Style Cookbook

Mix your own art style from stackable look blocks.

Most stylized games pick one look and build everything around it. Style Cookbook turns a look into a recipe you can change: a stack of small blocks, each doing one job, that combine into one picture.

What you get

• styleKit, the core: the stack, ten slots, masks by depth, region or object group, a shared paper, a shared held clock for wobble and boil, marks that stay on surfaces, quality levels, an API, a shell toolbox and tests.
• Example blocks: posterize and duotone (colour), a clean depth line and a soft sketch line.
• starterBlocks: matte card, stepped light bands (whole frame or inside a material), flat wash, surface dots, plain paper, dark board, line boil, chunky pixels, soft grain and vignette, with a labelled gallery.
• The Lookbook: a scripted test scene and camera path that measures how a look holds up in motion, with numbers.
• Guides and a workflow: combine blocks into your own style, write your own block, build a small stylized game, and give any world a new look without touching its materials.

Try it

local StyleKit = require("~styleKit.StyleKit")
StyleKit.add("flatWash")
StyleKit.add("depthLine")
StyleKit.add("plainPaper")
StyleKit.swap("depthLine1", "sketchLine")   -- a new look, one change
StyleKit.clear()                            -- back to the rendered frame