Vania Map Tiles

Save time and get a head start making your map screen!

2025 Update: Now free with optional donation price tag! You can still use these for commercial purposes, just make sure to credit me if you can!

These are 2 color "map tiles" in the style of classic "Vania" games.  You use these tiles to build a map of your game world that the players would see on a map screen.  Examples include some of the Castlevania titles, Metroid, and other such "explore with a mini-map" games.

Technically speaking, these tiles could also be used for a dungeon map or anything else where you need an abstract representation of walls and connections.  Get creative, I'd love to see what you come up with!

I have included many colors, including gb green and pico8.  The tiles come in 8x8 and 16x16 versions.  They are in .png format to work with all software.  Each color comes as both a single sheet file, or as individual tiles sorted into color and size by folders.  The kit should be quite flexible.  Adding your own tile icons should be pretty easy.

Should you need a unique color scheme, all of the images are just 2 colors, so a quick "color replace", or "shift hue" operation on a set should work out great in your favorite painting software.

The test map in the screenshots was created in Tiled, using the single sheets.  It is not actually from any game, I made it just to demo the use of the tiles.

License Info

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Please credit Gawain (DarkGriffin) in your game credits, and include a link to my profile itch page, or this page, if possible.

If you buy or use this pack, you can use it commercially or non-commercially as you wish, and for as many projects as you like! Please do not claim them as your own work though! Thanks for respecting your fellow artists!