Retro Arsenal: Sci-Fi Weapon Sprites

Retro Arsenal is a set of sci-fi weapon sprites: a laser pistol, laser rifle, laser shotgun, energy blade and plasma grenade, each in three tiers. That's 5 designs and 15 sprites, all drawn side-on and facing right, in a flat, thick-outline retro sci-fi style. It's not pixel art.

It suits games where weapons get upgraded or drop in different grades, because the three tiers line up exactly. Swap T1 for T2 and nothing moves.

The three tiers

• T1 Scrap: patched plating, tape, loose wiring, dim cells. Looks salvaged.
• T2 Military: olive drab, stencil marks, phosphor cells.
• T3 Prototype: chrome, Googie-style styling, full-bright cells.

Each weapon keeps the same silhouette, grip pivot and "business end" point across its tiers: the muzzle for guns, the blade tip for the sword, the pin ring for the grenade. So a tier upgrade is just a texture swap.

What's in the download

• 15 transparent PNGs, 1024x1024
• 15 SVG sources, one per sprite, so you can recolor them or make your own tiers and faction variants
• A 4096x4096 atlas plus a JSON file (TexturePacker JSON hash format) with pivot and muzzle/tip coordinates for every frame
• A preview sheet and a README

There's no baked-in shadow or glow, so your engine's lighting can handle that. The sprites are static, so there's no animation. I'd suggest 256 pixels per unit, which makes each sprite 4 units across, but set it to whatever suits your project.

Things worth knowing

• It's five designs in three tiers, not fifteen different weapons.
• I haven't tested the atlas in an actual Unity, Godot or Phaser import yet. The format is one those pipelines commonly read, but check your first import. If something's off, tell me. The individual PNGs work fine without the atlas.
• Sprites face right, so mirror them in your engine for left-facing.
• The art was made with AI assistance. The sprites are drawn by code that an AI model wrote, and I've ticked the AI disclosure on this page.

License

Use the assets in as many personal or commercial projects as you like, free or paid. Edit, recolor and resize them however you want. Credit is appreciated but not required. Don't resell or redistribute the assets themselves, on their own or inside another asset pack, and don't claim you made the original artwork. The full text is in LICENSE.txt.

This is v0.3, and updates are free if you've bought it.