Ashen Deck Sampler: Card Frames (Free)

Free. Try the nine-slice card workflow before you buy anything: import frame_common_attack.png, type the four numbers from its .9slice.json (48 / 48 / 96 / 64) into your sprite's border fields, set the image to Sliced, and drop your art into the empty window. Version 1.0.0.

A hand-picked slice of Ashen Deck Vol.1: Card Frames, a dark-fantasy card UI for roguelike deckbuilders. Every file here is byte-identical to the file of the same name in the full pack, so whatever you build with the sampler keeps working when you upgrade.

What's inside

12 items, 32-bit RGBA PNG on transparent backgrounds. 56 files in the zip (38 PNG, 14 JSON, 4 text files), about 5.3 MB.

• 2 card frames: frame_common_attack and frame_common_skill. Sizes 1024x1432 (_xl), 512x716 and 256x358 (_sm); 6 PNG files, each with a .9slice.json sidecar.
• 1 full-art frame: frame_common_full. Same three sizes, 3 PNG files, each with a sidecar.
• 1 rules-text panel: panel_rules_common. 1024x400 (_xl), 512x200 and 256x100 (_sm); 3 PNG files, each with a sidecar.
• 1 card back: back_common, in the three frame sizes (3 PNG files).
• 1 art-window mask: mask_art_window, opaque white where the art window is, in the three frame sizes (3 PNG files).
• 1 rarity sigil (sigil_common), 2 type emblems (emblem_attack, emblem_skill) and 2 badges (badge_cost_common, badge_stat_common): 128x128 master, plus 64x64 and 32x32 (Icons/128/, Icons/64/, PNG_32/), 15 PNG files.
• 1 crest: crest_common, 256x160 master plus 128x80 and 32x20 (Crests/, PNG_32/), 3 PNG files.
• 2 sprite atlases with JSON (Atlas/emblems_atlas, badges_atlas), packed from the largest export.
• NINE_SLICE_GUIDE.md (Unity and Godot 4 setup, stretch vs tile), README.txt, LICENSE.txt, CHANGELOG.txt.

Formats, plainly: PNG at three sizes for every item, plus nine-slice JSON, atlas PNG + JSON and a Markdown guide. No SVG, no layered PSD, no .blend source, no fonts, no card art. Portrait layout only.

Built for engines

• Transparent PNGs at every listed size, clean alpha edges, no baked drop shadows.
• Nine-slice ready: every frame, full-art frame and panel ships a .9slice.json with the borders already scaled to that size (frames 96/96/192/128 at 1024, 48/48/96/64 at 512, 24/24/48/32 at 256). edge_mode is stretch.
• Unity: Texture Type = Sprite (2D and UI), Mesh Type = Full Rect, Border fields from the sidecar, Image Type = Sliced, Fill Center off for the frames. Godot 4: NinePatchRect or StyleBoxTexture with the sidecar values in Patch Margin, Draw Center off for the frames. Walkthroughs are in the guide.

Get the full pack

The sampler is a strict subset. The full Ashen Deck Vol.1: Card Frames is $3.99 and has 71 items: 6 rarities (common, uncommon, rare, epic, legendary, mythic) x 4 card types (attack, skill, power, curse), plus full-art frames, rules panels, backs, sigils, emblems, badges and crests in every rarity.

https://spareminute.itch.io/ashen-deck-vol1-card-frames

Also free, in the same palette and light: Ashen Deck Lite: Status Icons, 12 status/buff icons drawn to sit 1:1 on the 512 px frames.

https://spareminute.itch.io/ashen-deck-lite-status-icons

License

Custom royalty-free license (not Creative Commons). Full terms are in LICENSE.txt inside the download. In short:

• Use in unlimited commercial or non-commercial games, apps, jams, trailers and store pages. No attribution required.
• Modify, recolour, crop, resize, slice and combine freely.
• Do not resell, redistribute or share the assets themselves, alone or inside another asset pack, template, UI kit or sprite collection.
• Do not use the assets to train, fine-tune or evaluate AI or ML models.

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Also from this publisher: Flintspark FX, 43 status, hit and loot VFX strips for Godot and Unity (free sampler:Flintspark FX Lite).