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Ripped sprite sheets from thousands of games, sorted by console — half reference library, half nostalgia trap.
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The Spriters Resource sits in Pixel Art under Make, filed as rabbit hole.
About this category: Sprite editors and pixel canvases. The limited grid does most of the design work for you, which is why beginners' output looks good immediately.
Yes. The Spriters Resource is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use The Spriters Resource without signing up for anything.
Not well. We file The Spriters Resource as desktop only, so open it on a laptop or desktop computer.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "Rabbit hole": Clear your evening. We warned you.
Pixel canvas designed for thumbs first, fed by a huge stream of daily themed drawings from a mostly Japanese community.
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A shared Unix server where members publish plain HTML pages under their usernames. Started as an experiment in 2014 and still going.
A photograph from the last century that you place on both a map and a timeline, which is much harder than either alone.
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