Thousands of patterns for your Flash arcade game

One of the most successful arcade of all times is Bubble Bobble.

Besides the awesome gameplay, one of its features that made it a successful game was its cute graphic design.

If you look at the picture, every level is made by a just a black screen with some platforms, but the patterns filling these platforms give the game an interesting look.

The following is a list of sites that offers patterns I think you can find useful for your next Flash arcade game.

Remember to check the license before using one of them for commercial use

www.brusheezy.com/patterns – free Photoshop patterns

squidfingers.com/patterns/1/ – more than 150 pixel patterns

www.dinpattern.com/index.php – some interesting big patterns that can be used as backgrounds

bgpatterns.com/ – online tool to create your own pattern

patterns.ava7.com/ – about one thousand patterns searchables by color and theme

www.deviantart.com/#catpath=resources/applications&order=9&q=pixel+pattern – more than 50 resources for pixel patterns

www.k10k.net/pixelpatterns/ – a lot of tiny pixel patterns

veredgf.fredfarm.com/pattern-bomb/ – patterns for non commercial use only

www.tilemachine.com/ – design your own tile or choose one from the gallery

http://www.kollermedia.at/pattern4u/ – more than 250 patterns

www.fontastica.com/pixel-patterns.html – pattern fonts, very “Game Boy” look

www.colourlovers.com/patterns – thousands of patterns

www.clickpopmedia.com/tag/pixel-patterns/ – some black/white pixel patterns

celestial-star.net/patterns/ – pattern files for Photoshop

www.stripegenerator.com/ – online tool to create your own striped pattern

If you know more, just let me know.

7 Responses

1. Michael J Williams says:

   April 22, 2009 at 2:19 pm

   Hey, these are really great; thanks Emanuele!

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2. benny! says:

   April 22, 2009 at 2:22 pm

   Wow, thanks for this great link lists!

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3. dino says:

   April 22, 2009 at 2:24 pm

   Thanks emanuele. Good stuff :)

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4. Mauro says:

   April 22, 2009 at 8:03 pm

   thanks! it isn’t that hard to make them in photoshop or something like that but it’s easier to just download them :P

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5. zeflasher says:

   April 23, 2009 at 4:25 am

   There is a blog having also a good listing you may like

   http://www.instantshift.com/2009/03/28/the-ultimate-list-of-sources-for-free-background-patterns/

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6. Devon says:

   April 23, 2009 at 4:48 am

   Love the patterns for Photoshop, was just Google’ing for this about a week ago and come up with nothing. Thanks for the links!

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7. Linux And Friends says:

   November 13, 2009 at 8:09 am

   Is there any way of getting legally, a free copy of Bubble Bobble game ? Since this is a very old game played on MS DOS, it should be available in the public domain right ?

   My favourite games are Pac Man and MS PAC.

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