Remember the good old 2D games and their beautiful sprites? With Piskel you can create your own in a few clicks.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Apache-2.0)
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Self-Hosted



Spine is 2D animation software designed specifically for software and game development. Animators, artists and programmers unite to bring your games alive.


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Marionette Studio is a great software, powerful, easy and very intuitive to create 2D animations, characters for video games and more.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Online
- Chrome OS


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An officer editor for Destiny of an Emperor, still under development. DoaE uses officers for both allies and enemies, so this acts as a character editor and enemy editor in one.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Platforms
- Windows



The OHRRPGCE is a free open-source, cross-platform (Windows, Mac and GNU/Linux), and easy-to-use utility with which you can create your own 2D RPG game in a style similar to the classic Final Fantasy games on the NES, SNES and GBA which have so shaped the RPG genre.

Spriter : an intuitive 2D animation tool for video game makers.
Spriter enables the “modular” method of animating where, instead of each frame being a single complete image, it is constructed from many small, re- useable images (such as body parts). Each of these images that ar.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux

SpriteIlluminator lets you easily generate normal maps for your 2d game and web projects. Render dynamic lighting & other effects and use paint tools to directly draw on the normal map and fine tune the effects.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux

Stipple Effect is an scriptable pixel art editor with animation capabilities. It is available on Windows, macOS and Linux.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux



Sprite Something is a drawing, animation and tilemap application for pixel artists and game developers. Draw multiple frames individually, then quickly drag and drop frames into an animation, or use your frames to draw tilemaps for your game levels.



Outsprite is an online toolchain platform that enables you to manage your retro pixel art game assets in one place.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online

Sprite Bump is an advanced 2D Normal Map Generation Tool. It takes in a single 2D image and generates a normal map and optional ambient occlusion map for use in 3D Lighting for realtime Game Engines ( Unreal Engine, Unity etc.
Cost / License
- Paid
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows



A tiny in-browser pixel editor with the Wplace 63/64-color palette. 32×32 / 64×64 canvas, PNG export, no login.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online
Dinopixel is a free, browser-based pixel art creator that lets users draw static pixel images or animated GIF sprites. The intuitive editor includes tools such as pencil, eraser, color picker, mirror drawing, zoom, layers, undo/redo, and more.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Online

Atlased is a sprite sheet and atlas editor for 2D games development, asset preparation pipeline, game jam sessions and etc. It is capable of creating sprite atlases (both images and markup) and performing various editing and export operations.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux


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