This is an announcement that I am re-releasing the asset-pack I made one year ago as a refined and proper asset pack.

Hello, my name is Viktor! I am a Uni-student who is doing some part time game development which has to be balanced with part time work and sports. I have been programming and doing some bits of game development for the better part of a decade but has just recently started actually releasing some things. At the current moment these things are mostly Game Jam games and now some asset packs, but there are more to come in the future.

About the name, I believe it kind of explains it self but I chose to call this version Soft and Hard as it kind of fits with the tiles of vegetation and rocks.

Okay so, some background for this projects:

This pack started with me just sitting down one afternoon in 2024 and deciding that I wanted to do some pixel art. Said and 2 hours later, done. After drawing and playing around with Aseprites tilemap functionality I landed on an initial version of the pack which I decided to just release to itch for fun.

One year later I looked into my analytics for the pack and realised, damn, it actually got some traction. This quickly motivated me to clean it up and re-realse it as a more refined and easy-to-use asset pack.

I plan keep working on this series as time goes on and make sure that it eventually lives up to its name, Platformer Essentials.

This is where I need you, please comment on what you feel like the next theme should be and we can start a discussion!