Explosion Pixel VFX — 10 Animated Effects

10 explosion effects for your 2D game

Each effect comes as a transparent sprite sheet with a JSON file for frame timing and the pivot point. Import it, set your filter to nearest-neighbour, and it should play at the right speed straight away.

In the download

• 10 sprite sheets (PNG, 811 frames in total)
• JSON for each sheet, in the same format Aseprite exports
• A GIF preview of each effect

Frames run from 112×92 up to 360×300 px. Shorter effects are 30 FPS, longer ones 15 to 20.

Effects list

1. Big Explosion
2. Small Explosion
3. Firework Burst
4. Firework Rocket
5. Implosion
6. Plasma Explosion
7. Smoke Bomb
8. Poof
9. Grenade
10. Barrel Explosion

Engines

Anything that loads a sprite sheet will do: Godot, Unity, GameMaker, Phaser, Defold, LÖVE, Construct. The glow is baked into the colors, so these look best on dark backgrounds. On a bright scene you may want them on a darker layer.

Before you buy

None of these are recolors. The effects are based on the open-source pixelfx library (MIT). Its license is included in the zip.

License

Fine for personal and commercial games and videos, and you don't need to credit me. Please don't resell or share the files as an asset pack.