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Haha I did ask what you’d want! Unfortunately I don’t see myself doing any themes from the Bathysphere art style much less a playable demo. More likely I’d do a Nine Realms and Retro Cybercity Demo. I have a third theme in the works (for way too long now… I first hinted at it like a year ago) and that will probably launch w/ a playable demo to show off how the assets are used together.

Shouldn’t be a problem re: Commercial Rights – if I created something like this I’d treat it as an extra tool for devs who need it and sell it separately. Or, if there’s no market for that, I could see adding it as an optional DL to some of my existing content.

I’ve played with the idea of “starter kits” that include less overall assets from each category (icons, portraits, sprites, tiles, etc) but with enough bases covered for ppl to buy ONE kit and start making their game w/o having to wait for me to get around to missing asset categories. Additional assets would then become like “booster packs” – don’t mind my TCG lingo, it just seems like a good analogy to what I initially thought I’d do. Right now I have no idea if that would even work (probably too pricey? portraits are expensive for example). That was another way I thought I might be able to incorporate demos built specifically to show users how I do things.

What I should really do is create a discord or Kofi or something so ppl like yourself can suggest ideas and have a say in where my work is going since I often wind up spread thin between a bunch of competing, unfinished new content! Too many ideas, not enough time!