Exporting Pixel Art Assets for Godot, Unity, and Phaser

The Golden Rule

Never scale pixel art with anti-aliasing. Every game engine defaults to bilinear filtering, which blurs pixel art into a mushy mess. The first thing you must do in any engine is set texture filtering to Nearest Neighbor (also called Point filtering).

Godot

• Import settings: set Filter to Off on all pixel art textures
• In Project Settings: set Rendering > Textures > Default Texture Filter to Nearest
• Use Camera2D with integer zoom values (2x, 3x, 4x)

Unity

• Texture import: set Filter Mode to Point (no filter)
• Set Compression to None for clean pixels
• Pixels Per Unit should match your tile size (16 for 16x16 tiles)
• Use a Pixel Perfect Camera component

Phaser

• Set pixelArt: true in your game config — this handles filtering automatically
• Use scene.textures.addSpriteSheet() for animated sprites
• Piktor exports sprite sheets in an 8-column format that works directly with Phaser's frame system

Universal Export Tips

• Always export as PNG (lossless, supports transparency)
• Export at 1x resolution — let the engine handle scaling
• Use power-of-two dimensions when possible (16, 32, 64, 128, 256)
• Include a 1-2px transparent border around sprite sheets to prevent bleeding