Castle Paradox

Penn · **Weaver of Silence** Joined: 23 Nov 2010 Posts: 10

Here's an idea that has probably already been suggested.
Instead of creating a full game, make several walkabout graphics, monsters (w/stats), maptiles, items, and a few basic attacks. Then, use the process you would use to distribute a game. Don't put a password on the file.
Then, those among us who may not be good at pixel art, but have good ideas for a game, can expand upon your kit to create an entire game.
Thoughts?

Gizmog1 · Posted: Mon Dec 27, 2010 10:29 am Post subject:

The idea's been kicked around a few times, but it boils down to a "Give a man a fish/teach a man to fish" thing. If you've got a good idea for a game, bad graphics aren't going to get too much in the way of that, and with a little practice you can get to where you need to be. That said, I *think*, and you'll have to check with Fenrir to be sure, that Vikings of Midgard is designed to be that kind of a "Take a look at how I did it!" thing.

And don't forget there's an art forum where people might be able to help you learn.

Blacklight_Studios · Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:03 am Post subject:

Doesn't RPG Maker already kinda already do that standard? i remember looking at it once, and it seemed to have preloaded graphics in it. I could be just be mistaken, though, so don't take my word for that.
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Ronin Catholic · Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:55 am Post subject:

Kenji Murasame · **Shizuma** Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 103 Location: ON TO

Even with available premade graphics, I think anybody using them would be worse off critically than somebody who drew badly.

FyreWulff · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:35 am Post subject:

I thought this was the whole point of Vikings, since it's now the pack in game and Wandering Hamster is not, to keep new users from thinking that WH's graphics were re-usable?

But if anyone wanted to do this they could just make OHR-friendly tilesets and walkabout sheets and release them under a Creative Commons or similiar license. No need to package it into an .RPG file

Bob the Hamster · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:11 am Post subject:

Content from Wandering Hamster is only reusable in games with GPL compatible licenses.

I agree that spritesheets is probably the best way for people to share graphics. A big ol' zip file of bmp files :)

TMC · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 6:32 pm Post subject:

I collected links to free sprite packs at 'Free Sprites'. I know that there have been other ones which I can't find. If you did a thorough search of CP's forums and gamelist I'm sure would find more.
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chronoboy · Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 9:22 am Post subject: