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i got an idea the other day for something kind of like a jam but not really, i thought you might like it.

i thought it would be cool to make a collaboration with other people, to make a big eclectic tileset that would be licensed cc0. we would choose a topic, palette and size, eg.

“sci-fi top down rpg, endesga32, 24x24px”

and within that everyone contribute h some tiles for the tileset, whatever they like as long as they keep with the limitations

the goal would be to make a big ecclectic quantity-over-quality tileset thats 100% free to use and expand. what do you think?

dustdfg235 days ago

I've been thinking last days about creation of new project/series of jams based on this idea. it is also partially reminds Fuck Capitalism Jam. So I wanted to give it a name by twisting two words: insane and world/land. As you could understand from the name the idea is to uncover insanity and stupidity of our world. There are many insane things people see every day and can't understand it is insane or stupid... Just a veil which doesn't let you to see through it... The idea was is to collect explanations. In different forms: game, art, book, essay, literally almost any medium... I even drew one drawing about proprietary software

dustdfg235 days ago

It is a very wise idea. You have a potential to reach those wizards (if you haven't become one of them yet) ...

Read about LPC. Liberated Pixel Cup is a project of OGA you could see there assets with [LPC] part in the start of the

I don't think that itch isn't good for CC0 and collaboration at least when combined together. I saw many times when people set in metadata "it is CC0" but in description they write something like "no redistribution". And it is sad because I am one of the reasons that it happens... Most people on itch is about honor of an artist. Such people usually can't get along too long. At least if there will be one donation to the collaborative pack there will be some fights... And itch is more about centralization. Do you think it will live enough long with centralization? I like the way of lpc on OGA. There just a bunch of assets of different artist. with a [LPC] part in the name and it fits other tiles of this incredibly world.

quantity-over-quality

It is good to accommodate as many people as possible but I don't really think it is a good idea to sacrifice one style. It will more likely look like several packs merged into one and it would have sense if someone continues it but... It is again often against honor of creator.

“sci-fi top down rpg, endesga32, 24x24px”

I won't say anything specific about that except this emoji ≽^•⩊•^≼

thats 100% free to use and expand.

That's why I use only CC licenses for art and only open-source licenses for code

P.S In general I thought about it and want to do something like it. I really like this idea but I think we need something like in-between of follow style and do whatever you want while follow some very wide restrictions

dustdfg235 days ago

And as you proposed it I want to ask. Would you like to participate in such a big project? It is one of my concerns I didn't want to be alone in a project that aims to give people framework which they can expand...

peb235 days ago (1 edit)

for sure, i would love to contribute some tiles for something like this

the reason i think it would be cool for it to not be too restrictive in terms of quality and style is i think part of collective effort like this is that it can go beyond the mainstream notion of “quality” and “how good something is” and be more about the freedom of creating something and performing things together

so if you are too restrictive and say “this is ok, this is not ok” people might loose the enjoyment of it. but by using the same tile size and palette the tiles will in some ways match, and i think that would make a really interesting tileset

with that people could make games that are focused more on having diverse content, and not just pretty tiles

peb235 days ago

i also thought it would be good to first select the restrictions, and then create e.g. the first 10-20 tiles of the tileset

we could then tag other people, show whats already created and ask if they would like to contribute to it. i think there is a bigger chance someome might want go do it if its done this way

also we can then ask the people who join if they want to tag other artists they know to make something

dustdfg235 days ago

Yeah the seed is definitely required

peb235 days ago

i think maybe ill start noting down some general ideas for themes and then post them here. you can also post some, and then we can decide on an interesting theme. it would be nice for it to not be too generic. something that will allow for a broad range of tiles, but at the same time wont just be another dungeon tileset with orcs and elves (haha)

peb235 days ago

also maybe if we want to make this a thing, its a good moment to take this off of the publicly available thread… my email is pebonius at gmail dot com, you can hit me up there, i started working on some logic and rules for this already so we can exchange some ideas

peb235 days ago

maybe to give people inspiration and a better theme to follow, we could make a short “backstory” behind the tileset, and they could then expand on that theme

that would be more specific than just “sci-fi” or “steampunk”

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