I'll be honest: I didn't read the description well enough before buying. I'm one of *those* people who thought this was software. The price seemed reasonable enough for what I was getting: the ability to click and choose which sword parts I wanted?! The ability to click and choose which ship parts I wanted?! This was going to be great!

Run the program and... it displays how many graphics are now in the folders on my computer. There's some text that says "Medieval Sword Maker". That must be what I want! I click on it. Nothing. I click on "Near future Weapon Maker." Nothing. I click on "Planet Constructor". None of these things are actually software for making medieval swords or constructing planets. It's just a misleading name that actually means "Medieval Sword Pictures are on your Computer".

Ok, well not such a big deal, at least I still have the art. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out how to use it in my game.

I decided to make a character with the character pack. I already own Game Character Hub, and that's pretty flexible at letting you import sprite sheets. You just need to tell it the frame dimensions and how many rows and columns there are. For some reason though, the producers of Indie Graphics Bundle decided to cut the whitespace of the images so they are no longer uniform. The frames for a character walking to the side have widths of 30px, 42px, and 46px all in a row. That is not usable without manually adjusting each frame to have uniform dimensions! Frustrating!

I also had difficulty with animations that didn't loop properly. I tried using Blue Energy Flux, which is a nice friendly 8 frame animation. It even has uniform spacing! Unfortunately the 8th frame and the 1st frame don't loop into each other. So I can either manually edit the image so that it looks better in a loop, or I can have exactly 8 frames of animation before it's done.

In any case, I cannot recommend this graphics pack. I've poked around a little bit more and there seems to be a pretty healthy mix of usable graphics to junk graphics. I do not feel like I got my money's worth due to how badly these graphics are packaged. I shouldn't have to be manually editing whitespace in the spritesheets after I just paid for something that didn't end up being software anyway.

I'll be honest: I didn't read the description well enough before buying. I'm one of *those* people who thought this was software. The price seemed reasonable enough for what I was getting: the ability to click and choose which sword parts I wanted?! The ability to click and choose which ship parts I wanted?! This was going to be great! Run the program and... it displays how many graphics are now in the folders on my computer. There's some text that says "Medieval Sword Maker". That must be what I want! I click on it. Nothing. I click on "Near future Weapon Maker." Nothing. I click on "Planet Constructor". None of these things are actually software for making medieval swords or constructing planets. It's just a misleading name that actually means "Medieval Sword Pictures are on your Computer". Ok, well not such a big deal, at least I still have the art. It shouldn't be too hard to figure out how to use it in my game. I decided to make a character with the character pack. I already own Game Character Hub, and that's pretty flexible at letting you import sprite sheets. You just need to tell it the frame dimensions and how many rows and columns there are. For some reason though, the producers of Indie Graphics Bundle decided to cut the whitespace of the images so they are no longer uniform. The frames for a character walking to the side have widths of 30px, 42px, and 46px all in a row. That is not usable without manually adjusting each frame to have uniform dimensions! Frustrating! I also had difficulty with animations that didn't loop properly. I tried using Blue Energy Flux, which is a nice friendly 8 frame animation. It even has uniform spacing! Unfortunately the 8th frame and the 1st frame don't loop into each other. So I can either manually edit the image so that it looks better in a loop, or I can have exactly 8 frames of animation before it's done. In any case, I cannot recommend this graphics pack. I've poked around a little bit more and there seems to be a pretty healthy mix of usable graphics to junk graphics. I do not feel like I got my money's worth due to how badly these graphics are packaged. I shouldn't have to be manually editing whitespace in the spritesheets after I just paid for something that didn't end up being software anyway.