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!
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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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
Winter Sales begin with All Fonts Pack
We’re beginning a whole season of winter sales with 90% off our All Fonts Pack!
Sprite To Life Available Again Now
We’ve decided to make our tool Sprite To Life! available again on itch. The tool, which we developed briefly in 2020, allows you to extrude fake 3D graphics from 2D sprites, and quickly test stacked sprites.
New Tile Sets for 2D Platformer Games
Today we’re adding even more new tile sets to our 2D Platformer Kit! Eventually the whole thing will be available to the public, but as we complete each biome we’re releasing the tiles exclusively for members of our Patreon.
Nildigo Hits 1,000 Wishlists on Steam
Nildigo, our mine-sweeping roguelite puzzle game, has just reached 1,000 wishlists on Steam!
GameMaker Match 3 Template Now 100% Free
Our Anime Girls Match 3 Template for GameMaker is now 100% free for commercial use. The project, which contains the source code of our game Love Witch Heroines, has all the code you need to make a match 3 puzzle game with soft dating mechanics.
Play Nildigo During Steam Next Fest
Our upcoming puzzle game Nildigo features in the October 2025 Steam Next Fest, with a free demo you can download and play ahead of release.
We talked fonts at AniMangaPop!
On Saturday, I headed to AniMangaPop in Bristol to meet artists and talk to them about our All Fonts Pack. Funnily enough, the event itself uses one of our fonts, Saveloy, for its logo!
Announcing My Account for Chequered Ink
Today we’re announcing My Account for Chequered Ink, a new way to stay in touch with us and the whole game dev community!
28 New Autumnal Icons
Ready for Autumn and Halloween, we’ve added a handful of new sprites to our inventory icons pack including new types of mushrooms, new leaf colours, acorns, berries, chestnuts and pumpkins.
