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[v1.3.13] Aseprite – Animated sprites & pixel art editor

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Aseprite (full name: Allegro Sprite Editor) is a lightweight application dedicated to making pixel-style animation. Its function is basically like similar software, such as brush, onion skin, animation frame editor, etc. Here, AppNee recommends 2D pixel/retro style game character designers to try it.

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Graphic & Image

[v2025.0] Pixelmash – Transform picture into resolution-independent, non-destructive pixel art

Pixelmash is a cross-platform pixel art editor that is perfect for retro-style 2D video game projects. It can easily create pixel art from photos, sketches, or scratches on Windows and Mac platforms, specially developed for 2D game makers, pixel artists, pixel hobbyists, and any lovers of the 8-bit and 16-bit eras.

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Industry & Professional

[v8.0.11] Pro Motion NG – More than a suite of tools for creating pixel art and animations

Pro Motion NG is an excellent pixel drawing and animation software developed by cosmigo from Germany, whose design is similar to the famous Deluxe Paint (DPaint) on Amiga OS. Not only is it ideal for artists who create detailed and pixel-accurate graphics for mobile games and portable game consoles, it is also ideal for creating lightweight graphics for Web or Web-based applications and games.

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[ Mobile ]

[v3.57] Draw Pixel Art – Quickly and easily create pixel art images and animation

Draw Pixel Art is a simple and easy-to-use raster graphics editor specially made for Android platform, developed by Decipixel Games from Russia. It’s optimized for working with pixel precision images (pixel art design), and comes with the ability to create animations and work with sprite-sheets.

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Shoot 'Em Up

[v1.4.5] Police Stories – 2D shooter game that emphasizes on tactics and forces

Police Stories, SWAT series, Door Kickers series, and Rebel Cops are all top-down shooter games in the “player plays the role of a police officer” type. Thereinto, Police Stories is the most mature one, developed by HypeTrain Digital from Cyprus. It looks like a very interesting role-playing journey, has a good sense of substitution, combines real-time action and strategic systems, and has seemingly randomly generated but actually thoughtfully designed levels.

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[ Mac Software ], Graphic & Image

MagicaVoxel – 8-bit voxel art editor and interactive path tracing renderer

Voxel (short for voluempixel) refers to the smallest unit of the world that is made up of objects rendered in three dimensions, which can be cube, sphere, cylinder and many other basic geometries, as well as the iteration forms of complex geometry. When it comes to voxel games, the representative work is of course the well-known sandbox game Minecraft, in which the entire game world was created using voxels.

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