ARCBIT Lite - 3 Free Pixel FX: Laser, Zap & Orb (sprite sheets)

Launch sale: the full pack is 25% off until Oct 15 ($3.99 → $2.99). It adds 13 more effects (lightning, heavy, pulse, spiral and tractor beams, strike, aura, shockwave, tesla orb and more) in 7 colour themes.

A free sampler of ARCBIT: hard-edged pixel-art beams and electric effects as PNG sprite sheets, for any engine.

The included Godot 4 project was tested on Godot 4.4.1 and 4.7.2 with Forward+, Mobile and Compatibility: zero errors and zero warnings.

What's inside

• Laser beam (modular): start, tiling body and end, with charge, on, loop and off animations. Set any length
• Zap: electric hit impact
• Orb projectile: looping electric ball in 8 directions
• 2 sizes of each (drawn natively), blue and red
• PNG strips, every frame as a PNG, Aseprite-style JSON (durations, tags, pivot), GIF previews
• Godot 4.4+ project with SpriteFrames, a beam node and a demo. Tested on 4.4.1 and 4.7.2 with zero errors

License

Free for commercial and non-commercial projects, no credit required. Don't redistribute the pack itself.

The full pack

ARCBIT Vol.1 has 16 effects (6 modular beams including lightning, heavy, pulse, spiral and tractor beams, plus strike, sparks, aura, charge, shockwave, crackle, tesla orb and more) in 7 colour themes.

How it was made

Every frame is drawn by my own Python program. No AI-generated images and no third-party art. The code and docs were written with the help of an AI coding assistant.

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