Make a 2D top-down pixel game
A top-down pixel-art adventure or RPG with menus, controller prompts and a terminal-style font, to sell.
For a solo developer making an overhead pixel game in any engine. The world art is 16x16 and drawn in 3/4 view: the ground seen from above, buildings and characters shown from the front. See Gaps for a straight-down view.
What this stack owes
No credit needed
9 picks: Ninja Adventure, Kenney Tiny Town, Kenney Tiny Dungeon, Kenney Input Prompts, Kenney UI Pack, Abstraction Music Loop Bundle, Kenney Interface Sounds, VT323, Tiled Map Editor.
Art
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Characters, monsters and a starter world
CC0 · commercial OK · verified 2026-08-15 (41d ago)
One 16x16 pack with 50+ characters, 30+ monsters, bosses, tiles, UI, effects, 100+ sound effects and 37 music tracks; characters face four directions.
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Town tiles
CC0 · commercial OK · verified 2026-09-22 (3d ago)
130 tiles for an overworld town: houses, roofs, fences, trees, paths and a few villagers.
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Dungeon tiles
CC0 · commercial OK · verified 2026-07-19 (68d ago)
130 dungeon and sewer tiles: floors, walls and props, also 16x16.
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Controller prompts
CC0 · commercial OK · verified 2026-08-15 (41d ago)
1500+ button glyphs at 64x64 plus vectors, covering Xbox, PlayStation, Switch, Steam Deck, keyboard, mouse and touch.
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Menus and HUD
CC0 · commercial OK · verified 2026-07-19 (68d ago)
430 buttons, panels and sliders.
Audio
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Music
CC0 · commercial OK · verified 2026-08-29 (27d ago)
200+ loops, for more music than the 37 tracks in Ninja Adventure.
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Menu sounds
CC0 · commercial OK · verified 2026-08-24 (32d ago)
100 interface and button clicks for dense menus and HUD feedback.
Fonts
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Terminal-style text
SIL OFL · commercial OK · verified 2026-08-24 (32d ago)
A CRT terminal-style monospace for debug overlays, hacking UIs and HUD text.
Tools
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Map editor
GPL-2.0-or-later · commercial OK · verified 2026-09-22 (3d ago)
A tilemap editor for ortho, isometric and hex maps. Read the entry before shipping any of Tiled's own code inside your game.
Gaps
- No straight-down character set that turns in four directions. The two four-direction sets in the catalog, Ninja Adventure and the ArMM1998 Zelda-like set, are both 3/4 view (ledger, 2026-09-23).
Stack walked 2026-09-25. Each licence is only as current as its entry's verified date.