NEW YEAR SALE 2025

63% off individual asset packs and $1.57 for all packs combined.

At this moment that includes 1600+  texture maps, 300+ 3d asset files, 150+ video clips or VFX elements. Some of the packs here are becoming very popular and for good reason, those are the ones that have developed to the point of being really stellar collections of useful material for game developers!

Standout packs with released material in them include these:

https://matthornb.itch.io/tacc2018 (my first and now most extensive collection in terms of textures and decals)

https://matthornb.itch.io/pbr-seamless-textures-pack-2022 (my most popular asset pack, in sheer downloads and user ratings, due to inclusion in the Palestine Aid Bundle in early 2024, and like the above, has many high quality photography based seamless textures)

https://matthornb.itch.io/stock-3d-nature-models-pack - seeing an ascent in popularity and enthusiasm recently due to inclusion in the Unstoppable Bundle. Lots of marsh and meadow ground plants and details, and is one of a trio of broad nature packs I have launched and continue to update based on North American flora (trees, flowers, etc) recreated in 3d. The 'forests and flowers' and 'snow and sand' packs are the other two:

https://matthornb.itch.io/stock-3d-forests-flowers-asset-pack

https://matthornb.itch.io/stock-3d-snow-sand-collection

There are also a furniture and interiors pack with various indoor objects, which will finally see a major update very soon along with other January additions to existing collections.

https://matthornb.itch.io/furniture-and-interiors-asset-pack-2020

And outdoor manmade objects for street scenes:

https://matthornb.itch.io/street-details

Finally, if you want even more packs of high quality textures, here are two packs worth a look between the first and most recent:

https://matthornb.itch.io/autumn-2018-bonus-collection

https://matthornb.itch.io/2020-bonus-texture-asset-pack

Those numerous links are the most extensive collections I currently have downloadable but a handful of other asset packs exist as little freebie packs or incomplete / smaller paid items that are not as good a value as the ones above when bought as one offs but pretty nice as smaller extras in a big bundle sale like this one.

The end goal is to have a truly enormous collection all in all, of a vast range of very affordable assets for numerous purposes. I have a Middle East, Horror, Scifi, Medieval, Europe pack and those are listed and included as preorder items but at the moment not complete, not downloadable. I am working on them though along with expansions of existing sets. Similarly at profile bottom a list of indie games I am working on that aren't out yet and still in varying stages of completion. Several have been efforts ongoing for over five years in some form. 

So once again, for anyone new here, and for anyone not new, you likely already have heard this here a bunch of times:

Not everything in the bundle is already released, only about 60% of all listings are actually accessible and useful in any way at this time. But I am working on major updates even if often they are far behind schedule.

The fact is that my Etsy shop was deliberately shut down in November 2024 to focus on this (actually getting indie games completed, building on asset packs and texture, 3d collections.)

The reality also remains that despite a lot of work since that point, relatively few actual updates have been posted here since that pivot. There are several '2024' collections that for various reasons won't make it to release in 2024 but will become available in January or February 2025.

Part of that is simple, from Dec. 23 to Jan. 2, give or take, I am with family here in the Pittsburgh suburbs where I live, not everyone but definitely focused on time with my sister, her three children, and my two parents who are living through retirement in the area as well. We are gathering for the rest of 2024 here so updates won't be likely until that is over. 

I do have a few major additions in motion a d really close to ready, likely to see release in early January between New Years and the following sale (MLK jr. day, in mid January) and those include incremental expansions to five existing asset packs and a first actual release of the Middle East pack, plus some replacing/addition of images and such reflecting the change in year to 2025.

2025 will be a big year here. Late January - February, aiming for a first game launch, the release of two long awaited asset packs, and two more in March 2025. Again, all the unreleased stuff is in progress, even if it has moved slowly so far. I do see it all accelerating at this point and can imagine 80+% of the unreleased WIP material released by end of 2025. My goal is to have another 500+ 3d assets, 1200+ textures out and some significant game launches, and even a few truly surprising cool VFX things all in the next year. It is VERY likely the amount launched in 2025 will more than double the total volume of content currently on the profile, both because much of that upcoming stuff is well underway now, and because my rate of asset and game development has more than tripled since the pivot in November. 

So if you are impatient for this or that here, don't worry, a lot of new material is getting closer, moving faster from now on.

But in the meantime a lot is already here and the bundle's well worth it at this price even now. Literal years of my work for under $2.

And many of these asset collections will also be ported to Fab and Turbosquid over 2025 so that is going to become another option as mentioned on the teaser page hornbostelgames.com

FINALLY

Thanks everyone for your support and encouragement, and for making me realize there was actually an audience for all this creative content I wanted to make. Your feedback has convinced me to give this my full attention and make this my central focus, made me believe it could actually work out. And I couldn't be happier about that.