Chipico

Chipico is a browser-based tileset & tilemap editor for pixel art, made mainly for my own projects. It's still a work in progress (beta), so things may change and there are likely rough edges — but it's already usable for drawing tiles, laying them out on a map, and exporting them for use in a game engine.

Currently in beta — feedback and bug reports are welcome.

What it does

• Tile + map in one place — draw individual tiles, then place them on a map canvas without switching tools
• Export for game engines — PNG tilesets/maps at common sizes, plus Tiled-compatible JSON, intended to be importable into things like RPG Maker, Unity, or Godot
• Runs in the browser — no install needed
• Japanese / English UI

Drawing tools

Pen & eraser (adjustable brush size), bucket fill, eyedropper, and shape tools — rectangle, ellipse, polygon, and freehand lasso — each with solid-fill or outline-only modes.

Selection tools

Rectangle, lasso, and magic-wand selection (with add/subtract modifiers), plus select-all, invert, and copy.

Editing

• Undo / redo
• Horizontal & vertical mirror drawing
• Rotate (90°/180°) and flip
• Outline generator — auto-trace the silhouette of your art with configurable placement (inside/outside), direction (4/8-way or axis-only), and tile-boundary linking

Layers

Independent layer stacks for both tile editing and map drawing — add, delete, reorder, merge, adjust opacity, alpha-lock, and clipping.

Palette

HSV color picker with RGB/HEX readout, built-in presets (Sweetie 16, PICO-8, Dawnbringer, Endesga, AAP-64, grayscale, rainbow), or auto-extract a palette straight from an image.

Navigator & stamps

Browse and select tiles from a navigator panel; select a block of multiple cells and place them together as a single stamp.

Save & export

• Save/load your work as a native project file (.chip)
• Export tileset or map as PNG (×1/2/4/8)
• Export map data as Tiled-compatible JSON

Handy shortcuts

B Pen · E Eraser · G Bucket · I Eyedropper · R Rect select · L Lasso select · W Wand select · Shift+O Outline · Ctrl+Z / Ctrl+Y Undo/Redo · Shift+drag constrain to a straight line · Esc / Ctrl+D Deselect

It's a small, still-growing project — thanks for trying it out. If you run into bugs or have suggestions, I'd appreciate hearing about them.