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March update (A)
Hey everyone, thanks for your continued support which allows me to keep creating freely available game assets and more. This month no exclusive unfortunately, instead I'll update you on the stuff I've been working on;KenShapeThis month KenShape was released which allows pixel art to be converted to 3D models using extrusion. It also received an update adding some often requested features like undo/redo and zooming. A new update is planned to release soon which adds more shapes, vector exporting and advanced drawing tools - stay tuned fo...
June update (B)
Hey everyone! This month I'm going to ask everyone for a favor in order to release new 3D game assets in the near future. As most of you are aware I've lost a lot of my data back in December, including software and tools I use to export game assets to different file formats.I've remade the tools and I'm now looking for feedback. Download the attached package and test the file formats in software of your choice, let me know everything that can be improved or goes wrong - any sort of feedback is more than welcome!Check the preview...
June update (A)
Hey everyone, thanks for the continued support!---• NitroneersJune is quite a busy month so far as I'm about to reveal my first commercial game, Nitroneers! I'm developing it in collaboration with Kay Lousberg. You can follow the Twitter profile to see the announcement later this week.• Asset ForgeI've also recently published exciting news regarding Asset Forge, two new programmers will join the team and push towards the 2.0 release of the software.• Game assetsNew game assets will be released soon! All Patreon supporters ($5....
New Pixeland website/location (+ bonus wallpapers)
Hey supporters,As you might've heard already we're currently constructing a new Pixeland location. It's located in the same city/country as the previous location but 70% bigger and better suit for public use.What's Pixeland?Pixeland is both a local and global initiative (also to be referred to as thingumajig) to bring together game developers, artists, hobbyists, and students from very young to very old.You can more information on the brand new website:http://pixeland.io/If you'd like to stay up-to-date with construction you...
Patreon changes
You probably already heard or read it somewhere; Patreon is changing the way fees are calculated. Instead of us (the creator) paying for Patreon fees they're shifting all fees to you, the supporter. Why? Because money.This is wrong, we don't like it and we wouldn't want it to happen.There's a huge backlash from the community and creators to Patreon but we're not convinced that this will be easily solved. The only solution is to cut ties with Patreon and create a custom system for donations.That's what we're doing rig...
Thanks for supporting, here are your exclusives!
Thank you for being a valued member of the Kenney Club! You now have exclusive access to the following perks and benefits:Exclusives Access to the #club channel on Discord (Member) Digital goodies pack (attached to this post)Claim on Itch.io Claim Kenney Studio (Member) Claim Pixross (Member) Claim Frick, Inc. (Member) Claim Kenney Shape (Plus) Claim Asset Forge (Premium)Unity Sources (Member) Game source: KenCars (arcade-like car controller) Game source: KenGolf (minigolf) Game source: KenBlocks (popular Russian puzzle game) Game source: KenPl...
Monthly update (August/September)
Written by Any Key, BeefEX, Haddicus and KenneyIt's been quite busy at Kenney and Pixeland. There are so many things going on with the community, development of assets as well as near-future changes to our office location. As with any major developments and changes so comes the stress of the daily grind and making sure things keep moving forward.New Pixeland locationFor some time we've been considering a new location for our office. The current location has some issues related to the availability of co-working spaces, event holding, par...
Pixeland is now active on Twitter!
In order to gain more interaction with the community and to extend our reach we've set up a Twitter account for Pixeland;Twitter (Pixeland.io)The account will be managed by a few of our regular members on the Discord server who will be posting game development tips, sharing community creations, events and more.Make sure to follow and retweet if you see anything interesting.Cheers!
Monthly update (July)
Written by Any Key, BeefEX, Brick, Haddicus and KenneyJuly was a busy month at our studio and in the Pixeland community seeing the release of Asset Forge and community involvement in the newest Ludum Dare fueling a lot of the action. This blog post will now become a regular thing written by the community. We hope that this will allow new or less frequent community members to get a quick synopsis of activity and feel more involved. Lets get to it!Game assetsPatreon supporters ($5.00+) now have access to the new Graveyard Kit which includes grave...
Community update (July)
Here's a quick run down of what's been happening at Pixeland ($5 patrons get a special rank!) recently.Game assetsWork on all assets has been postponed in favor of getting Asset Forge ready for release. There are plenty of packs and updates planned and work on those shall resume once the first version of Asset Forge is out.ResourcesThe following resources have been shared by the community members in the past month and may be useful to other game developers;Bengsfort shared his excellent Unity project .gitignore. If you're using Git ...
Second milestone reached!
Thanks to all supporters the second milestone has been reached! The next milestone (at $1,024 monthly) will make Kenney Game Assets 1 a free download for everyone, this will help game developers in low income countries and students all over the world.Stay tuned for early access to Asset Forge and more previews of the upcoming Kenney Game Assets 3 bundle as well as early previews of other asset packs. Working hard on a new 3D character including animations!
Release schedule
Now that the new asset pipeline is in place everyone will be able to enjoy the Space Kit next week (make sure to report problems and bugs!) and supporters ($5.00 or more) will get an exclusive early access of the Castle Kit in the same week!We'll be releasing Asset Forge in June, an easy to use 3D modeling tool which can export creations to both OBJ and FBX (same as the pipeline we use internally) and produce 2D renders.In July we'll be working on Kenney Game Assets 3 which will work the exact same way as previous bundles; a set price w...
Monthly update (July)
Hey Patrons!First of all; I love every single one of you.Now, the monthly update.New assetsA new (free) pack of assets has been released which contains about 160 extremely generic items, ranging from tools to medical equipment. Based on the popularity and the amount of requests for more items there will be more of these!Download:http://kenney.nl/assets/generic-itemsKenney StudioNext there's been a giant update to Kenney Studio. Starting from scratch the new version (Kenney Studio NXT) allows users to create own asset templates, this extends...
Monthly update (June)
Hey guys!First off, thanks for supporting me on Patreon! Donations and support like this is incredibly important to keep releasing game asset packs. I'll be keeping you up-to-date with monthly updates from now on.Speaking of asset packs, this month I've released 4 new ones! You can download them in the attached ZIP archive or on my website (www.kenney.nl/assets)Here's a quick overview:Modular Buildings (3D, 100 models)Watercraft Pack (3D, 30 models)Map Pack (2D, 180 assets)Nature Pack Extended (3D, 180 models)In other news; I'll...
Monthly update (June)
Hey Patrons,Thanks for supporting me with all the projects I do! Every little bit helps and allows me to keep creating stuff for free, or for a low price. Here's an update on things:Game Assets:Last week Roguelike: Caves & Dungeons got released which adds 520 assets to the roguelike pack series. This was often requested and I'm glad it's out there now! You can download it for free onmy website.Next up is the voxel pack. It'll include tiles to create both 2D and 3D 'voxel' games similar to the popular Minecraft game. Got ...
