Pixel Art Snowstorm: A pixel art snowstorm overlay: snow in three depths drives across the screen and two gusts per loop push it sideways with streaks and pale veils of blowing snow.

Pixel Art Snowstorm

A pixel art snowstorm overlay: snow in three depths drives across the screen and two gusts per loop push it sideways with streaks and pale veils of blowing snow. Tiles in every direction and loops, for winter levels and survival games.

Pixel Art Snowstorm is a pixel art effect that loops seamlessly every 4 seconds, drawn on a 384 by 384 canvas at 3x pixels. It is built from 6 particle emitters.

Colour

Recolours the preview and the free downloads.

Free download with a transparent background, cropped to the effect, 120 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 4, 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 4 s loop.

Pixel Art Snowstorm at 8 moments, from 0 s to 3.5 s

HOW IT'S MADE

Pixel Art Snowstorm is pixel art, drawn at 3x pixels so it sits on the same grid as your sprites, and built from 6 particle emitters. Techniques worth a look: flipbook sprites, particles stretched along their motion and keyframed parameters.

Every layer emits continuously and the 4 s loop closes seamlessly, so it can run for as long as you need. To change its colour, select "Snow veils" in the studio and edit Colour A and Colour B. Size on the same layer sets how big its particles are. 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. Snow veilsparticlesA stream of rings across a box, its rate keyframed over the loop. They play a flipbook animation. Colours range between pale blue and white.
  2. Far snowparticlesA steady stream of image sprites across a box. They drift sideways, sway from side to side and slow down with drag. Colour: blue.
  3. Gust streaksparticlesA stream of image sprites across a box, its rate keyframed over the loop. Colours range between pale blue and white.
  4. SnowparticlesA steady stream of image sprites across a box. They fall under gravity, drift sideways, sway from side to side and slow down with drag. Colour: pale blue.
  5. Near flakesparticlesA steady stream of image sprites across a box. They fall under gravity, drift sideways, sway from side to side and slow down with drag. Colour: white.
  6. Snow crystalsparticlesA steady stream of rings across a box. They fall under gravity, drift sideways, sway from side to side and play a flipbook animation. Colour: white.

DETAILS

Length
4 seconds, seamless loop
Canvas
384 x 384, pixel art at 3x
Layers
6 emitters
Blend
Mostly normal
Colours
whitepale blueblue
Sprites
Built-in shapes only
Tags
pixel art, snow, snowstorm, blizzard, winter, weather, overlay, tileable

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.

Step by step: Unity, Godot 4, Roblox, GameMaker, Phaser and PixiJS, Aseprite, Web games (live runtime).

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