Sprite Editors

Spritesheets

Tiled

• Tiled: main website
• Simple Tiled Implementation: map loader and renderer designed for the LÖVE framework
• Tiled Tutorials
• Using Tiled Maps in LÖVE

Unity3D

• PrettyPoly: open-source, layer-based, polygon drawing toolkit for quickly creating 2D levels

Pixel Editors

• Piskel: a free online editor for animated sprites & pixel art
• Universal LPC Sprite Sheet Generator: character sprite sheet for games using 100% open art
• Lospec: free pixel art program that you can use right here in your web browser
• SpriteStack: voxel editor suited for 2D artists
• Dither Machine: a tool to help you generate dithering automatically
• Smear FX: make your animations extra juice by adding some smearing to them
• Juice FX: flash, scale, skew, shake, wobble, jump, wave even you can add an outline effect with any disered color

Level Editors

• Ogmo: open source, project oriented level editor
• LDtk: An open-source 2D level

Palettes

• Palette List: a database of palettes for pixel art
• Paletton

Tools

• ShoeBox
• TexturePacker
• Leshy Spritesheet Tool: an HTML5 tool for creating, packing, and modifying sprite sheets and texture atlases
• Leshy Spritesheet Animator: an HTML5 tool for previewing and testing sprite sheet animations
• Sprite Sheet Decomposer: this component will help you decompose your sprites into individual frames
• Dither Machine: a tool to help you generate dithering automatically, instead of doing it by hand
• Png Crusher: tool to compress your PNG files to a smaller size

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