Castle Squads — Samurai Strategy Art & Audio

Download the free sampler first, then get the complete collection when you are ready.

Castle Squads is a Japanese-inspired strategy-game art and audio collection. It pairs hand-worked ink-and-parchment illustrations with a separate compact pixel-art No-Dachi unit set; the assets share a feudal theme rather than one identical rendering style. Character figures keep their supplied animation canvases and sprite sheets; they are not cropped or recentered for this listing.

Free sampler

The free download contains a Samurai sprite, its walk sheet and preview, a village hut, one koi, pine foliage, a river connector atlas with Tiled setup notes, two UI pieces, and one original menu-click sound. It is a usable subset of the full collection.

Complete collection

The paid download combines the current art and audio collections into one ZIP. The art archive has more than 1,900 source and export files: Samurai and No-Dachi animation frames and sheets, castles and village buildings, a bridge, koi, Japanese foliage, banners, combat effects, interface elements, river and walkway connector atlases, Tiled/GDevelop examples, and animation previews. The Samurai hit-reaction sequence is not included. The character sheets show katana and long-sword actions; separate standalone weapon sprites are not included.

• Samurai sequences: idle, walk, death/fall, and katana action; transparent frame PNGs and sheets where supplied.
• No-Dachi: 17-frame idle, 17-frame walk, and 41-frame attack.
• Audio: 26 locally synthesized WAV sound effects and four Mureka-generated MP3 tracks, including one marked archival.

Build a province

Place a castle and village structures, connect a river or walkway, and add terrain, foliage, koi, effects and interface elements.

Animation previews

The gallery shows Samurai movement and combat, No-Dachi movement, both character sets, and battlefield contents. The full animation canvases are retained; use the transparent PNG frames and sheets from the downloads in-game.

License and disclosure

The free sampler is dedicated under CC0 1.0, to the extent TheCrudeForge holds rights it can waive. The complete paid collection is offered under CC BY 4.0, to the extent TheCrudeForge holds rights it can license. Each download includes its license and the full pack includes per-file audio provenance. The Mureka tracks remain subject to the terms and rights caveats stated in those files.

AI disclosure: the collection includes AI-assisted visual artwork and PixelLab animation work, Mureka-generated music, and locally synthesized sound effects made with some AI-assisted generator code. No Freesound recordings or other third-party audio samples are included. Mureka rights evidence was recorded on 2026-09-30 for a Premier plan valid through 2026-10-09; no claim of uniqueness, exclusivity, or copyright registration is made.

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