Asset tool · 4 November 2026 · 4 min read

Galaxy Pixel Art Generator: build and animate a space crew of pixel art characters

Galaxy Pixel Art Generator builds space pixel art characters from 7 roles and 96 pieces, animates them in 32 ways and exports sprite sheets for Godot and Unity.

Galaxy pixel art banner with a line of six space recruits under a starry sky

A crew of pixel art space recruits fighting in a sci-fi lab with platforms, crates and a red laser barrier — A crew of recruits in the training lab.

Item, face, head and body pieces stacking into one armored pixel art character — Item, face, head and body: four pieces stack into one character.

Five pixel art space recruits standing on glowing rings, from an armored soldier to an astronaut and an alien — Build your space crew: five recruits from different roles.

A pixel art character generator for sci-fi games

Galaxy Pixel Art Generator is our tool for building a space crew of pixel art characters. Pick a role, swap every piece, recolor anything and export a fully animated character for your game in a few clicks.

In numbers: 7 roles, 96 pixel art pieces, 32 animations and any color you like. The result is a set of sprite sheets ready for Godot, Unity, GameMaker, Phaser and any other engine that reads sprite sheets.

Recruit: seven roles that make sense

Choose a role: civilian, soldier, technician, runner, scholar, astronaut or alien. Every click builds a new character from pieces that fit that role, so soldiers get armor, helmets and rifles while civilians never do. Hit random as many times as you want and you get a whole crew that still looks like it belongs to the same game.

Grid of 32 different pixel art space characters: soldiers, astronauts, aliens, technicians and civilians — Every recruit is unique: a grid of characters built from the seven roles.

Equip and paint every piece

Each character is made of an item, a face, hair or a helmet, and a body. Swap any of them from the 96 pieces: laser swords, rifles, tools and med kits; helmets, hoods and caps; armors, lab coats and space suits.

Recolor any piece and the shading follows the new color, so a recolored ponytail or armor still reads as pixel art and not as a flat fill.

32 animations, with attacks that match the item

Every character gets 32 animations, and the attack fits what it holds: rifles shoot, swords slash with a trail in the blade's color and med kits heal.

Basics: idle, walk, run, jump, attack, hurt and two deaths
Movement: land, double jump, crouch, slide, dash, roll and wall slide
Combat: jump attack, run and attack, crouch attack, throw, block, block hit, stunned and knocked back
Character: victory, fall asleep, sleep, talk, nod, shake, pick up, teleport in and teleport out

Eight pixel art recruits playing dash, double jump, wall slide, teleport, slide, victory, sleep and block animations — Some of the animations added in Update 2.0: dash, double jump, wall slide, teleport, slide, victory, sleep and block.

Sprite sheet export for Godot, Unity, GameMaker and Phaser

When your recruit is ready, export it in the format your engine wants, or take everything in a single zip. Already have a character of your own? Load your pixel art in the Animate tab and use the same animation tools on it.

Sprite sheet PNG with one row per animation, for any engine
JSON in the Aseprite format, for Unity, GameMaker, Phaser and more
Godot 4 SpriteFrames (.tres)
Animated GIFs for previews, social posts and devlogs
Everything in one .zip with one click

Try your character in the Test Lab

Before you export, take your recruit into the training lab: run, jump between platforms and fight waves of enemy recruits. Pick the difficulty and which roles the enemies come from, or switch on Can't lose to try every move without dying.

The Test Lab: a hooded recruit fighting two alien recruits on the floor of a sci-fi lab, with hearts, wave and score — The Test Lab: your recruit against waves of enemy recruits, with hearts, waves and score.

Runs offline on Windows, macOS and Linux

The tool is a single HTML file: double-click it and it opens in your browser. It works offline on Windows, macOS and Linux, with no install and no account. The interface is in English.

The characters you create are yours to use in your own games, free or commercial. Reselling the tool or its pieces is not allowed.

Price, launch sale and free updates

Galaxy Pixel Art Generator costs 9.99 €, and until 25 November 2026 it is 50% off at 4.99 €. Every update is free for everyone who owns the tool.

The first 50 buyers also get the Founder Pack in their download: the Founder Commander, an exclusive black and gold recruit with all 32 animations, and 12 new weapons early, such as a railgun, a flamethrower and a freeze ray. Pay 9.99 € or more during the launch sale (19.99 € after 25 November) and you also get the Pieces Pack: 95 pieces as separate PNG layers, aligned on one canvas.

Update 1 (27 October) added the Test Lab and Update 2.0 (31 October) added 24 new animations, for 32 in all. Mechs, vehicles and spaceships are next.

Galaxy Pixel Art Generator on itch.io: mekai-games.itch.io/galaxy-pixel-characters

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