About Spritory

Indie game development stalls on assets. Most developers can design a game, write the code, and ship the build — but they can't draw. Or they can draw a bit, but not consistently. Their knight looks different from their goblin. Their new tiles don't match the old ones. Every asset update feels like starting over.

The solutions available today are either too manual (Aseprite, Photoshop), too unpredictable (AI image generators, where you reroll until something looks right and the next asset doesn't match), or too expensive (hiring artists, buying asset packs that rarely fit together).

Spritory is a compiler for game art. You define a style profile — a five-shade color ramp per material, a light direction, outline, dither and texture rules. Then you assemble assets out of primitive shapes (blobs, capsules, boxes), tagging each one by material: foliage, wood, stone, metal, cloth, skin, creature, accent. The profile handles the rest — shading, color, outlines, texture. You never pick a color.

Swap the profile and every asset you've built recompiles. Extract a profile from a reference image, and new assets match art you already have. Consistency is a property of the system, not a manual discipline.

Think of the left side as structure (HTML) and the right side as style (CSS). The same shapes compiled through different profiles produce entirely different-looking art. That separation is the core idea.

Today that covers two editors. The Sprite Forge builds props, scenery and items — bushes, trees, rocks, crates, swords, potions, mushrooms, and whatever else you assemble from those shapes. The VFX Forge compiles effects through the same profile: fire, explosions, slashes, sparkles, heal auras, muzzle flashes. Characters and autotiled tilesets aren't there yet — they're what we're building next.

Spritory is not an AI image generator. There is no model in the loop at all. The Forge is a deterministic renderer — the same source and the same profile always produce exactly the same pixels — and it runs entirely in your browser. No credits, no quota, no waiting, no rerolling until one output happens to look right. Nothing you build is sent anywhere to be drawn.

It's also not a pixel editor for drawing from scratch. If you want to paint sprites by hand, Aseprite is the right tool. Spritory is for developers who want to define rules and have art produced from those rules.

The primary audience is indie game developers who can't draw well but want high-quality, consistent 2D assets without the cost of hiring an artist. A secondary audience is experienced pixel artists who want to work faster — define a style once and produce variations at scale.

Spritory scales with skill level. A developer with no art background can start from a stock template, an art style and a stock profile, and drag shapes around. A more skilled artist can author custom profiles, tune ramps and light direction by hand, and extract a profile from art their game already has.