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Create infinite animated pirate pixel characters with 2D Infinite Character Forge – a Procedural pixel character generator and animator.2D Infinite Character Forge – Pirates & Privateers generates animated pixel-art characters for age-of-sail games. Pirate captains, buccaneers, swashbucklers and deckhands, along with the redcoats, marines and naval officers hunting them, are all drawn by C# code in the Editor or at runtime. There are no pre-made sprite sheets: every character comes from a seed, so you get an unlimited cast that stays consistent.TRY DEMO HERE!Built for pirate gamesSixteen roles in two factions: eight pirates (Captain, Quartermaster, Buccaneer, Swashbuckler, Deckhand, Gunner, Privateer, Castaway) and eight crown forces (Redcoat, Grenadier, Marine, Army Officer, Naval Officer, Navy Sailor, Soldado, Governor). The crown forces are historical uniform types, with no flags or national insignia. Hooks and peg legs are chosen separately for each side and follow every animation, and a hooked hand still holds its cutlass or lantern. Cutlasses, boarding axes and belaying pins swing. Flintlocks, blunderbusses and muskets fire with black-powder smoke and are reloaded with the ramrod. Every item has a material, a craft level and a condition, from salvaged iron and driftwood to gilded plunder. Any character can join a cursed crew step by step, down to a bare skeleton, and their hook and peg leg rust instead of rotting.Suitable genresSide-view and top-down action games, roguelikes, tactics and strategy games, naval and colony sims, RPGs, auto-battlers and crowd scenes. The characters are small (about 16–25 px tall, plus hats and weapons), so they work well when there are a lot of them on screen. The included Standoff demo generates 340 animated characters live while the camera zooms out over a beach where pirates and crown forces face a cursed crew.Fully customizableChoose a role, race, gear grade, wear and how often hooks and peg legs appear, or let the role pick sensible defaultsSet material, craft and condition for each of the four gear slots, and turn individual wear types on or offPick a hook and a peg leg for each side separately, with your own wood and iron coloursTurn any character into one of the risen dead in six stages, or with a 0–100 slider; armed dead keep fightingCreate your own races as data assets with live previews, without writing a rendererChange the art style (canvas size, outline, colours) without touching the character dataChange the appearance at runtime through a simple API; animations rebuild automaticallyAll C# source is included and editableReady for gameplayThere are 42 animation slots, including Shoot, Reload, Kneel Fire, Prone Fire, Crouch Fire, Grenade Throw, March, Salute, Tip Hat, melee attacks, Hurt, Die and the undead slots Shamble, Lurch, Grab, Bite and Rise. Animation events fire on the exact shot and strike frames, and ShotFired fires once per round. Export as PNG, editable prefabs, baked animated prefabs or JSON presets, or generate everything at runtime. The deterministic generator always gives the same character for the same seed.It works on all Unity platforms with no required dependencies, and needs Unity 2022.3 or newer. An optional URP lit sprite shader is included.Try also:Infinite Character Forge - Age of GunpowderInfinite Character Forge - Alien SwarmInfinite Character Forge - Ancient ArmiesInfinite Character Forge - AnimalsInfinite Character Forge - Army Pack U.S.Infinite Character Forge - Beasts & MonstersInfinite Character Forge - ChristmasInfinite Character Forge - Cozy LifeInfinite Character Forge - HorrorInfinite Character Forge - Pirates & PrivateersInfinite Character Forge - ShogunInfinite Character Forge - SteampunkInfinite Character Forge - SuperheroesInfinite Character Forge - VikingsInfinite Character Forge - WastelandInfinite Character Forge - Wild WestPackage type: Editor tool + runtime library (procedural 2D pixel-art character generator). No pre-made sprite sheets: all character art is generated by C# code in the Editor or at runtime.Generated imagesFrame size: 112×80 px by default (32×32 style canvas plus padding for animations; the style canvas can be set from 16 to 128 px)Characters are about 16–25 px tall, plus hats and weapons. The sprite pivot is at the feet; 16 pixels per unit by default.Color depth: 32-bit RGBA (Texture2D RGBA32, point filtering, no mipmaps)Transparency: fully transparent background, sprites have hard alpha edges; partial alpha only on black-powder smoke pixels in the firing animationsExport: PNG (integer scale 1–16×), editable prefabs, baked animated prefabs (sprite atlas per animation, with the wear baked in), JSON presets, 64×64 equipment product images, and a material-map render for building custom masksContent16 roles in 2 factions (8 pirates, 8 crown forces) × 13 race variants in 8 families; unlimited variations from seedsHooks and peg legs per side (linked or separate sides, None/Rare/Common generation, custom wood and iron colours); occasional eyepatches and gold earrings on piratesGear quality on 4 slots: 5 materials (salvaged iron, cast iron, steel, ship’s brass, gilded steel), 3 craft levels (makeshift, shipwright, armoury), condition 0–100 and 5 wear types (dirt, rust, patches, tears, damage). 6 grade presets: Salvage, Weathered, Serviceable, Fine, Masterwork, Plunder. 3 wear levels: Fresh, Seasoned, Hardened.16 weapons (8 melee, 7 muzzle-loading firearms, 1 grenado), 12 headwear types, 16 outfits, 6 belts and chest pieces, 7 back items, 7 offhand items, 5 neckwear items, 2 glove types and 4 boot typesThe risen dead: 6 stages (Bitten, Turning, Risen, Rotting, Decayed, Skeleton) or 0–100 progress, on any role and race42 animation slots, 265 frames in total (3–12 frames each)Included files: 117 C# scripts, 2 demo scenes (Showcase, Standoff), 6 documentation preview images (PNG), documentation (Markdown), 137 EditMode testsArchitecturePure C# drawing engine (no UnityEngine types) with deterministic generation, plus thin Unity components (PixelCharacterView, PixelCharacterAnimator, ForgeCharacter)Editor window, inspectors, race preset editor, prefab exporter, equipment product image window, scene buildersSeparate assembly definitions: Runtime, Editor, Samples, TestsMain API: PirateLibrary.Generate (with PirateOptions), CharacterAnimationRenderer.RenderFrame / RenderMaterialMap, PixelCharacterView.SetRole / SetProsthetics / SetGrade / SetQuality / SetWear / SetZombieStage / SetZombieProgress / SetEquipment / SetRace / SetDefinition, plus animation events (AttackMoment, ShootMoment, ShotFired, AnimationCompleted)Characters are serialized as JSON-compatible data (CharacterDefinition)Dependencies: None required. Optional: URP + Shader Graph for the included lit sprite shader (URP 3D renderer); Unity Test Framework for the included EditMode tests.Platforms: All Unity platforms (managed C# only, no native plugins). On WebGL, generation runs on the main thread; on other platforms the Standoff demo uses worker threads.Limitations: Animations and gear quality are visual only; movement, projectiles, collision, damage and durability are handled by your game. Effects (muzzle flash, black-powder smoke, thrown grenados) are drawn into the sprite frames, not particle systems. No ships, boats, cannons or animals.Unity version: 2022.3 or newerDesign helpBug huntProblem solvingDevil's advocatePackage creation