Pixel Spooky FX – 17 Animated Pixel Art Effects

17 hand-tuned spooky visual effects: 19 animations and 216 frames of crisp pixel art, plus the dark bolt in 4 directions.

Give your horror, dark-fantasy, RPG or platformer game the moments that sell it: a soul torn out of a fallen enemy, a curse landing with a crack of violet shards, a ghost dissolving into the air, an eye tearing open in the dark. Made to sit next to the LESED Halloween packs (https://lesed.itch.io/halloween-pixel-pack), useful all year round.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• Spirit wisp: a wandering spirit (loop)
• Soul absorb and soul release: soul fragments spiral into a core, a soul rises out of a body and fades
• Curse impact: gathers, flashes, bursts into flying violet shards
• Dark bolt and impact: black-core projectile (loop, in 4 directions) and its splat
• Spectral vanish and spectral appear: a ghostly figure dissolves upward, a rift opens and a figure steps out
• Ember burst: a fire burst that rolls into smoke, with falling embers
• Ghost fire: green spirit flame (loop)
• Poison cloud: bubbling toxic cloud (loop)
• Rune circle: an occult circle that draws itself and ignites, plus an idle loop
• Spirit ward: a protective ward with circling spirit flames (loop)
• Shadow tendrils: tendrils lash out of a pool of darkness
• Eye reveal: an eye tears open in the dark, plus a blinking idle loop
• Hit spark: a fast melee impact star
• Floating motes: ambient magic dust (loop)

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: frame size, frame count, fps, loop flag and anchor point for every animation
• GIF and APNG preview of every animation, 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 24×24 to 48×48 px, 6 to 16 frames, 8 to 16 fps
• 8 seamless loops and 11 one-shots with a clear start, peak and end
• Dark rim on every colour ramp, readable on dark and light backgrounds
• Anchor point for every animation (impact point, feet, projectile tip)

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.