Indie Graphics Bundle - Royalty Free Sprites

I backed the Indie Graphics Bundle when it was a project on Kickstarter, back in the middle of 2012. Like sound tracks on Steam, you are not really buying any sort of application, here. You're buying content that you download through Steam and then access directly. What you'll get here is a wide variety of graphics that can be used in numerous projects in and out of game development. In total, you (currently) will get more than 27,000 images in the colelctive three-pack bundle exceeding 9gb of content. There are a variety of art styles and countless subject matters, so if you take a browse before buying, something is sure to fit your needs. A lot of the work is intended to be mixed and matched, so you can many more whole things out of smaller components. I don't know if I'll use any of the content in a final product, but I find myself referring to the bundle quite often for placement holder art. Incredibly useful if you're a coder and engineer, but not an artist. No more grey blobs or copy pasted clip-art for months, while you wait for your project to reach the point where you can involve an artist. That is also where the cost comes in. Some may see the price (currently $99 USD) and scoff, but I think those people are ignoring that you are given the license to use this in your projects, without paying further for it. Have you ever commissioned artwork? Or even gone to an existing royalty-free clearing house to buy a limited license to some artwork you found on there? They usually come with a lot of strings and you can easily pay $40-100 for just *one* piece of artwork. I paid more than this entire bundle costs, before, just to get a custom avatar drawn (head only). Hell, I paid nearly that much to have my logo (seen attached) designed. In this bundle, I paid maybe half of a penny per image. If you don't know if you need or want this art bundle, then you probably don't. But you [i]know[/i] if you do. And for the price, it's hard to pass up.

Do not pay $99 for this. I feel like an idiot for buying it despite the warnings of others. II bought it on sale for $25 and even that is too much. While I might be able to make use of some of the character sprites as place holders, and some of the gui graphics options, most of this stuff is utter garbage. I mean seriously, there are sprites in here that look like they were drawn quickly by a 5 year old. Really bad stuff. The scenery art is especially atrocious and would be useless in most cases. There are free options that are much better, just google for it. Seriously, don't waste the time.

As a whole the package is a failure. There are a great number of resources, but those resources in many cases are small variations of the same item. As an example you have a spinning item. Each of the images of the spinning item are individual images, but also available in a PSD file (Crysyal Gems). This increases the overall number of images in the set inflating the number dramatically. The Crystal Gems are nearly 1500 images in all. Even the items I would find use for are useless to me becuase of the size of the original images. You can only shrink an image so much before it no longer becomes useful. If I were making a top down tank shooter or space arcade game (over 3,000 ship parts) then this set would certainly be useful, but as is I believe the bundle is trying to be too much, to too many at one time. Attempting to cater to many but serving very few.

Aside from missing a few odds and ends this package already contains an impressive assortment of tools for building many types of games. The space/sci fi kit is huge, it also has things like map builders and "snes looking sprite" character builders. My only complaints are that the game kits are not fully fleshed out, so you will not be able to get 100% of your resources from this. With that said, just some amateur GIMP/Photoshop skills and this package will keep you busy making custom game content. It all fits togethers like legos. I literally just drag drop things into my layout editor. I really like it, and I'm excited that they will add more. Massive space set, great quality, lots of animations, ships, parts, backgrounds, etc all look great at 720p Assortment of things that are not as expansive such as a map builder, rpg icons, some avatars. The only downside is that things aren't fleshed out. Sprites have walk only animations and the ground builders do not match the art style. Creating these things would take considerable work for an amateur. The space kits has more ships than necessary but lacks some things like icons for common gui elements or space inventory. You still have to get your elbows dirty if you're looking to complete a game. If you're sick of being uninspired by using your own programmer art, I highly reccommend this. No worries about licensing, and it's very flexible. At least I'm having fun.

Apesar dos graficos e desenhos serem bons, nenhum combina com outro, se vc usar os personagens não poderar usar as armas pq o grafico deles infeliesmente não combinam, se vc comprar pra complementar algo que vc ja tem pronto, vc pode achar algo, mas se vc compra achando que vai ter tudo que vc precisa, infelizmente isso não e verdade, ja que os desenhos não combinam entre se, e isso que e importante em um conjunto de graficos vendidos juntos, mas infelizmente vc so pode usar uma pasta pro seu jogo, pq as outras pastas não conversam entre si

Un pack con una gran cantidad de gráficos que pueden servirte para diversos propositos. La licencia permite el uso en videojuegos lo cuál es perfecto para mí. Hay imagenes de mucha calidad y puede ahorrar mucho tiempo. Como pega tendría que decir que el programa incrustado no lleva directamente a las imagenes por lo que tuve que acceder desde steam. Recomiendo este pack para programadores que estén desarrollando su propio videojuego y no quieran o puedan realizar sus propias imagenes.

This pack is a MESS! I've read other reviews stating that the files are all over the place and that's pretty much true. There's no logic in the overall system on how the assets are stored, other than a general categorisation, while some assets could also belong to other categories. That means that you need to browse a lot when you're in need of assets for your game. Then the comment that this pack also includes ALL assets from the other 2 packs (Character Creator - Graphics Pack & Space Galaxy - Graphics Pack) which I both reviewed as good. Those 2 packs hold around 6500 assets and this one just a bit over 20K. So for a bit over double the price you get a lot of extra assets! Like those other 2 packs, these assets are NOT meant to copy/paste 1 on 1 into your game (though the platform tiles would allow you to). You do need to put in some extra work to model them into what you want them to be and make the game look more 'your own' than just a cheap copy/paste result with assets that have been used in other games. Couple of (negative) comments on the pack though - Why on earth are there over 1500 assets of crystal gems that are all looking quite the same while it's only 13 different gems? - Why are there hammer parts in the weapon creation pack (good pack in general IMO) while there's no wooden stick to connect them to (can make it myself, but WHY?) - Why make icon packs and give them all different dimensions? - Why make an platform pack that feels incomplete (though in general is well made) Also worth to note, the pack is NOT worth the default price of €135. But I picked it up on the Stream Summer Sale for €34, which is more around the worth of the pack...

It's old design. not good.

Sprites are not bad. These are good, and useful for developers. Also, Price is not too bad when i think free royalty and how many sprites are put in IGB. However, Some folders names are vague (Example as 'Effect2', 'Shot1'). It may be good if they are named more detail (like 'Green color Hit Effect', 'Red color gun shot'). Furthermore, IGB Application in steam isn't useful, Because This app doesn't give any functions to you, If you click 'Open Graphics Folder', this app doesn't open it, just says 'All your files are located in Your Steam/SteamApps/Common Folder or where you had Steam download...'. Anyway, in my opinion, This content is good. If possible, I recommend you buy this when this is in discount sale.