Witch's Hut — Arcane Curiosities Vol.5

Try before you buy: the black cat, jack-o'-lantern and toadstool ring are free in Free Witch Starter.

Animated pixel-art props for top-down witch cottages and harvest games.

Witch's Hut (Arcane Curiosities Vol.5) by Aurum Nocturne brings 12 props and 42 animations to top-down and 3/4-view games. Built for top-down RPGs, cozy witch games, and Halloween jams or October updates, it shares the 32-colour palette and top-left lighting of Vol.1–4.

What makes it different

• Seamless chaining: Every one-shot action ends on the loop's first frame, pixel for pixel, so chaining never pops (ignite → fire, open → open-idle, takeoff → hover, turn → haunted, hiss → idle).
• Strict palette: Colour variants swap ramps within the same 32 colours; never new colours.
• Godot 4 ready: SpriteFrames resource and scene per prop, node origin at floor point (wall pieces at mount point), demo project checked in Godot 4.6.
• AI-agent ready: SKILL.md and catalog.json list every prop, animation, chain, and anchor for coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex).
• Any engine: Horizontal sprite strips and JSON (frame size, fps, loop, anchor) at 10 fps.

Contents — 12 props, 42 animations

• Jack-o'-lantern, 32x32: fire (warm candle), witch (violet), soul (blue), unlit (dark face, wisp of smoke), ignite (one-shot: catches spark and flares into fire). Light spills through carved face onto floor.
• Black cat, 32x32: on a velvet cushion, bell collar. idle (tail swish, ear twitch, blink), groom (licks paw), hiss (one-shot: arches, bristles, bares fangs), sleep (curled up, breathing).
• Pumpkin patch, 48x32: idle (leaves rustle, tendrils curl), grow (one-shot: middle pumpkin swells from green bud to ripe orange), harvested (stumps, one small pumpkin left).
• Toadstool ring, 48x32: fairy ring of red spotted and glowing violet toadstools. idle (caps pulse out of phase), spores (glowing spores drift up), awaken (one-shot: light runs around ring, flares).
• Witch's broom, 32x48: lean (stands on bristles, glint slides down handle), hover (floats level, bobbing, violet sparkles), takeoff (one-shot: lifts and swings level).
• Scarecrow, 32x64: floppy witch hat, patched coat. idle (sways in wind), haunted (eyes, mouth burn orange, embers), turn (one-shot: head turns to viewer, eyes ignite).
• Herb rack, 48x48, wall piece: sage, garlic braid, lavender, rowan berries, dried-lizard charm. idle (bundles sway out of step), breeze (gust, leaf and floret fall), dried (browned, withered).
• Mortar table, 48x48: stone mortar, candle, toadstools, rune scrap. idle (candle flicker, steam), grind (pestle grinds alone, green dust, rune pulses), brewed (one-shot: violet cloud bursts and settles).
• Spinning wheel, 48x48: idle (glint along needle-sharp spindle), spin (wheel turns, treadle pumps), cursed (spins alone, violet yarn, sparks).
• Owl on a perch, 32x48: idle (breathing, slow blinks), look (one-shot: head swivels and back), hoot (one-shot: puffs up, sound arcs), night (dark plumage, glowing eyes).
• Bat roost, 48x32, ceiling piece: idle (three bats hang, sway), flutter (one-shot: drop, fly off), empty (beam, cobweb), return (one-shot: fly back in).
• Hut door, 48x64: closed (charm sways, lantern and crack firelight flicker), open (one-shot: swings into firelit room, green cauldron glow), open-idle, close (one-shot: thuds shut, dust puff).

Free starter on this page: jack-o'-lantern, black cat and toadstool ring, complete.

Pairs well with

Graveyard & Chapel (Vol.4), Arcane Curiosities Vol.1 (cauldron, potion shelf, crystal ball), and Magic Circle VFX Vol.3 (hex and moon circles).

License

Commercial and non-commercial games OK. Modify freely. No reselling or redistributing; no AI training. Credit appreciated.

How it's made

Made with Tessarune, a deterministic pixel-art compiler: every shape, ramp and frame is authored as code; no image-generation model involved. The programs were written with AI assistance.