Needed: castle tileset
Hello everyone. I work on Hero of Allacrost, a 2D open source RPG that started development in 2004. We've release several playable demos of the game, which you can download here if you're interested, and are finally ready to move on to producing the real deal. We have a large number of our art resources met for our upcoming release, but we're still missing a cruicial tileset: one which to build a castle with. I've looked around on OGA (yes, our game does use some resources found on OGA) but the only castle tileset I could find would not fit our needs. Below is a sample mock-up that uses all of the few exisiting tiles we currently have to build our castle with.
All our tiles are 32x32 format stored in PNG format, using native PNG transparency. The size of a standard adult sprite in our game is 32x64 pixels (1x2 tiles). The perspective is similar to Final Fantasy VI or Chrono Trigger. We draw our tiles in three layers (ground, middle, and upper). The requirements are generic enough that I'm sure these art resources will be able to be utilized by other projects.
All of our current tileset assets can be found in our SVN repository by following below. You can view the art in your web browser for each PNG image. In particular the tileset "castle_exterior_01.png" is the one we need to expand upon. We'll likely add tiles to a new castle_interior tileset as well when we are ready.
Hero of Allacrost -- SVN Tileset Images
To get a better sense of our perspective, take a look at our screenshots. A couple of the ones relevant to this resource request are embedded below. You can examine more screenshots on our website.
In particular, the castle we are trying to construct is based off of the following concept art. This castle is situated in the center of a desert kingdom.
It should be pretty obvious what we are missing. We need exterior walls, interior walls, interior floors, stone columns, windows, interior decorations, etc. My hope is that various talented people will contribute one piece of the puzzle, which we can then add up together to create an excellent looking castle environment. I may throw in pieces myself, although my artistic skills are still only at the beginnering level. Of course if you'd like to work with us directly by joining our project, we'd be overjoyed. We currently have no artists working on the project (unless you count myself, and I'm primarily a programmer). Hence why this request is being made.
Any questions/comments, feel free to ask here or send me a message directly if you'd rather discuss something in private. Thanks everyone!
What are your licensing requirements? I'm using Inquisitor's excellent tilesets in my project, but they are not open enough for this site. Specifically, he says they are free to be used noncommercially, but can only be made available at rpg-palace.com.
Also, what license are your existing tilesets under?
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All of our content is licensed under GPLv2. We maintain a policy that anyone who contributes to the project retains the full rights to their original work and can do whatever they like with it, including providing it under a different license. The only agreement that is made is to allow us to use their content and distribute it under GPLv2.
Wow, thanks for linking me to those tilesets. Although they'll need some adjustments to work with our project, we can definitely make use of that work.