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How many items are in the character maker?

• 3 body types: average, dainty and heavy in 10 colours each.
• 13 outfits in 5 different colours per body type.
• 11 hairstyles in 8 different colours per body type.
• 7 headgears in 5 different colours - only some modified for dainty body type because the rest fit all body types equally.
• 13 Accessories, some with different colours, some modified to match different body types, some not (as above)

If you don't account for different colours & body types the possible combinations are in the 10s of 1000s, if you do they're in the millions.

And can we easily modify the tool to add original assets?

Not at the moment. All of the character pieces are provided in the pack separated from each other (bodies, clothes, etc.) so you can edit them in another program to make your own characters - but the Character Maker itself has those pieces hard baked into it, so you can't add your own pieces to it. If that's something people would like I'll put it on the to-do list.

Are the characters from the tool designed to fit both the adventure tile set and the RPG one?

Yes they are both 16 x 16 in tile size and the characters are 16 x 16 too. Although, the adventure tile set specifically uses a GBC colour palette because it's sort of inspired by the GB Zelda games. Recolouring the sprites to match it wouldn't be too difficult though!

Get all 10,000+ Chequered Ink Game Assets in a single download, for commercial use in all your projects. Includes thousands of sprites across a variety of genres as well as hundreds of sound effects. 50% off for launch!

💝 Contents

• 4,708 HD Graphics Assets
• 4,574 Pixel Art Assets
• 792 Audio Files
• 35 Models
• 1 Font
• Plus more assets as we release them in future!

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• Contains all of our freely available Game Assets across a variety of genres including Platformer, Adventure, Puzzle, RPG and Board Games.
• Contains exclusive extra assets & variations only available in this pack.
• All assets share a consistent colour palette and style.
• Commercial use in an unlimited number of projects.
• 100% human-made, no AI 🚫 
• New content will be added free to all existing customers as we release new packs.

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You may use the game assets for ANY and ALL uses including commercial use, with or without giving credit, except that you may not sell or redistribute the unaltered assets as your own game assets.

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10,000 Game Assets by Chequered Ink

They are generally made with a 16 x 16 tile size in mind, with tiles, characters and other sprites conforming to this size.

There are some sprites that are bigger than that, depending on their use cases.

We don't currently have a preview tool or anything for them. You can scroll through our fontspace account to see each font in a big list if that helps: https://www.fontspace.com/chequered-ink

Is there any way you can email us more detail like some kind of video or mock up image of the mechanic you're talking about to make sure we understand it fully? Our email is support@chequered.ink

Some are .ttf some are .otf

There's a sale on right now, in case you're still interested :)

Thanks so much! :)

Thank you :)

There is a slight difference between the two - definitely more than "a pixels difference" (see image below) but we appreciate that this may be problematic in your designs. We'll take the feedback on board and update it in a future version.

I just whipped this up quickly in GameMaker. The Indoor tiles have various dungeon-like walls and floors - and I've thrown the player sprite and a couple of enemies on there too.

Since there are only two of us in our team, and we are both on public record tens of times as saying that it's perfectly fine to do this, you can feel free to just go ahead and ship otf/ttf files with your game. And anyone who wants 100% peace of mind / concrete legal evidence can ask us for a signed letter saying so.

I will look into clarifying the wording in the license, there is clearly a balance to be struck to protect both our rights & our user's rights, but we have been letting people ship otf/ttfs with their games for 10 years now so I hope that gives you some trust in us in the mean time.

Just to be clear: You can ship the font files with your game. People have asked us this on numerous occasions and we always say yes! please do!

The terms of the license do say don't redistribute the font files - that's more to prevent people from uploading them to font websites and stuff without our permission.

Anyone who's worried and wants permission in writing can always get in touch with us and we'll be happy to provide it :)

A small handful of the fonts support Cyrillic, such as "Squirk" and "Ninteteen Ninety Three",  we don't add it to every font because there are only two of us and neither of us speak a language which uses Cyrillic characters - so it's a lot more work to make sure it's readable to native speakers & we don't always have the resources to do it. We're always looking to improve the selection of languages we support though so we'll take your feedback on board!

For the very small handful that are inspired by existing brands / products, I would probably avoid using them for anything commercial just to be safe?

That said, they are distinct, different fonts built by us from the ground up. Technically there should be no problem, but you know how these things go.

Thanks for grabbing the pack! The pack itself is separated by style, although you would then have to double-click fonts to get a proper look at them. We haven't come up with a better way of sorting or previewing them yet, sorry - after a quick search we found this which might be helpful? FontBase — a Free, Beautiful, and Fast Font Manager

That's great! We're glad to be working with Kenney on bringing this to more people :)

1. If we needed to check if someone has a license, in the first instance we would just ask nicely to see some proof or something. Often we don't really need to, though. Either we already have an inkling who has it (because this is a very close-knit community) or sometimes people just come and tell us when they're using our stuff anyway! (we love to see our fonts being used)

2. Yes you can. We periodically add all of our new fonts to the pack (the last time we did so was September 4th) so even if you find a newer font on dafont or fontspace, it just means we haven't gotten around to putting it in the pack yet and you can just go ahead and use it. 

3. Yes, see above. (Unless we release a font and explicitly state that's it's not for commercial use or something. But this literally only applies to like 3 fonts we've released in the last 10 years,)

The whole license is "You may use these game assets for ANY and ALL uses including commercial use, with or without giving credit, except that you may not sell or redistribute the unaltered assets as your own game assets."

We haven't picked a pre-existing license for our assets.

Thanks, we like it too!

Thank you so much it's great to hear that and we'd love to see your game when it's done! Please stay in touch with us and show us the game, if you have a bluesky account or a mailing list do let us know so we can follow you.

We had the game all planned out, and we had a lot of fun making all the graphics (we did them before even doing any code)... but adventure games of this scale take a long time to make as I'm sure you know from making your own! So we had to move on to other work to keep money coming in, and never got back to working on this one project.

Nowadays we're heading in a direction where we're making lots of free game assets, so it seemed right to post these and hope that someone like you would make a wonderful new game with them :)

Thank you :)

Thanks :)

Thanks, hope you enjoy!

thank you :)

Over 1,400 sprites for use in your top-down adventure games, with a tile size of 16 x 16 and a limited retro color palette for that authentic feel.

This pack was originally designed for a game about the Aztec princess Papantzin, who would go on a quest to calm various Aztec deities who had become angered (hence the theme of some of the characters and enemies).

We made every graphic you would ever need to finish a game of this type... and then decided to release it for you to use in your own projects instead!

Check it out here :) 8-bit Adventure Pack by Chequered Ink

Yes we added them to the pack yesterday! :)

You're welcome! The game looks like fun, when I get some time I'll have to play through the tutorial since I've never played a real life game of cribbage before :O

Thanks for letting us know, you're welcome!

Hiya - all our newest fonts are included in the All Fonts Pack license, although the AFP download itself may not have yet been updated to include them. By all means download those newer fonts from FontSpace or DaFont and use them in the same commercial ways, regardless of when you purchased AFP!
(We generally save the AFP  download updates for several fonts in a row due to our frequent releases of new ones)

Newest fonts we have made that were released since AFP but are still licensed by it: Moustache You; Half Myself; Manic Germanic; Swansong; Blaze of Glory; Spirit Fox; Spiced Rum Supernova; Tiny and Chunky; Punk Metal; The Visitor; Devious Road; Robinson Pleasure; Cynosure; Liquid Crystal Decay; Overthrow Oligarchy; Guardian Angle; Nuchileda; CI GameDev 16px; Tempter; Bees Chubees; Infinitely Grateful; Riot City Revolts!.

A great pack of songs, big sci-fi vibes and they range from calm for menus, exploration segments in games etc. to pretty hectic and full-on for boss fights, scrolling shooters, or whatever!

Some of our fonts do, some don't. If you go to our dafont profile with accents turned on & preview set to show the umlauts you can get a list of the fonts from the pack that support them: https://www.dafont.com/chequered-ink.d6231?text=%E4%F6%FC%DF&a=on

This link will show all the fonts that support those characters to varying degrees.

Thank you so much for playing, we're glad you enjoyed the game!

Your critiques are all perfectly valid and much appreciated, and we'll use that feedback in future to improve the game in future. Mostly they boil down to "we made this game in 2 weeks" and given more time we will absolutely be able to improve on it! The mute button for example was put in right at the last minute before our anniversary came along haha

Much appreciated that you took the time to do this video!!

Thanks for the feedback! For this game we were going for a sort of "family board game night" vibe which doesn't give itself over much to deck-building (like a TCG), but the feedback is useful moving forward we will try to rebalance the RNG.

Celebrate 10 years of Chequered Ink with our new card game Decadence! Collect 20 gold pieces before your opponent or knock them down to zero hp to win.

The game is simple yet features some surprisingly deep strategies, with characters, locations and items all based on our games and fonts we released over the last decade. Enjoy!

Play here: Decadence by Chequered Ink

Ah thank you so much, it's funny to see what you made with it. This font is one of our earlier ones, I didn't realise it was missing the ' character to be honest! I will add that to our list of things to update, thanks for letting me know.

Hi there, thank you for the kind words! Yes you can use them for commissions - as long as the graphics you make for the client are hard-baked when you hand them over (as in, they wont have access to the ttf or otf file of the font.)

Thank you for the suggestion of extra content too - we'll take that on board since we're always adding new fonts to the pack :)

We're always looking to make our stuff accessible to more people, follow us on Blue Sky for any updates of deals we might have in future.

follow us on BlueSky (or Facebook, or Patreon or wherever you follow people) as we will post about any future deals there :)

We are always looking for ways to make our stuff accessible to as many people as possible - and we have run this discount before.

My advice would be to follow us on BlueSky (or Facebook, or Patreon or wherever you follow people) as we will post about any future deals there :)