Music Game Sprites
High resolution sprites for use in your music games and other projects – there are a total of 43 sprites in this pack.
LATEST POSTS
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Status Effects & Their Synonyms
Status Effects are the spice that stops RPGs turning into a boring slugfest. Get inspired with our list of status effects and their synonyms.
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New Pixel Art Platformer Tile Sets
We’ve been working on a Pixel Art Platformer Kit as a counterpart to our existing 2D Platformer Pack which uses HD assets.
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Game Ideas: Scribble Quiz
This idea is a party game for 2-4 players, gathered around one screen, based on drawing and guessing.
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Card Games Graphics Pack Updated
We’ve updated our Card Game Graphics Pack with 95 new sprites, more than doubling the original size of the pack!
RPG Character Sprites
Retro pixel art RPG Characters for use in your games and other projects. There are a total of 39 characters in the pack, with 12 frames of animation and 1 sprite sheet each for a total of 507 assets.
Our Plans For 2026
Happy New Year everyone! We hope you had an excellent holiday season and a good start to 2026. These are challenging times and we want to enter the year with a sense of hope, and a real drive to offer as much as we can to the community.
Merry Christmas from Chequered Ink
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Festive Season from both of us here at Chequered Ink.
Winter Sales Now On Steam, Nintendo Switch
Our Winter Sale has now extended to our games on Steam and Nintendo Switch, where you can get up to 90% off.
50% Off Our Games in the Itch Winter Sale
Continuing our series of winter sales, you can now get 50% off a selection of our games on itch.io in the Winter Sale.
Puzzle Game Idea: Town Shift
It’s time for a new game idea! Today we’re looking at a puzzle game I came up with called Town Shift.
Do we need a new word for Indier-than-Indie?
Why did the term indie games come into use in the first place, and how do we cope with the huge shift in its meaning?
Everything we did in 2025
Back in January we set out our plans to make lots of new assets & tutorials, create more fonts and release at least two new games. Find out how we met those goals and more in a journey through everything we did in 2025.
Fix Input Lag on Android in GameMaker HTML5 Games
The other day we released updates for several of our web games fixing a pretty critical bug on Android. Here’s how we fixed it, with a code snippet helpfully provided by SnoutUp Games!
Share to Social Networks from GameMaker Games
If your game has a social aspect, such as high scores or challenges, you may want your players to be able to share their progress on social media. We’ve come up with a convenient script for the job called gm_share.
32 New Winter Icons
We’ve added 32 new winter icons to our Inventory Icons Pack, partly as a big thank you for the positive response to our 10,000 Game Assets pack since last week!
Winter Sales: One Week Left For All Fonts Pack Discount
There’s one week left to get our All Fonts Pack at a 90% discount in our Winter Sale. The pack contains over 1200 commercial use fonts and is usually priced at $190. You can get it for just $19 until December 15th.
Mobile HTML5 Games Given New Lease of Life
We’ve updated four of our mobile HTML5 games to improve performance – especially on Android devices. You can play them all here!
2.5D in GameMaker using Sprite-Stacking
There’s an age-old question among GameMaker users who’ve chosen the tool for its simplicity. How do I make a 3D game in GameMaker? Then you find out you need to know quite a lot of maths and how to draw primitives and vertices and you ask yourself the next question. How do I make a sort of 3D game in GameMaker, but like, easily?
Chequered Ink launches pack of 10,000 game assets to combat the rise of generative AI
At Chequered Ink, we’re launching a pack of 10,000 game assets across a variety of genres to give budding developers an alternative to AI.
10,000 Game Assets Pack
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.
Bristol Indie Developers’ Playtest Party Was A Roaring Success
Yesterday I took part in Bristol Indie Developers’ 2nd Anniversary Playtest Party at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. I was showing our upcoming puzzle game Nildigo, which you can wishlist now on Steam!
Board Game Pieces Graphics Pack
High resolution board game sprites for use in your games and other projects – there are a total of 200 sprites in this pack.
16px Control Prompts
Retro pixel art control prompts for use in your games and other projects. There are a total of 626 sprites in this pack.
Let Me Just Use This Takes First Place in GMC Jam 57
The results of the GMC Jam 57 are in and my entry Let Me Just Use This For A Second won first place!
