Games and Creativity · Tabnews · 🇧🇷 Brazil
Generating all of a game's pixel art with code written together with AI
A dev gave up on image generators and started drawing isometric sprites with a Python script.
- Profession
- Developer, Game Designer
- Tools
- Python, IA generativa
- Source
- tabnews.com.br ↗
- Country
- 🇧🇷 Brazil
- Report date
- October 22, 2026
- Verified on
- October 24, 2026
What they did
Built a Python generator (Pillow) that draws buildings, characters and effects.
How it went
The atlas has 514 frames. They say image generators couldn't keep the palette consistent.
Good to know
Art generated by code makes it easier to keep the palette consistent and fix details.
The prompt
Write a Python script with Pillow that draws an isometric pixel art [object] at [size]px using only this palette: [colors]. Generate color variations.
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