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Thanks KingBell 👋 Glad you like Soft Glass! Can't wait to see what you make with it 😄

Thanks, glad you like it! 🙌 And the "something bigger" from the post is out now: Cooked FX 250, 250 more effects in the same five themes. It's on our page if you want a look.

Hey, the cook from The Cooked Works here 👋

We just released our second free effects pack: Cooked FX Environment & Emotes.

It's 40 animated 2D effects for making a scene feel alive: rain, snow, fog, fireflies, falling leaves, fountains, ripples... plus little emotes that pop up above a character's head (idea bulb, alert, music notes, the anger vein and friends). Mostly seamless loops.

Everything comes in five themes (Soft Glass, Cozy Chunky, Clean Paper, Flat Night and Pixel) as plain PNG sprite sheets with an anims.json, so it works in Godot, Unity, GameMaker or whatever you're using. Free for personal and commercial games, no credit needed.

And a little heads-up: something bigger is almost out of the oven. Cooked FX 250 is five big paid packs, one per theme, with 250 effects each (magic, combat, sci-fi, UI and platformer), in the same style, so everything mixes with the free packs.

If you'd like to hear the moment they land, give us a follow: the-cooked-works.itch.io 🙂

And if you try the free pack, tell me what's missing or what you'd use it for. We only opened the store about a week ago, so feedback really helps!

Hey, the cook from The Cooked Works here 👋 Fellow asset maker! We only opened our little shop on itch last week, so I’m still figuring things out too, but a few things jumped out at me.
One thing I’ve noticed so far is how much tags matter. Almost all of our traffic has come from itch’s browse pages (Newest, New & Popular, and tag pages like Godot or Unity), rather than search. I noticed you don’t have an engine tag yet, so swapping something like “DRM Free” for Godot or Unity might help put the pack in front of more people.
I’d also lead with a GIF showing the creatures actually moving. The sprite sheets look nice, but seeing the animations in action is what makes people go, “Oh, I want that.” Even a quick shot of a few creatures walking around on a simple tile floor would make it much easier to imagine them in a game.
A custom dark theme and a banner would help too. It’s a small thing, but it can make a new page feel much more polished and established.
On the AI side, we’re in a similar boat. Our assets come from procedural code we wrote with AI assistance, and we disclose that too. I think explaining in the first few lines how the art is actually made would help a lot, so people immediately understand what “AI assisted” means in your case.
And for Q3: definitely both! Since you already include sprite sheets and individual frames, I’d highlight that near the top of the page.
Rooting for you — good luck with the library! 😊

Hi everyone! We just released Cooked FX, a free effects pack for 2D games, and wanted to share it here.

• 40 effects: hits, slashes, explosions, blood (3 colours), fire, ice, lightning, heal, buffs and status loops, dust, coins, level up, confetti, portals and more
• 5 matching themes: Soft Glass, Cozy Chunky, Clean Paper, Flat Night and Pixel
• 19 effects come twice: side view for platformers, top-down for top-down games
• Sprite sheets + JSON (frames, fps, loop), seamless loops, PNG at 1x and 2x (Pixel: 32 px native, x4 and x8)
• Free for commercial use, no credit needed

Download: https://the-cooked-works.itch.io/cooked-fx

Feedback and effect requests are very welcome. Deeper themed packs are next, so tell us what you would like to see!

Hi everyone! We just released Cooked FX, a free effects pack for 2D games, and wanted to share it here.

• 40 effects: hits, slashes, explosions, blood (3 colours), fire, ice, lightning, heal, buffs and status loops, dust, coins, level up, confetti, portals and more
• 5 matching themes: Soft Glass, Cozy Chunky, Clean Paper, Flat Night and Pixel
• 19 effects come twice: side view for platformers, top-down for top-down games
• Sprite sheets + JSON (frames, fps, loop), seamless loops, PNG at 1x and 2x (Pixel: 32 px native, x4 and x8)
• Free for commercial use, no credit needed

Download: https://the-cooked-works.itch.io/cooked-fx

Feedback and effect requests are very welcome. Deeper themed packs are next, so tell us what you would like to see!