Pixel & retro
16-bit pixel
The JRPG sweet spot. Enough colours for real shading, few enough that every pixel is still placed on purpose, with dithering standing in for gradients.
What to look at
- 01Dither clusters where a gradient would be
- 02Warm, saturated, deliberately limited palette
- 03Every pixel placed, none blurred
Prompts
The prompts stay in English on purpose: image models read English best, so translating them only costs you quality. Paste them as they are.
Character prompt
Goes in the Style field of the character, T-pose and animation tools.
16-bit SNES-era pixel art game sprite, crisp pixels, a limited 16-colour palette, selective dithering for shading, clean dark outline, warm saturated colours
Tilemap prompt
Goes in the tilemap tool's custom style field.
16-bit SNES-era pixel art terrain, crisp pixels at the tile's own resolution, a limited palette of about 16 warm saturated colours, shading built from selective dithering clusters rather than gradients, clean readable material texture
Background prompt
Generate a background image with this first, then feed that image to the scene splitter. Replace the bracketed part with your own scene.
A single 2D game background plate for [YOUR SCENE — e.g. a seaside village at dusk]. Horizontal composition, drawn as one illustrated scene whose buildings, trees, rocks and props sit clearly apart from one another, each fully visible and not overlapping, so every one of them can be cut out afterwards as a standalone asset. Draw it as 16-bit SNES-era pixel art: crisp pixels, a limited warm saturated palette, shading built from dither clusters instead of gradients, and clean dark outlines around the main forms. Keep one consistent light direction and one consistent perspective across the whole scene. No characters, no text, no labels, no UI, no logos, no watermark, no border.
Games that made this look known
Chrono Trigger · Sonic Mania
Reference for your eye only. The prompts never name a game, so the model designs something of its own instead of copying one.
Keep looking
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The prompts are free to take. Generating with them uses credits.