Jumpstart your game development with the shmup sprites asset packs. Designed specifically for creating top-down or multi-directional shoot-em-ups, these packs provide essential visuals to get your prototype off the ground quickly.

Best of all? It’s FREE and has already received major content updates! Looking for shmup sprites, backgrounds and more as placeholder graphics to prototype your game?

See how these sprites look in a real game:

This asset pack provides essential placeholder graphics perfect for prototyping a multi-directional, a top-down shoot-them-up or any game ideas from scratch.

What you get (total content after updates):

  • Core gameplay: 1 player ship, 11 enemy types (including standard, varied, and ‘snake’ enemies),
  • Combat essentials: Player & enemy bullets, laser weapon, animated explosion, animated impact effect,
  • Interface & items: Gauge bar, bonus pickup, title (‘My game is awesome’=your game), UI board/panel,
  • Environments: 4 unique backgrounds.

Download this game to see exactly how the assets look and feel in a real gameplay environment!

Grab this a free demo game (Windows only) showcasing all these assets working together. Download it here and experience the potential:

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More shmup sprites for oldschool arcade shooter?

Time to bring the joystick back!

Build diverse and atmospheric crash zone environments using seamlessly tileable assets like desert, grass, lava, bridge, craters, destroyed structure, and an iconic crashed spaceship.

32×32 pixel art tileset for shoot ’em ups, or any project demanding a distinct old-school aesthetic:

If you are missing some bonus or items.

Those asset packs are FREE but you can show your support by paying what you think is fair for the graphic assets 🙂