Neon Text Write-On: Level up text effect for 2D games: gold neon letters write themselves on one after another behind a bright pen, flash and shed sparkles, then fade.

Neon Text Write-On

Level up text effect for 2D games: gold neon letters write themselves on one after another behind a bright pen, flash and shed sparkles, then fade. Seamless loop for RPG and mobile game UI.

Neon Text Write-On is an HD effect that loops seamlessly every 2.6 seconds, drawn on a 512 by 256 canvas. It is built from 1 particle emitter and 2 glowing strokes. Most layers blend additively, so it glows on dark backgrounds.

Colour

Recolours the preview and the free downloads.

Free download with a transparent background, cropped to the effect, 78 frames at 30 fps. Use it in commercial games, no credit needed.

Licence: use it in any project, including paid commercial games such as a game sold on Steam. There is no per-project licence to buy and no credit needed. Terms.

Roblox: the download is a flipbook for a ParticleEmitter. Set FlipbookLayout to Grid8x8, FlipbookMode to OneShot and Lifetime to 2.6, then emit one particle per cycle. Roblox setup.

REMIX WITH AI

Try:

Left empty, it just opens in the agent, free. Each change is one AI build, and you start with free builds.

Engine data for Unity, Godot, GameMaker and Aseprite comes with a plan: open it in the studio.

OPEN IN THE STUDIO

Change the colours, timing or size, or export for Unity, Godot 4, GameMaker, Phaser, PixiJS and Aseprite.

Try variations: new colours, motion and shapes of this effect, free in the studio.

FRAME BY FRAME

8 evenly spaced moments across the 2.6 s loop.

Neon Text Write-On at 8 moments, from 0 s to 2.28 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Neon Text Write-On is drawn with 2 glowing strokes, lines with a hot core and a soft glow traced along their shapes, plus 1 particle emitter. Techniques worth a look: keyframed parameters and post filters (bloom).

It loops seamlessly every 2.6 s, and one layer fires in bursts, so it pulses instead of flowing evenly. To recolour the line, select "LEVEL UP" and change Core and Glow; Start and End set how much of it is drawn. The colour swatches by the downloads recolour every layer at once.

Layers, in draw order

  1. Back glowsprite / additiveA placed glow.
  2. LEVEL UPstroke / additiveA glowing line traced along the outlines of text. Its start and end are keyframed, so it writes itself on and off.
  3. Underlinestroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a path. Its start and end are keyframed, so it writes itself on and off.
  4. Sparklesparticles / additiveOne burst of 36 stars across a box at 1.27 s. They fall under gravity, swell and then shrink away, spin and slow down with drag. Colours range between pale gold and gold.

DETAILS

Length
2.6 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
512 x 256, HD
Layers
1 emitter and 2 glowing strokes
Blend
Mostly additive (glows)
Colours
pale goldgoldorangewhite
Sprites
Built-in shapes only
Tags
level up, neon text, text, write on, banner, ui, rpg, gold, title

USING IT IN YOUR GAME

Phaser, PixiJS
The PNG sheet is a plain grid of frames that both can slice. A TexturePacker JSON atlas comes with a plan, from the studio.
Unity
Import the PNG sheet as a Sprite with Mode set to Multiple and slice it, or open the effect in the studio for a ready-made grid.
Godot 4, GameMaker, Aseprite
Open it in the studio and pick your engine in Export: with a plan, it writes the files that engine imports.
Web and chat
The GIF plays anywhere; the APNG keeps soft edges on any background.
Blend mode
This effect is made of light. For the same glow in your game, draw the sprite with additive blending, or export it on black from the studio for additive shaders.

Step by step: Unity, Godot 4, Roblox, GameMaker, Phaser and PixiJS, Aseprite, Web games (live runtime). Drawn with additive blending: see glow effects without a black box.

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