GainPips draws and creates game assets for game studios and solo developers: complete, consistent pixel art packs in one style, ready to drop into your management, tycoon and simulation games.
Pixel art asset packs drawn in one style, with one camera and one palette, so the packs combine, and a ready-made kit for building tycoon games.
Christmas decorations for 32px top-down shops: trees and lights that twinkle, garlands, gifts, a drinks cooler and a festive corner kit, plus Santa and an elf. Festive outfit layers for the cast of our three shop packs (sold separately).
A whole hospital: walls, doors and floor, 104 objects in 9 categories, and an animated doctor, nurse and patient who sit, lie, work and queue.
A whole bubble tea shop: walls, a glass door and floor, a drink station from order to pickup, tables and seats, and 5 animated staff and customers who work, queue and sit.
A whole convenience store: walls, doors and floor, stocked shelves, fridges, a checkout and a stockroom, and 4 animated staff and shoppers who scan, restock and shop.
A working HTML5 business-simulation kit: build your own tycoon game without writing the simulation from scratch.
We also make mobile games. Find them on Google Play.
Ideas, layouts and how-tos for 32px top-down games.
The code is the quick part now. Here is what the art for one small shop game really adds up to, and why a finished $1.99 pack beats spending your tokens on it.
Read the postA practical plan for a Christmas event in a tycoon or shop game: pick a size you can ship, add mechanics that reuse your loop, and keep a decorated 32px room easy to read.
Read the postY-sorting handles walking past furniture, but not sitting in it. Where to put the sort point, why seats break the rule, and the front-overlay draw order that works in every direction.
Read the postOur programming channel: visual guides to algorithms and problem-solving patterns, each a video and a written walkthrough.
