Procedular pixel-art spaceship creator 🚀

Pixelship is a free procedural spaceship generator that runs in your browser. It makes top-down pixel-art spaceship sprites for 2D games and exports them as PNG sprite sheets you can drop straight into your engine.

Seven ship families

Interceptors, dreadnoughts, mantas, organic hive craft, angular shards and radially symmetric alien designs — each one a different region of the same 33 controls. Hit randomize, lock the ships you like so re-rolls skip them, then tune silhouette, wings, lighting and colour.

What you get

• 33 live controls — silhouette, wings, the automaton itself, lighting, hardpoints and colour. Every one of them changes the output.
• Looping animation — engine exhaust, throttle, running lights and banking poses. Exported strips loop seamlessly by construction.
• Size independence — 16 to 96 px, and a seed keeps its design at every size. Prototype small, export large.
• Sprite sheet export — each row a bank pose, each column an animation frame, plus a fleet sheet for a whole squadron in one file.
• A saved library — bookmark a ship and it comes back exactly, because what is stored is the recipe, not an image.

Draw your favourite shape

Sketch a silhouette and it gets everything a generated one gets: thrusters and guns detected from the shape itself, lighting, palette, banking poses and sprite-sheet export. Mirrored as you draw, with a live preview of the finished ship

 

Live demo 

Interactive sprites demonstration: https://stmn.itch.io/pixelship-sprites-demonstration

License

Free to use, including in commercial projects. No credit required, but if you ship something with these sprites in it, please drop a link to your game in the comments.