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...
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
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
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)