Bring your own shimeji

Drop in a shimeji .zip or .rar package to unpack it and try it out right here — nothing is uploaded until you say so.

A package is a .zip or .rar archive with one folder per character, each containing a handful of sprite images. Packages built this way are commonly shared across the shimeji community. Optional actions.xml and behaviors.xml files control how a character moves — if they're missing, a default animation is used instead.

MyShimeji.zip
├── img/
│   └── MyCharacter/
│       ├── shime1.png
│       └── shime2.png
├── actions.xml     (optional)
└── behaviors.xml   (optional)

Starting from scratch instead? Use the Shimeji Editor to build sprites and a package of your own.