Pixel VFX Pack Lite – 5 free pixel-art effects in 3 sizes

Pixel VFX Pack Lite is the free version of the Pixel VFX Pack: 5 animated pixel-art effects, each in 32, 64 and 128 px (15 animations). All effects use one 32-colour palette and hard pixel edges, so they sit cleanly next to your sprites at any integer zoom.

Effects

• Explosion (fire, 12 frames)
• Impact / hit (gold, 8 frames)
• Magic circle (blue, 16 frames, loops)
• Smoke puff (grey, 10 frames)
• Sparkle / pickup (gold, 10 frames)

What is in the download

• Horizontal strip PNG per animation with an Aseprite-style JSON. Phaser 3 loads it with load.aseprite
• Every frame as a single PNG
• Godot 4: SpriteFrames .tres files and a small PixelVFX node that plays an effect and frees it when done
• GameMaker: strips named spr_name_stripN.png, cut into frames on import
• Preview GIFs, the palette (.hex, .gpl, .pal, .png) and an index.json with frames, fps and loop flag

Want more?

The full Pixel VFX Pack has 21 effects in 67 colour variants (201 animations): slash, lightning, heal, portal, shockwave, fireball, ice shatter, teleport beam, aura, energy orb, charge up and more, every effect in 2 to 4 colours, plus RPG Maker MV animation sheets. The last screenshot shows all 21 effects of the full pack.

License

Free to use in your own games and projects, also commercial. Do not resell or share the files themselves as assets; link to this page instead. Full text in LICENSE.txt.

Developed with the help of an AI assistant (Claude by Anthropic). The effects were generated procedurally by code the AI helped write, then reviewed frame by frame and tested by the author.