Making an indie game solo: how to handle the art
You need characters, scenes, icons and other 2D assets, all in a consistent style.
A set of 2D game assets in one consistent style
3 top picks
Made for games; train a style on your own images and batch-generate consistent assets.
Free: Free tier: 50 free credits, no credit card needed
Free plan gives 150 tokens per day; good for exploring styles early on.
Free: Free plan: 150 Fast Tokens per day; generations are public
Open source and free, runs locally; for people with a GPU who want fine control over the pipeline.
Free: Open source and free, runs locally; the cloud service has a free trial
How to combine them
- 1
Explore 3–5 art styles in Leonardo and settle on the final one.
- 2
Pick 10–20 images you like and train a style model in Scenario.
- 3
Batch-generate assets, then clean them up by hand (transparent backgrounds, sizes) before importing into the game engine.
How far the free plans go
Leonardo free plan: 150 tokens per day (generations are public); Scenario has 50 free credits; ComfyUI is open source and free but needs your own GPU.
Prices and limits change often. Data checked on 2026-10-27; the official sites are the final word.
Not for
- Commercial projects with strict copyright requirements (read each platform's commercial terms)