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Hey, thanks! No silly questions don't worry. 

If I'm understanding correctly, you want to print these for your tabletop games right? I think that's awesome!

As for what app or program to use, do you mean to set them up for printing or to use the assets to make scenes for your games? If the latter, then I'm not sure what the best answer would be. 

For making the mockups shown here (and the assets) I used Aseprite, which is a pixelart program with a cost of 20 USD. It has a tileset mode that is really awesome for making tiles and mockups really, but I think unless you're going to take up pixelarting then it's probably not the most accesible solution to your question.

Another program you might want to try (and one I've used for more than a decade myself) is GIMP. It's free but it's not really set up for tiling or pixelart from the get go, it'll be a bit tedious if I'm honest (compared to Aseprite or other programs dedicated to tiling).

Anyway, apologies if I didn't get your question right! Cheers

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Hey, thanks fopr the swift replies and the explanation.

So Ideally I would like to produce scenes and maps for my players. I don’t intend to print them ans most if not all of my games are online but yeah.

I can see gimp and similar apps working for this and yeah, I anticipated that it would be tedious. Are there other game-making or art-making engines I could use besides those? Having options is not a bad idea :D

Anyways, thanks again for the time, I appreciate it, and once I have something down I’ll definitely drop you an image or two :)

Oh I see. Well, for making scenes and maps through art programs I could recommend checking this pixelart software list curated by Lospec.

As for game-making engines or so, that's out of my field so I couldn't really provide you proper info on that matter. Perhaps check out Godot? Here's a list of resources from the Gamedev subreddit wiki. It covers several areas but including game engines.

I'm looking forward to anything you might make with these, cheers!

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THANK YOU!

Time for some research now :)

Essentially I runa bunch of science fantasy games and this 1-bit or otherwise pixelart visuals are just… right there, you know?

Again, I really appreciate the support!