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750 fantasy backgrounds. Free.

Twenty-five environments, two hundred and fifty locations, and every single location rendered three times — day, night and twilight. Same camera, same scene, relit. Change the filename, change the hour.

Backgrounds750 PNGs
Size1280 × 720, 16:9
Environments25 folders, 30 backgrounds each
PriceFree. No revenue cap, no attribution.

The twenty-five environments

Wilds — Forest · Jungle Wilds · Swamp Marsh · Enchanted Grove · Mountain Pass · Coastal Cliff · Frozen Tundra · Desert Wastes

Built — Castle Interior · Castle Exterior · Throne Room · Village Town · Ancient Temple · Mage Tower · Battlefield

Below — Dark Dungeon · Crystal Cave · Mine Depths · Sewer Catacombs · Haunted Graveyard · Underwater Ruins

Beyond — Sky Isles · Astral Void · Infernal Abyss · Volcanic Hellscape

Ten distinct locations inside each one — a forest is a creek crossing, a pine ridge, a fallen giant tree, a misty path, not one tree drawn ten times.


Three times of day, every location

This is the part that does the work. A scene at noon and the same scene at midnight are two different moods and the same geography, so a game can move through a day without moving the player, and a location a player already knows reads differently when they come back to it at night.


What people use these for

  • Visual novel and dialogue backdrops
  • Battle and encounter scenes
  • Region select, stage select, map nodes
  • Chapter breaks, loading screens, establishing shots
  • Anywhere a game needs to say where without building it in 3D

16:9 at 1280 × 720, so they sit behind a 720p game at native size and scale cleanly to 1080p and 1440p.


What goes in front of them

These are the wide half of a set. The square half is card art — 512 × 512, drawn in the same 32-bit pixel hand, cut to the art window of the card template it ships with. Put a creature card from one of those in front of a scene from this pack and it reads as one game, because it is one hand drawing both.

The card template's playable demo, which you can run in your browser without buying anything, uses eight of these backgrounds as its arenas — unedited files out of this download, a different one every game.

Card Battler Mega Pack — the card template, 1,440 arts and 1,440 icons

Enemy Expansion — 1,440 monsters across 12 families

Landscape Expansion — 600 places across 10 realms

Equipment Expansion — 600 weapons and items across 20 families

Spell & Effect Expansion — 600 spells across 20 schools


Licence

Free, and free to ship. Use them in an unlimited number of projects, commercial or personal. Sell those projects — no revenue cap, no unit cap, no royalty. Modify anything: recolour, crop, composite, paint over. No attribution required — credit is welcome, never necessary.

The one thing you can't do is resell the art itself as an asset pack. Ship the assets in your game; don't ship the assets as your product.

Full terms in LICENSE.txt.

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