Hello! Will you be able to participate in the 8 pixel asset pack jam?
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yeah i think i will try to submit something
i had a specific idea i wanted to do for the last one with an isometric character sprite, but i wouldnt be able to make it on time
but i should have more time during next one!
by the way i need to try doing some isometric art sooner or later. the tileset that tiopalada did for the jam was fking crazy! i follow him on mastodon but i was surprised when he joined the jam
the logo truly is a masterpiece ;D
i said i will do something for the jam, so i posted my “submission” here https://itch.io/post/9925831
i really do think the theme of the jam is great and i think it might get some really cool submissions
that being said i cant really make a submission to the jam, which is because of something you wrote
The additional challenges are exactly/especially for you
i know you didnt mean it that way, but that kind of sounds like the theme of the jam is made in such a way that the results would be skewed in my favor. i know thats not actually what would happen, i dont expect i would win or anything, but the way you put it sounds like that, and so i decided not to submit
you started these jams around the time that i started to learn pixel art, and ive taken part i think in most of them. they were big part of my motivation to continue learning pixel art. so i dont want to do something that could in some way (even if its just in my brain) damage the integrity of those jams.
i know the jams might seem “small” right now, but there is already some amazing art that was created as result of them, and i think they have a potential to grow, or maybe pixel art jams even as a trend will grow on itch, and more ppl will start doing them. so i think what youre doing is really cool and worth protecting in this way :)
sorry if this sounds weird, but thats the way i feel and thats my decision 🦧
They are very quality so it you can just not to submit the pack to the jam buy upload it as an asset pack on itch.
I understand your concerns. Your thinking is very correct but there some "but's":
- The main theme is portrait. They are additional
- I wrote those additional themes for you to create a bit of a challenge for you. Because at some point I had understood that you draw portraits often so for you this jam won't be interesting that means there will be one submission less...
- I decided to start adding some random additional themes/restrictions because somewhere in 2-4 jams someone complained about jams are about challenge so "1bit/isometric doesn't give you a seed from where to start"
So I just decided to kill two rabits with one shot. The elementals part is what I wanted to draw and just decided to add it because it is something like theme while the main "theme" of the jam is restriction
The vibrant colors is really a challenge concretely for you. I noticed that you usually avoid them but it is a jam and as I noticed you usually like drawing challenges so I added it as another point
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?
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
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
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)