Sprite Lamp overview

Overview

Sprite Lamp comes from Snake Hill Games and is published by Snake Hill Games. It arrived on Steam on Sep 25, 2014, and it sits naturally among Animation & Modeling and Design & Illustration. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows, macOS, and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Sprite Lamp's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 16 October 2026 - 20:56:53 UTC, with a tracked peak near 1. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 60% positive across 20 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Sprite Lamp is available in 1 languages including:

regional rating details listed by Steam when available

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Sprite Lamp has sold up to 1,584 units and has recommendation data pending. The estimated VGI revenue is $39,920. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Sprite Lamp overview details

Sprite Lamp combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

Sprite Lamp is a tool for combining the styles possible with 2D art, such as painted or pixel-art looks, with dynamic lighting found in modern games. Game developers will be able to make games in the style of classics like Metal Slug or Braid, combined with the gameplay and visual appeal made possible by moving or otherwise changing light sources. This is achieved by the artist painting an object lit from several directions, images called 'lighting profiles', and then processing them into normal maps, depth maps, ambient occlusion maps, and a few others. Sprite Lamp also includes a variety of shaders designed to get the most out of these maps. How it works Sprite Lamp is all about letting artists paint images in a form they are familiar with, and using those images to create the more difficult or counterintuitive maps that are required by modern shaders. This primarily takes the form of painting the same subject lit from a few different directions - between two and five - and processing these images to create a normal map and a depth map. Rendering Sprite Lamp includes a preview window and various shader options to let you experiment and find out what looks best with your artwork. Sprite Lamp's shaders are included in Sprite Lamp in GLSL form, fully commented, and can be used as a base for including them in your own game. A growing list of Sprite Lamp shaders for common game engines is available at . Sprite Lamp's preview window supports: Moveable light source with variable colour, intensity, and attenuation Hemispheric ambient lighting Cel shading Self shadowing with…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Sprite Lamp is listed as a game with $34.99. It supports Windows and macOS, belongs to Animation & Modeling and Design & Illustration, and is associated with Animation & Modeling and Design & Illustration. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 16 October 2026 - 20:56:53 UTC, a tracked peak of 1, and 60% positive reviews.

Support and legal notes

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