20+ Incredible Midjourney Prompts to Create Game Assets
With visual examples, prompts, tricks and useful tools to elevate your visuals
Welcome to the world of game development, where captivating visuals and immersive experiences come to life. One of the key elements in creating an exceptional gaming experience is mastering game assets.
Game assets are the building blocks of any game, encompassing characters, environments, props, textures, and more. High-quality and well-optimized assets contribute to a visually stunning and engaging gaming experience.
Midjourney empowers artists to unleash their creativity and optimize their asset visualization and creation processes.
MidJourney is an amazing AI tool enabling you to create high-resolution images with simple text prompts. It’s a fantastic way to make your visuals come alive!
If you are new to MidJourney, follow this quick guide and prompts to start:
Today, I have prepared over 20 Midjourney Prompts in 5 Categories to inspire you to craft stunning assets for your game!
- Game Item
- Spritesheet
- Isometric Buildings
- Avatar and Characters
- Game Scene
- Use Case
Let’s get started!
1. Game Item
As always, let’s start with a basic game item prompt. This can be used to create items, props and weapons.
A Basic Game Item
Prompt: A game item, a sword, bright and vivid colorful, 3D rendering, C4D, blender
📌Trick One: Add Existing Game
You can twist the prompt with an existing game or add different materials and colors. Get creative and include your favorite game in the prompt.
- Biohazard
- Clash Royals
- Minecraft
- Starcraft
- Super Mario
- Zelda
Clash Royals Style
Prompt: A 3D magic portion icon, game rewards, clash royals style, blender, 3D, studio lighting, plain background
--ar 1:1 --niji 5 --style expressive
Super Mario Style
Prompt: A 3D magic game rewards trophy, Super Mario style, blender, 3D rendering, C4D, studio lighting, plain background
--ar 1:1 --niji 5 --s 180
Try also different materials
Dreamy Pastel Gloss Item
Keywords: Glossy based, Dreamy Pastel Color, Fine Luster, Soft Focus
Prompt: A treasure chest icon design, isometric, glossy based, dreamy pastel color, pink and blue and white, plain background, fine luster, soft focus, 3D rendering, C4D, blender
You can easily turn your image to vector for re-edit and customization or craft a transparent background
2. Item Sprite Sheet
Using the keyword sprite sheet allows you to generate a bunch of assets once at a time that comes in the same style.
A simple sprite sheet of treasure chests
Prompt: Game items spritesheet, treasure chest boxes
📌Trick Two: Include a Game Theme
Including a theme in the prompts can help create a more immersive and compelling gaming experience for their players. Here are some examples:
- Adventure
- Biohazard
- Car Racing
- Detectives
- Forest Exploration
- Magic
- Space
- Sports
- Zombies
Space Fight Game with Sci-fi Theme
Prompt: Pixel Game Asset sprite sheet, for space fight game, sci-fi theme
📌Trick Three: Include Specific Items:
If you cannot achieve the desired result, you can try to include all the items one by one in your prompt
Pixel sprite sheet
Prompt: Pixel game asset sprite sheet, with trees, grass, wood, rocks
Niji Expressive Style — Magic Portion Spritesheet
Prompt: Game items spritesheet, magic portion
--ar 1:1 --niji 5 --style expressive
📌Trick Four: Use Niji Mode
The latest Niji Anime is amazing for crafting game assets, especially the Expressive and Cute styles.
Niji Cute Style — Treasure Chest Spritesheet
Prompt: Game items spritesheet, treasure chest boxes
--ar 1:1 --niji 5 --style cute
3. Isometric Items and Buildings
Isometric elements are crucial for realistic game scenes, creating captivating 3D environments with intricate landscapes, diverse objects and vehicles, breathing life into virtual worlds.
Keywords for 3D
To create a more realistic 3D effect, you will usually need these keywords which are tools for creating stunning visual effects and speeding up the process of producing 3D graphics.
- 3D
- C4D
- Isometric
- Blender
- OC rendering
An Item — Mailbox
Prompt: A 3D game asset, gradient glass, cartoon mailbox, isometric, colorful color matching, C4D OC rendering, clean shadow
A Vehicle — Truck
Prompt: A game asset, a 3D robotic truck, sci fi, robotic, mechanic, isometric, 3D rendering, OC rendering, C4D, blender, studio lighting, plain background, pixel sprites adventurers, navy green and orange and brown and orange
A Landscape — Temple
Prompt: An isometric temple, 3D, OC rendering, tilt shift, C4D, blender, amazing epic ancient theme, cinematic, stunning, vivid, vibrant, unreal engine, concept art, on a white background
To create a visually outstanding structure, it is great to add interior design and architectural prompts:
4. Avatar and Character
Avatars and characters are essential components of any game design. They provide a way for players to interact with the game and its environment, as well as give them an identity within the virtual world.
Avatars can come in many forms, from a human-like character to an animal or even a robot.
A Game Character
Prompt: A game avator, a young assasin, with saber and sword, martial art style, realistic lighting and shading, detailed renderings, dark beige and navy, close up view
Different Views
When working with 3D modeling tools, you often have different views of the objects. You can also achieve this in Midjourney like this one below:
Prompt: Full body, three views, front view, side view, back view, 3d anime character, a shojo anime kitsune girl, octane rendering
--ar 3:2 --niji 5 --s 180
In creating characters, there are two cool words to try and they are
- Anthropomorphism
- Zoomorphism
Anthropomorphism
Attributing human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object.
Prompt: A game avatar, a bear anthropomorphism, wizard, amazing epic ancient theme,realising lighting and shading, full body composition
--ar 1:1 --niji 5 --s 180
If you have read one of my trending articles on incredible prompts, you may be familiar with these two keywords.
Zoomorphism
Describe art that imagines humans as non-human animals.
Prompt: A game avatar, Zoomorphism of lizard, cyberpunk theme, cinematic, stunning, realizing lighting and shading, vivid, vibrant, full body shot, 3D rendering, C4D
5. Game Scene
Visually stunning game scenes are an essential part of game design. They create a visually immersive environment that draws players in and keeps them engaged.
Here are some sceneries to try:
- Lab
- Forest
- School
- Hospital
- The Space
- Underwater
- Wasteland
A Bio Lab
Prompt: A game scene,a futuristic bio science lab with masked doctors
Enchanted Woods
Promtp: A game scene, for wood exploration game, enchanted woods, with glowing plants , with wooden platforms
📌 Trick Five: Niji Scenic
The scenic Style of Niji is a definitely must try to create beautiful landscapes and settings.
Underwater Castle
Prompt: An underwater exploration game scene, interior of an underwater castle, with beaitful coral reefs around, with tropical fishes, beautiful sunlight shining through
--ar 3:2 --niji 5 --s 180 --style scenic
A Cozy Tavern
Prompt: A game scene, a cozy tavern interior, pixel sprites adventurers, cinematic lighting
--ar 3:2 --niji 5 --s 180 --style scenic
📌 Trick Six: Enrich the Scene with an Art Style
- 8-bit / 16-bit Pixel Art
- Anime
- Cartoon
- Manga
- Realistic
16-bit Pixel Art
Prompt: 16-bit pixel art role play game, a beatiutiful maid in pink hair and a handsome butler in silver hair, in a coffee shop
--ar 3:2 --niji 5 --s 180
📌 Trick Seven: Incorporate a Material to add Texture
A Treasure Hunt Game Map on Papyrus Paper
Prompt: A game map, on papyrus sketch paper, vintage style, treasure hunt map, with checkpoint highlighted in red
A Simple Use Case: Create your own Game Map
1. Design A Background with Midjourney
Let’s start with a scene
Prompt: A game background image, a huge map with many lands, amazing epic ancient theme, cinematic, stunning, realistic lighting and shading, vivid, vibrant, unreal engine, concept art
2. Create Individial Asset
Prompt: An isometric castle, tilt shift, 3D, OC rendering, C4D, blender, epic ancient theme, cinematic, stunning, vivid, vibrant, unreal engine, concept art, plain background
To ensure the assets look consistent in an overall style, I used seed numbers to help.
Seed is a parameter in Midjourney that allow you to produce images with a similar style. Learn more about using seed here:
I used the same prompt with the seed command to produce a number of assets
An isometric [ item /building ], tilt shift,3D, OC rendering, C4D, blender, epic ancient theme, cinematic, stunning, vivid, vibrant, unreal engine, concept art, plain background
3. Turn the background transparent
You can easily achieve transparency with the help of a tool so you can place your assets freely in the game scene
4. Turn the Image to Asset
Individual isometric items can be used as assets in game-building software like Unity to create something similar to the image below
Unity is a cross-platform game engine that develops video games for PC, consoles, mobile devices, and websites. You can import images as assets or sprites and make them clickable and interactable.
This is just a very simple example. And there are amazing people creating games with Midjourney and Unity already.
A Game Designed with Midjourney by Nao_u
As always, this is a formula to follow to create stunning game assets
A game [ asset/ scene/ character ], [ main item/building/ character] [ game type ], [ 1- 3 descriptive keywords ], [ style and material — optional ] , plain background
Extra: Useful AI Tool for Game Assets
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