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aka Sprites, sprites, and more sprites! redux. This is a list of free graphics for games. These aren't just restricted to sprites and 2d graphics, 3d is great too (I just don't know of very much). Know of any more good sites? I'll add in suggestions! And frankly I need suggestions, because this list could be much better. [Do note that I'm not especially comfortable with linking to sprites ripped from commercial games that have not been specifically released by their creator(s); I'm looking at you, Megaman sprites.]

 

Reiner's Tilesets

Free sprites, tiles, 3d models, etc. http://www.reinerstilesets.de/

 

Lost Garden

Free graphics from Danc/Lost Garden (very nice stuff!):

background tiles for "a 2D Zelda-like RPG" : http://lostgarden.com/2006/07/more-free-game-graphics.html

sprites for a space game, "a Sinistar clone" : http://lostgarden.com/2005/03/download-complete-set-of-sweet-8-bit.html

"Danc's Miraculously Flexible Game Prototyping Tiles" : http://lostgarden.com/2007/05/dancs-miraculously-flexible-game.html

"Danc's Miraculously Flexible Game Prototyping Graphics for Small Worlds" : http://lostgarden.com/2009/03/dancs-miraculously-flexible-game.html

"Free game graphics: Tyrian ships and tiles" : http://lostgarden.com/labels/Tyrian.html

"250 free handdrawn textures" : http://lostgarden.com/2006/02/250-free-handdrawn-textures.html

"Game Post Mortem: Hard Vacuum" (includes a zip of all game graphics at the end): http://lostgarden.com/2005/03/game-post-mortem-hard-vacuum.html

 

Molotov.nu

Various 2d game sprites & related links : http://www.molotov.nu/?page=graphics

 

SpriteLib GPL

"SpriteLib GPL a collection of static and animated graphic objects ... created to provide hobbyist game developers with an assortment of images to use in their creations." : http://www.flyingyogi.com/fun/spritelib.html

 

Yoyo Games (Game Maker)

list of resources, tutorials, tools : http://www.yoyogames.com/make/resources

 

First Seed Material

" complete set of graphics for low-resolution games. It was originally designed for RPG Maker 2000 ... site is mostly in Japanese, but all important stuff (the graphic descriptions, the license, etc.) are available in English." http://www.tekepon.net/fsm/ (thanks Bearhugger)

 

Free Airplane Sprite Pack

"This free .ZIP contains sprites of various aircraft, including fighter jets, bombers, and cargo planes" by Free Airplane Sprite Pack (double thanks to Prinz Eugn for drawing these and then letting people use them)

 

DAZ 3D Forums -- Free Stuff

forums for posting free 3d models/textures Note, from the forum description: "No items in the Freepozitory can be redistributed in any way without the explicit permission from the creator of the freebie." http://forum.daz3d.com/index.php?c=13 (thanks legalize)

 

OpenGameArt.org

"Free, legal art for open source game projects" (You'll likely want to pay close attention to their licensing, depending on your project goals.) http://opengameart.org/ (thanks lmelior)

 

AI War 2.0 Graphics Library: Free To Use For Indie Developers

"This library contains the graphics for the indie space RTS AI War: Fleet Command, as of version 2.0 of that game. ... you're free to use the graphics in this library for whatever purposes you want. Don't sell these graphics by themselves, but you can include them in your game, your pictures, whatever, and then you can sell your work with this art intact. You can modify them as much as you need for your purposes, as well. ... Just please be sure that you attribute the art to the artist(s) that created it." http://christophermpark.blogspot.com/2009/10/free-graphics-for-indie-developers.html (thanks Lorenzo Gatti)

 

Artwork for the Assemblee Competition

"Artwork and Music by The TIGForums Community Compiled by Derek Yu January 20th, 2010 The artwork and music on this page was created for part one of TIGSource's Assemblee Competition. The goal of this part of the competition was to provide assets for people to make games with in part two. These assets are now provided to the public through the generosity of these talented creators. You may use them for your own non-commercial projects, so long as you credit the creators. All of the assets contained on this page are licensed under this Creative Commons license." http://www.derekyu.com/tigs/assemblee/

 

[Edited by - dbaumgart on January 20, 2010 3:59:37 PM]

First Seed Material

A nice and complete set of graphics for low-resolution games. It was originally designed for RPG Maker 2000, but the license does not restrict its use to that software. The site is mostly in Japanese, but all important stuff (the graphic descriptions, the license, etc.) are available in English.

Airplane Sprites.

Just a little self-promotion...

DAZ 3D Freepositories

Great list, thanks for putting it together!

Be careful if you decide to use Spritelib GPL, I was reading the fine print and the licensing is very confusing. The title says GPL, then the description says it's CPL, but then it says that you can't sell it (which goes against the GPL and CPL), and it also says that you can't distribute it in a game dev tool without written permission (also going against the GPL and CPL). Very odd.

thanks a lot

http://lostgarden.com/2006/02/250-free-handdrawn-textures.html these textures are very beauty!

http://www.imageafter.com - free photos and textures, can be used for personal and commercial use

http://www.lovetextures.com - textures, Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 (although see below)

http://free3dstextures.com - textures, Creative Commons

http://www.openfootage.net - textures, Creative Commons

http://zooboingreview.blogspot.com/ - seamless textures, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0

http://commons.wikimedia.org/ can be a useful source too - obviously less suited for games, but you can be guaranteed it's all under free licences.

http://www.jamendo.com/ - plenty of music under Creative Commons

http://www.freesound.org/ - sounds, Creative Commons

http://free-loops.com - includes many sounds under Creative Commons

Quote: Original post by pinacolada
Be careful if you decide to use Spritelib GPL, I was reading the fine print and the licensing is very confusing. The title says GPL, then the description says it's CPL, but then it says that you can't sell it (which goes against the GPL and CPL), and it also says that you can't distribute it in a game dev tool without written permission (also going against the GPL and CPL). Very odd.

Yeah, I've come across some like this, where they say it's under a free licence, but then elsewhere say something that contradicts the licence. It's very annoying when people do this :( http://www.lovetextures.com which I list above is even worse, it says it's under Creative Commons, but then says "The only exception is that you do not redistribute, sell or host any of the photography" which suggests no distribution is allowed whatsoever (possibly they just mean that they don't want people distributing them as "stock" images, but it's unclear).

Here are my own fantasy / rpg sprites with animations that are freely available for commercial and/or non-commercial games.

Free RPG / Fantasy Sprites


Hope you get much use out of these.
from Matt

Nice list. Always on the lookout for good textures

If anyone needs some free sounds I've got over 300 free loops on LoopArtists

Hi there,

I`m the admin of Reiner`s Tilesets. My webspace has changed. And with that the URL.The link above leads to the subdomain of my ex hoster. And so it becomes invalid in the next days. My new URL is http://www.reinerstilesets.de/

Maybe somebody of the admins can fix the link in the first post so that there is no dead link in the list