Pixel Pickups, Buffs & UI FX – 17 Animated Effects

17 effects, 22 animations and 246 frames for the rewards and signals that make a game feel good to play.

Bright, readable colours (gold, ruby, mana blue, heal red, XP green) with a dark rim on every ramp, so pickups and status icons read on dark and light backgrounds.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• Coin: spinning loop and a collect pop
• Gem: a floating faceted ruby with a sweeping glint, and a collect burst
• Item pickup: ground ring, column of light and sparkles for any item
• Chest open: rays of light and coins popping out (place it on your chest sprite)
• XP absorb: orbs burst from an enemy and home in on the player
• HP restore: hearts and sparkles rising over a red ring
• Mana restore: blue orbs spiralling up
• Level up: a golden pillar, climbing chevrons and a crown of stars
• Buff auras: attack up, defence up and speed up (loops)
• Status effects: poisoned, burning, frozen, stunned, asleep (loops)
• Checkpoint: activation flare, then an idle loop
• Waypoint marker: a bouncing red arrow over a pulsing ring
• Sparkle: a twinkle overlay for shiny items

READY TO USE

• Every frame as a transparent PNG
• Horizontal strip per animation at 1x and 4x, named _strip<N> for one-drag GameMaker import
• One packed atlas with Aseprite-style JSON (frame rectangles, durations, tags, pivots)
• animations.json with frame size, frame count, fps, loop flag and anchor for every animation
• GIF and APNG previews, contact sheet, and viewer.html to play any animation in your browser

TECHNICAL

• PNG RGBA, alpha only 0 or 255: no blur, no antialiasing
• Frames 16×16 to 64×48 and 48×68 px, 8 to 16 frames, 8 to 14 fps
• 13 seamless loops and 9 one-shots
• Anchor point for every animation (feet, item base or the spot above a head)

HOW TO USE Import with nearest/point filtering, mipmaps off, no compression, and scale by whole numbers. Import notes for Godot 4, Unity and GameMaker are included. The Godot 4 steps were tested with Godot 4.3. For Unity and GameMaker the files were checked against each engine's import rules (strips named _strip<N> split automatically in GameMaker; strips slice cleanly with Unity's Grid By Cell Size); the Unity and GameMaker editors themselves were not run.

LICENSE Use in personal and commercial projects, modify freely. Do not resell or redistribute the files.