Getting started with Spriteoven

🥐 Five minutes from sign-up to your first exported sprite sheet.

1. Sign up

Spriteoven is free. Click Sign in in the top right corner of the app and pick one of three paths:

• Email + password — fastest if you want a stable login.
• Magic link — drop your email, we send a one-tap sign-in link.
• Google — single click via OAuth.

No credit card. No "free trial" countdown. Free tier stays free.

2. Generate your first sprite

Open the ⚒️ Forge tab (or 🧪 Sprite Lab for advanced flows) and type a prompt. A good first prompt is concrete:

"16-bit knight, blue cloak, holding a torch, idle pose"

Click Generate. Spriteoven runs the model, post-processes the result (chroma key, palette quantize, bbox validation), and shows you the canonical character sheet. From there you can:

• Generate idle / walk / attack / hurt / death animations against the same canonical reference.
• Quantize to a custom palette (PICO-8, NES, your own).
• Export to your engine of choice (next section).

For tilesets, use the 🗺️ Mapas tab; for items, use 🎒 Items.

3. Upgrade to Premium

Free tier runs on NB2 (Gemini, gratis) — solid quality, zero cost. For higher-fidelity sheets and more consistent silhouettes, buy Spriteoven credits for the GPT Image 2 / Grok / Imagen 4 path:

• Founder Pack — USD 19 / 300 credits (one-time).
• Starter Pack — USD 5 / 75 credits (one-time).
• Top-ups — USD 5 / USD 15 / USD 50.

Spriteoven holds the relationship with each provider — no BYOK key forms, no provider verification dance. Each paid generation decrements one credit; failed jobs are refunded automatically.

Open the 💰 Pricing tab in the app header to checkout via Lemon Squeezy, or hit POST /api/checkout/founder, /api/checkout/starter, or /api/checkout/topup/{5|15|50} from the API.

4. Outputs explained

When you click Export, you can pick from four formats:

• png-sliced — A folder of individual frame PNGs plus a manifest JSON. Pick this for Aseprite import or generic 2D engines.
• tres — Godot 4 SpriteFrames resource (.tres) with all animations defined. Drop into a Godot project and assign to an AnimatedSprite2D.
• aseprite-bundle — A .zip with the source .aseprite file plus pre-rendered PNGs. Pick this if you want to hand-tune frames before shipping.
• godot-bundle — A full Godot subproject .zip: scene file (.tscn), SpriteFrames.tres, and a sample script. Drag-drop import.

Tip: when in doubt, pick godot-bundle for Godot or aseprite-bundle for everything else. They're the most "drop-in".

5. Next steps

• Tilesets — Open the 🗺️ Mapas tab to generate seamless tilesets with auto-tile rules. Choose tile size (16×/32×/64×/96×) and pixel-perfect edge validation runs automatically.
• Iconpacks — 🎒 Items generates batched icons with consistent silhouettes (weapons, shields, consumables, key items).
• Batches — kick off long jobs and get an email when they're done via the /batch endpoint (paid tier only).
• Projects — group your generated assets into named projects synced across browsers. Opt in by signing in.

Troubleshooting

Stuck? Email support@spriteoven.com — there's a small inbox and Fer reads every message.