ANIPIXELS
Free tool

VFX sprite sheet player: 8 free game effects

Play the 8 sprite sheets of the Crisp Juice free sampler on a canvas: a gem burst, a match pop, star and coin bursts, confetti, a shockwave ring, a tap ripple and a looping sparkle. Change the speed, loop, blend mode and background, step through the frames, and click the stage to spawn the effect where you click.

Frame 1
30 fps
Background

Selected sheet

Name
Grid
Length
Flags
File

The whole sheet. The outlined cell is the frame being drawn.

The 8 sampler effects

EffectFolderFramesCellGridLoopAdditive
gem_burst_blueGems20192 px8 x 3nono
match_pop_pinkGems16192 px8 x 2nono
star_burst_goldRewards24192 px8 x 3nono
coin_burst_goldRewards30256 px8 x 4nono
confetti_burst_01Celebration36256 px8 x 5nono
ring_shockwave_whiteImpacts16192 px8 x 2nono
tap_rippleImpacts14192 px8 x 2nono
sparkle_twinkle_white_loopMagic24192 px8 x 3yesyes

Values are copied from the sampler's sheets.json. All eight are drawn for 30 frames per second.

How to use it

  • Pick an effect above. It plays in the middle of the stage; click or tap anywhere on the stage to spawn more copies.
  • Drag the frame slider to step through the frames one by one. Speed changes the playback rate from 1 to 60 frames per second.
  • Additive blending adds the effect's colours to the background, which suits glows and sparkles on dark backgrounds. The player starts each sheet with the blend mode its sheets.json entry asks for.
  • Keyboard: K plays or pauses, Left and Right change effect, and Enter on the stage spawns a copy.
  • In your own engine, slice the sheet as a grid with the cell size shown and play the frames left to right, top to bottom. The code box shows the frame arithmetic.

About the effects

These are the 8 sprite sheets of the Crisp Juice free sampler, unchanged: transparent PNGs with straight alpha. The sampler on itch.io also includes sheets.json and a Godot 4 project with a scene per effect. The full pack has 68 effects and is sold on itch.io; it is not on this site.

Licence: Use the effects in any number of commercial or non-commercial projects (games, apps, websites, videos, streams, game jams). Edit, recolour, resize or otherwise modify them. Credit is appreciated but never required. You may not resell, redistribute or give away the effects themselves, on their own or as part of another asset pack, modified or not, and you may not claim them as your own original work in an asset pack.

Every frame is drawn by code that was written with the help of Claude, an AI assistant. No AI image generators, no traced or third-party art.