gore with these blood effect animations!

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Halloween Assets!

The spooky time of year is upon us once again! It’s my favorite season of the year for pixel art- I love drawing monsters and other terrors of the night. This month I have a couple different things planned. Let’s take a look!

Blood FX Pack 1

Since I’ve been enjoying drawing effects, I decided to do a pack that’s 100% blood effects! I’ve actually wanted to do this all year, but saved it for a special season. 😉

Like other effects packs, it’ll include 10 effects in both a large and small size, and different color themes. Need green blood for a monster or purple blood for an alien? I’ve got you covered! Blood FX Pack 1 is coming your way on Friday.

Read on for more WIP goodness…

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Hey everyone, the new asset pack is here at last! It’s a few days later than I planned, because I’m a bit of a perfectionist. This has some of the sparkliest effect animations yet!

This asset pack has 10 fantasy effect animation types. Each one comes in both a large and small version, and each one has multiple color themes! Let’s take a look at some more juicy preview GIFs.

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Hey everyone, I’m here for another Work-In-Progress Wednesday! This time, I’ve got a first look at a new upcoming asset pack, coming late September.

Game UI Pack 1

For the next pack, I’m doing some GUI elements that are useful in pretty much any type of game. I did a few packs like this in the past, but I felt like it was time for some brand new ones!

One of the biggest parts of this asset pack is a collection of meters. They have interchangeable icons and bar colors. They’ll come in two premade lengths (20 bar pellets and 10 bar pellets), and also as split-up segments so you can assemble bars of any length in your game via code or image editing.

A couple different styles of meter will be included, and will come in different color themes for the border. For each style, there’s also a version with no icon spot. Great for either a meter or a progress bar!

Window themes and other standard GUI elements will also be coming your way! They’ll come in a few different designs and color themes.

So far the UI pack is turning out more on the sci-fi side, so I might call it “Sci-fi UI Pack 1” in the end. Also, it’s fun to say out loud!

See you Friday with the release of the fantasy effects pack!

– Will

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Hey everyone, I’m here for another Work-In-Progress Wednesday!

This time I have something a little different for you. I’m sure you’ve all heard of Unity, the popular cross-platform game engine. I’m happy to announce that I’m bringing my pixel art asset collection to Unity, one asset pack at a time!

I’ve been creating a partially-automated workflow to help me easily import my asset packs to Unity, and then I can submit them to the Unity Store. It’s pretty slick!

For example, in the GIF above you can see some effect animations from Super Pixel Impact FX Pack 1 in the running Unity project.

Read on for more…

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Hey everyone, I’m here for a late night Work-In-Progress Wednesday!

Busy week so far with pixel art and more Realm Rumble work. Let’s take a look!

Fantasy FX Pack 1

Magic Burst A

Magic Burst B

Magic Puff A

Spellcast A

Above are four of the first nearly-complete animations from Super Pixel Fantasy FX Pack 1! I’m going for a different style with this one compared to my other effect packs: The main part of each effect is particle-based. This works well for magic effects that require well-defined little sparkles, and I think it gives the animations a slightly more retro vibe. So far it’s been a lot of fun to try something new, and I enjoyed getting some more practice with smoke clouds in Magic Puff A. The rest of the planned animations include another magic puff, a skull-shaped smoke puff, a power-up animation, and three more spellcasts. The spellcast animation above was made with a heal spell in mind, but realistically it could be used for anything! The remaining spells I’ll be taking inspiration from are a buff, debuff, and level up effect. Looking forward to animating more of these!

Read on for more WIP goodness…

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Hey everyone, I’m here for another Work-In-Progress Wednesday!

After Low Rez Jam wrapped up last week, I took a much-needed rest over the weekend… and then got back to work on the game, of course! Here’s a devlog on the progress so far.

Realm Rumble: Road to Version 1.0.0

I was going to do a video announcement for Realm Rumble’s Low Rez Jam release, but I decided to hold off until the next big update, which I want to represent a complete version. If you haven’t played the game yet, grab it here! (For Windows.)
Here’s what’ll be in the next version:

Polished Title Screen

The title screen is no longer just text on a blue background! It now displays a unique level and scrolls through it. While working on it, I accidentally looped from the last level to the title level and was able to play on it. That was a pretty fun bug!

Read on for more great changes… And a lot of behind-the-scenes development pictures!

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Hey everyone! I’m happy to announce that Realm Rumble, the game I made for Low Rez Jam 2023, is released!

Download it here (Windows): https://untiedgames.itch.io/realm-rumble

Read on for more details!