Frozen Peaks – Snowy Mountain Side-Scroller Pixel Art Tileset & Asset Pack (16x16)

Build a whole snowy mountain adventure in 16x16 side view. This side-scroller pixel art tileset climbs from a lantern-lit alpine village and its winter festival market, through a cozy three-storey log lodge, a snowy pine forest and a frozen lake, down into glittering ice caves and a crystal mine, and up to the windswept summit and its cable-car gondola. It has 1351 assets, including 106 animated props and 32 fully animated characters and creatures. Everything comes in four palettes: crisp day, pink alpenglow dusk, aurora night and blizzard.

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1351 assets · 16x16 grid · 685 tiles · 499 props · 106 animations · 32 characters · 6 parallax backgrounds · 4 palettes · Tiled-ready

• 685 tiles, plus 30 animated tiles (4 to 8 frames each) for mountain streams, lake water, waterfalls, steaming hot springs and glowing windows.
• 7 auto-tiling terrains (47-tile blob sets with Tiled terrain brushes): snowy ground, snowy rock cliff, clear ice, ice cave, village cobbles, log timber and packed-snow brick. Snow, cliff and ice also have 45° and 22.5° slopes.
• Platform kit: one-way log and plank platforms, snowy stone ledges, ice shelves, rope bridges and iron truss girders.
• Building kit: log, timber-frame, plaster and stone walls, snowy shingle and slate roofs with icicles, frosted windows, doors, floors, chimneys, background walls, ladders, ropes and chains.
• Hazards and decor tiles: ice and iron spikes, falling icicles, cracked and breakable ice blocks, thin ice that breaks, frozen grass, crystals and hanging icicles.
• 499 props:
  • village street: lamp posts, sleds, firewood stacks, snowmen, signposts, a roofed well, benches, fences, a mailbox and ski racks
  • winter festival market: stalls, a grand decorated tree, gift boxes, garlands, a stage, a pavilion tent, a chestnut cart, a gingerbread house and a skate rental
  • cozy lodge and kitchen: armchairs, a bunk bed, rugs, bookshelves, a cuckoo clock, a spinning wheel, coat and boot racks, a fondue pot and a preserves shelf
  • snowy pine forest: pines, spruces, firs and birches, stumps, boulders, fallen logs, frosted bushes, snowdrops, a watchtower, a footbridge, a deer feeder and a fox den
  • frozen lake and winter sports: ice-fishing huts and a tent, tip-ups and gear, a boathouse, a kicksled, skates, skis, snowshoes and race flags
  • ice caves and crystal mine: blue, violet, green and red crystals, a giant crystal, ice stalactites and pillars, a frozen waterfall, a frozen adventurer and chest, a frost altar, mine carts, rails, a winch and ore piles
  • summit and climbing: the gondola station, cabin and cable pylon, crags and cornices, expedition tents, ropes, ice axes, crampons, a weather station, a lookout tower, a shrine bell and a yeti cave
  • alpine buildings: a timber chalet, a chapel, a clock tower, a bakery, an inn, a blacksmith's forge, a general store, a frozen watermill, a barn and cabins, plus doors, windows, roofs, balconies and shop signs
• 106 animated props, 12 to 20 frames each, all seamless loops. They include:
  • fireplaces, a pot-belly stove, campfires, a festival bonfire, braziers, torches, a forge and a chestnut roaster
  • alpine lanterns, street lamps, swinging lanterns, frosted and candle-lit windows, string lights, a star topper and fireworks
  • steaming cocoa, a kettle, a bubbling pot, chimney smoke, a hot-spring pool, a snow globe and a cuckoo clock
  • snowfall, dripping icicles, spindrift, snow puffs, swaying pines shedding snow, flags, bunting, a weathervane and a swaying gondola
  • a mountain brook, ice-fishing holes, a jumping fish, bobbing ice floes and a water wheel with icicles
  • glowing ice crystals, a frost portal, frost wisps, a frozen orb, frostfire torches and a floating aurora shard
  • snow hares, a fox, an ermine, a snowy owl, a squirrel, bullfinches, ptarmigan and a sleeping cat
• 32 characters and creatures on 32x32 frames (the big ones up to 64x64), 150 animations in all:
  • mountaineer hero and ranger heroine with 13 animations each: idle, walk, run, jump, fall, land, axe or bow attack, snowball throw, climb, ice slide, push, hurt and death
  • 15 villagers with idle, walk and a work action: the baker, innkeeper, blacksmith, shopkeeper, mountain guide, woodcutter, ice fisher, skier, cocoa seller, village elder, postman, accordion player, mayor and two kids
  • 15 creatures: a yeti, a woolly mammoth, a polar bear, an ice golem, a snowman brute, a frost wraith, a frost spider, a snow goblin, a snow wolf, a mountain goat, a snowy owl, an ice bat, an ice slime and husky and arctic fox companions
• 6 parallax backgrounds (29 layers, 512x288, tile horizontally): mountains, village, pine forest, frozen lake, ice cave and summit.
• 4 palettes: day, dusk, night with aurora, and blizzard. Every tile, prop, animation and background is re-graded, and fires, lights and magic ice stay bright.
• 8 example maps as Tiled .tmx files (the scenes on this page).
• Light pools: lantern, fire, moonlight, frost and aurora glow overlays at 32, 64 and 128 px.
• Formats:
  • sprite sheets at 1x, 2x and 3x, and every asset as its own PNG
  • animation strips, single frames and GIF previews
  • character sheets with one row per animation, plus a layout file
  • props_sheet.json with atlas coordinates
  • Tiled .tsx tilesets with terrains, collision flags and animations set up

The mock game screen's UI is only for show and is not included.

All four palettes use the same file names and atlas layout, so switching the time of day or the weather in your engine or in Tiled is a single image swap.

Grid: 16x16 px. Characters use 32x32 frames (the yeti, mammoth, polar bear, golem, snowman brute, wraith and wolf are bigger) and face right, so flip them for left. The bottom edge of each prop PNG is the floor it stands on. For hanging props, the top edge is the beam. Light comes from the upper left.

Godot 4:

1. Drop the folder into your project.
2. Set Project Settings → Rendering → Textures → Canvas Textures → Default Texture Filter to Nearest.
3. Make a TileSet from tiles/tileset.png with a 16x16 region size. Use Terrains (Match Corners and Sides) for the seven blob sets and add physics layers to the solid tiles.
4. For characters and animated props, use an AnimatedSprite2D with the strips in animations/strips/ or the rows of *_sheet.png. frames.txt and characters/layout.txt list the speeds.
5. For the backgrounds, put each layer in a Parallax2D using the scroll factors in layers.txt.

Unity:

1. Import the PNGs with Texture Type Sprite (2D and UI), Filter Mode Point (no filter), Compression None and Pixels Per Unit 16.
2. Slice tileset.png in the Sprite Editor (Grid By Cell Size, 16x16) and paint with a Tile Palette. Rule Tiles work well for the blob terrains.
3. Slice a character sheet by its frame size and drag a row of frames into the scene to create an animation clip.

GameMaker:

1. Create a Tile Set from tileset.png (16x16) and use Auto Tiles for the terrains.
2. Import each animation strip as a sprite with Import Strip Image and set the frame count shown in frames.txt.
3. Turn off Interpolate Colours Between Pixels in Game Options.

Tiled: open any map in maps/. Tilesets are in <palette>/tiled/. Use the terrain brushes to paint snow, cliffs, ice, cave rock, cobbles, logs and snow brick. Water, falls, hot springs and windows animate in Tiled's preview.

The pack also works in LDtk, Defold, Construct and any engine that reads PNGs.

You can use these assets in personal and commercial games and projects, and edit or recolour them however you like. Credit to bubbabba is appreciated but not required.

You can't resell or redistribute the assets themselves, edited or not, including as part of another asset pack, tileset or template.

Want to try it first? The free demo has the day tileset, 22 props, 4 animations and the mountaineer hero, under the same license.

Files:

• frozen_peaks_v1.0.zip: the full pack in the day palette, with the light pools and maps
• frozen_peaks_characters_v1.0.zip: all 32 characters and creatures (sheets at 1x, 2x and 3x, strips and GIFs)
• frozen_peaks_palette_dusk_v1.0.zip, frozen_peaks_palette_night_v1.0.zip, frozen_peaks_palette_blizzard_v1.0.zip: the dusk, night and blizzard sets (grab only the ones you need)
• frozen_peaks_free_demo.zip: the free sample