The Book of Inkscape, 2nd Edition

26Tutorial: Artwork for a Game

Games for all kinds of hardware—desktops, gaming consoles, mobile devices—are a huge, always-growing, and intensely graphics-hungry industry. Much of game graphics these days is in 3D, but plenty of work for traditional 2D graphic editors like Inkscape remains—if only as creators of graphic assets for 3D worlds. In this tutorial, I show how Inkscape can be a game developer's Swiss Army knife.

This tutorial's examples are from two games that I, with the help of my family, created for Android mobile devices. They are simple 2D games with arcade-like gameplay based on physical simulation (using the Box2D library). Creating a game is a complex process that includes design, programming, artwork creation, and music, ...