Modern Town

A modern top-down 16x16 pixel art city: 445 pieces with roads, sidewalk autotiles, buildings of any size, 48 vehicle sprites and street props. For modern RPGs, life sims, driving and city games, detective and survival games.

Licence in one line: use it in your commercial games; do not resell the files. No credit required.

What you get

• Roads and pavement: asphalt, a 47-tile sidewalk autotile with kerbs and rounded street corners, a 47-tile park lawn autotile, plaza paving, and 25 road markings as overlays: centre lines for 2-lane roads (dashed, solid, double yellow), stop lines, zebra crossings, arrows, parking bays and hatching.
• Buildings of any size (166 tiles): flat roofs as 47-tile autotiles (gravel and membrane) and a facade kit in 4 materials (brick, plaster, siding, concrete) with left, middle and right pieces: walls, windows, doors and shop windows, with lit night versions of the windows and shop windows.
• 12 awning pieces in 4 colours, 6 hanging shop signs (cafe, bakery, books, flowers, pharmacy, shop) and 8 roof props (AC unit, solar panel, water tank, satellite dish...).
• 48 vehicle sprites, every vehicle facing 4 ways: sedans in 6 colours, a taxi, a police car with flashing lights, vans in 2 colours and a city bus.
• 46 street props: street lamps (day and night), a traffic light, benches facing 4 ways, bins, a dumpster, a fire hydrant, a mailbox, a bus stop, a bike rack and bicycles, a parking meter, bollards, planters, a traffic cone, a road barrier, a manhole, road signs, a fountain, street trees, shrubs, flower beds, a phone booth and pigeons.
• Iron railing and box hedge, 16 joins each.
• 18 animation frames included in the count: police lights, a traffic light, the fountain and pecking pigeons.

Made to drop in

• Strict 16x16 grid, PNG only. 76 larger pieces are exact multiples (cars 32x16 and 16x32, the bus 64x32 and 16x64) and stand on their bottom row.
• Every file is named after the object (car_blue_up.png, facade_brick_window_lit_left.png), and the neighbour bitmask is in every autotile file name and in town.json, so you can wire the autotiles to any engine.
• No baked shadows, so nothing to strip before you add your own.
• Single PNGs and sheets, at 1x, 2x and 3x, and a README with the bitmask diagram, how to stack a building and how the road markings join.
• Same grid and view as Gridwright Modern Office & Home (the interiors) and the Gridwright Top-Down Tileset.

The demo town in the screenshots, day and night, was assembled by a small autotiler from these same tiles.

Try before you buy

The free sample has 127 pieces: the full sidewalk autotile, the asphalt, four road markings, the gravel roof autotile, the brick facade set, a red sedan facing 4 ways, a street lamp, a bench and a street tree.

What it does not include

No characters, no snow, no RPG Maker sheets and no engine project files. The art is drawn at 16x16; the 2x and 3x files are scaled copies.

Licence

Use and modify in personal and commercial projects. Shipping the tiles inside your game is fine. No resale or redistribution of the assets, modified or not. Credit is appreciated, not required. Not for AI training or NFTs.

How it was made

Every piece is drawn by code: the autotile shapes are exact geometry, so the pieces always meet. The code was written with AI-assisted tools. No image generator was used, and no third-party art is included.

Missing a building piece, a vehicle or a prop? Leave a comment: the pack gets updates.