June 30th, 2026
Featured Post
Nano Banana 2 Lite, Google's Fast Image Model for Pixel Art
Google shipped Nano Banana 2 Lite, a faster and cheaper version of Nano Banana 2. Here's what changed and how it holds up for game sprites and pixel art.
June 22nd, 2026
AI game art vs hiring an artist: the real cost
What you actually trade in money, time, and quality between generating assets with AI, commissioning an artist, and buying asset packs, with real numbers from my own projects.
June 20th, 2026
How to keep your game art consistent with AI
The hardest part of AI game art is making everything match. Here is the system I use, theme, style, references, and presets, so your sprites, animations, and tilesets look like one game.
June 18th, 2026
Is it OK to use AI art in your indie game?
The honest answer to the worries that stop people. Will players hate it, do you own it, can you sell it, and does Steam allow it. General information, not legal advice.
June 16th, 2026
How to make a game when you can't draw
You can code the game, but the art is the bottleneck. Here is how I stopped letting it block my projects, using AI to generate consistent game art, written by someone who can't draw either.
June 15th, 2026
Generate game sprites in OpenCode with the SpriteCook plugin
Add the SpriteCook MCP server and skills to OpenCode with one command, then generate sprites, animations, and tilesets straight from the agent. Setup takes a couple of minutes.
June 14th, 2026
Generate game sprites in Cursor with the SpriteCook plugin
Install the SpriteCook plugin in Cursor with one command, then generate sprites, animations, and tilesets straight from the agent. Setup takes a couple of minutes.
June 13th, 2026
Generate game sprites in Codex with the SpriteCook plugin
Add the SpriteCook plugin to Codex from the plugin marketplace, then generate sprites, animations, and tilesets straight from a chat. Setup takes a couple of minutes.
June 12th, 2026
Dual-grid tilesets, explained
Why autotiling on one grid needs 47 tiles, and how drawing tiles between the cells instead gets perfect corners with 15. With diagrams and the mask table.
June 11th, 2026
The 15-piece autotile tileset, explained
Why autotile sheets have exactly 15 tiles, what each piece does, and how Godot, Unity, and Tiled pick the right one while you paint. With free templates.
June 10th, 2026
Generate game sprites in the Claude desktop app
Install the SpriteCook plugin in the Claude desktop app and generate sprites, animations, and tilesets straight from a chat. Setup takes two minutes.
June 3rd, 2026
Make a Unity autotile tileset with AI and a Tile Palette
Generate a tileset with AI, import the Unity package, and paint a tilemap from the Tile Palette that auto-fills the edge and corner tiles for you. Step by step with screenshots.
June 3rd, 2026
Make a Tiled autotile tileset with AI and the Terrain Brush
Generate a tileset with AI, add the .tsx to your Tiled map, and paint with the Terrain Brush so the edges and corners pick themselves. Step by step with screenshots.
June 3rd, 2026
Make a Godot autotile tileset with AI and paint a map
Generate a tileset with AI, load the Godot .tres onto a TileMapLayer, and paint autotile terrain that picks its own edges and corners. Step by step with screenshots.
June 2nd, 2026
Make a top-down tileset that actually tiles
SpriteCook's tileset mode generates a full 15-piece autotile set from one prompt, laid out so every edge and corner connects when you paint a top-down map.
May 26th, 2026
Prompt Your Character to Do Anything
Add your own animations, pose the first frame, edit every prompt, and pay less when you batch. Here's the new control you get in the Character Creator.
May 7th, 2026
Slice sprite sheets and animations into separate assets
Generate a packed sheet of sprites or frames in one go, then slice it into clean individual assets. Auto detect, fixed grid, custom selection, plus a smart alpha mode for overlapping frames.
April 26th, 2026
Save Your Generation Setup as a Preset
Stop rebuilding the same model, aspect ratio, palette, and style guides every time. Save your setup once, apply it with one click.
April 22nd, 2026
GPT-Image-2 vs Nano Banana 2 for Game Art
OpenAI's GPT-Image-2 just dropped. Here's how it stacks up against Nano Banana 2 on characters, icons, UI, and detailed art.
April 19th, 2026
From Prompt to Animated Character, Step by Step
How to take a character from a one-line prompt to a full animation set, step by step.
April 14th, 2026
How to Nail Tiny Pixel Art Animations
The checkerboard trick for getting clean 16x16 and 32x32 pixel art characters, and how to animate them after.
April 6th, 2026
How to Vibe Code a Browser Game with Phaser.js
A beginner-friendly guide to building a browser game using Phaser.js and an AI coding agent. No prior game dev experience needed.
March 29th, 2026
Let Your AI Agent Generate Sprites and Animations
How to connect your AI coding agent to SpriteCook so it can generate pixel art and animations directly inside your project.
March 23rd, 2026
How to Generate Pixel Art Game Assets with AI
A quick walkthrough of generating pixel art characters, props, and icons from a text prompt, with the key settings that actually matter.
March 22nd, 2026
How to Animate Detailed and HD Art with prompting
How to animate HD illustrations, painted characters, and detailed game art using the /animate page's detailed mode.
March 20th, 2026
Turn Your Pet into a Playable Pixel Art Character
Upload a photo of your dog, cat, or whatever you have. Get back an animated pixel art character you can play with immediately.
March 19th, 2026
Turning Nano Banana 2 AI Images into Actual Pixel Art
How to prompt Google's Nano Banana 2 model for pixel art and fix the output so it's usable in a game engine.
March 16th, 2026
How to Animate a Custom Pixel Art Sprite
Turn any sprite into a custom motion. Works for characters, props, and environment pieces.
November 10th, 2025
Unity Pixel Art Import Settings - Crisp Sprites in Minutes
Configure Unity to render pixel art sharply with correct sprite import, camera, and project settings.