Pixel Art Blue Fireball: Pixel art blue fireball in flight: a white-hot heart in a flickering cyan body with blue flame licks streaming back, embers, sparkles and pressure rings sliding along the tail.

Pixel Art Blue Fireball

Pixel art blue fireball in flight: a white-hot heart in a flickering cyan body with blue flame licks streaming back, embers, sparkles and pressure rings sliding along the tail. Use it as the projectile sprite for blue fire spells and spirit flames; a seamless loop, held in place so the game moves it.

Pixel Art Blue Fireball is a pixel art effect that loops seamlessly every 1 seconds, drawn on a 384 by 384 canvas at 3x pixels. It is built from 7 particle emitters and 4 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, 30 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 1, 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 1 s loop.

Pixel Art Blue Fireball at 8 moments, from 0 s to 0.88 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Pixel Art Blue Fireball is drawn with 4 glowing strokes, lines with a hot core and a soft glow traced along their shapes, plus 7 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: turbulence, particles stretched along their motion and keyframed parameters.

Every layer emits continuously and the 1 s loop closes seamlessly, so it can run for as long as you need. To recolour the line, select "Pressure ring" and change Core and Glow; Start and End set how much of it is drawn. Pixel size in the Pixel art panel sets how chunky it looks. The colour swatches by the downloads recolour every layer at once.

Layers, in draw order

  1. Flame tailparticles / additiveA steady stream of soft glows from a disc. They wander on turbulence, shrink as they age and slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to deep violet over each life.
  2. Flame licksparticles / additiveA steady stream of streaks from a disc. They slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to blue over each life.
  3. Embersparticles / additiveA steady stream of pixels from a disc. They sway from side to side and slow down with drag. Colour runs from white to violet over each life.
  4. Sparklesparticles / additiveA steady stream of sparks from a disc. They swell and then shrink away. Colour: white.
  5. Pressure ring, Pressure ring, Pressure ring +1stroke / additiveA glowing line traced along a circle.
  6. Haloparticles / additiveA steady stream of soft glows. Colours range between blue and cyan.
  7. Bodyparticles / additiveA steady stream of soft glows. Colours range between white and cyan.
  8. Heartparticles / additiveA steady stream of dots. Colour: white.

DETAILS

Length
1 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
384 x 384, pixel art at 3x
Layers
7 emitters and 4 glowing strokes
Blend
Mostly additive (glows)
Colours
whitecyanblueviolet
Sprites
Built-in shapes only
Tags
pixel art, blue fireball, fireball, projectile, blue fire, magic, loop

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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