I would love to license this in different ways, but that would require permission from ALL of the 30 contributors, many of which have not participated in the project for 2 years.
I personally would like to convert the project to the public domain, it seems to solve all the hassle, but I really lack any knowledge of this licensing business to do much useful stuff. Anyone with experience or knowledge is welcome to advise me, and perhaps we can make the effort of asking all the contributors to get rid of the copyright.
Hi Dannorder (and Julius, who made a similar point earlier),
I am happy to see you are concerned about racism, so am I. However, I think you might see a couple things wrong here. At first, he is not 'the main enemy'. Game devs are free to use these sprites for whatever purpose they like, and we strive to include multiple fully animated characters. Actually in the old art style a native was the first and only to be completely animated as we intended him to be the hero of our game demo: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=16828
More importantly: All these sprites are cartoony caricatures. We can not play around with exaggerating certain features without creating unrealistic stereotypes, but this does not imply racism. If you check out our 'white' characters more carefully you will see that they also have exaggerated features.
This project is a collaboration project without boundaries, anyone from any culture is free to submit his opinions and artwork. You are invited to add the kind of sprites and characters you would like to see in this project, to increase the diversity . At last, if you think more discussion is necessary, I invite you to come over to our forums:)
The style will be overhauled soon, check out these new images I attached As soon as Bart is ready we will have the wiki online again, here at OGA We have a proper game demo running on the Frogatto Engine which you can find here
I would love to license this in different ways, but that would require permission from ALL of the 30 contributors, many of which have not participated in the project for 2 years.
I personally would like to convert the project to the public domain, it seems to solve all the hassle, but I really lack any knowledge of this licensing business to do much useful stuff. Anyone with experience or knowledge is welcome to advise me, and perhaps we can make the effort of asking all the contributors to get rid of the copyright.
Wonderful idea Sam!
Soon an animation thread should launch at our forums, once that is there I might make an effor to create Sara in OPP style myself!
Go for it, and show us the result!!
Amazing stuff! I have installed them to Grafx2 and will likely use some of these in future game projects :) Thanks a lot!
Hi Dannorder (and Julius, who made a similar point earlier),
I am happy to see you are concerned about racism, so am I.
However, I think you might see a couple things wrong here. At first, he is not 'the main enemy'. Game devs are free to use these sprites for whatever purpose they like, and we strive to include multiple fully animated characters.
Actually in the old art style a native was the first and only to be completely animated as we intended him to be the hero of our game demo: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=16828
More importantly: All these sprites are cartoony caricatures. We can not play around with exaggerating certain features without creating unrealistic stereotypes, but this does not imply racism. If you check out our 'white' characters more carefully you will see that they also have exaggerated features.
This project is a collaboration project without boundaries, anyone from any culture is free to submit his opinions and artwork. You are invited to add the kind of sprites and characters you would like to see in this project, to increase the diversity .
At last, if you think more discussion is necessary, I invite you to come over to our forums:)
See you around!
A quick message to let you know that we are back! Check out the updated wiki, and join our discussions at our forums :D
Awesome! I have recolored them and flipped them for use in the OPP project :D
Thanks for making these available :)
http://opp.opengameart.org/index.php/Clouds
To all 77 people who downloaded before this comment:
Thanks to Gabriel Hart (Noburo) the downloadable package is now even more complete and organized!
You can now download all the stuff here!
http://opengameart.org/content/open-pixel-platformer-tiles-sprites
Hey guys,
Just a tiny tiny update for you guys:
The style will be overhauled soon, check out these new images I attached
As soon as Bart is ready we will have the wiki online again, here at OGA
We have a proper game demo running on the Frogatto Engine which you can find here
http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=16828
All exciting stuff!
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