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Hi everyone, I have a new project called RPG Designer. I created this project as my senior project in college for my bachelors in computer science(meaning I have to get it working or else I cannot graduate). "RPG Designer is an open source and cross platform rpg game creator toolkit that allows easy creation and distribution of 2d rpgs to your friends and clients no matter which operating system they use." The project itself is released under the New BSD license. I can code the project, but I am artistically challenged so I thought I would come here to see if anyone wanted to help by donating art.
For this project I need sets of blank 32x32 sprites one for male and one for female. Then I need a decent collection of hair for the male sprite, and hair for the female sprite. Then a decent collection of attire for each. With this collection I would be able to integrate a sprite editor into my project. Of course since this is to allow people to create their own rpgs, I don't need a specific style like scifi, western, etc. They should all look similar and play well together, but it should include a variety of different themes. They would have to be released under a license that played well with the new bsd license, so people could create their RPG games with my project and not worry about licensing issues with the art under their own projects.
I am also in great need of some awesome looking tilesets for the mapeditor I am working on. Different themes for this as well. They should be licensed under something that plays well with the new bsd as well for the same reasons.
There are tons of pieces of music and some great sound effects on this website already, that I feel will work well. But if anyone wants to specifically make some or point some out that will work well with the project I would greatly appreciate that as well.
Unfortunately being a poor college student I am not able to pay money for this. If multiple people wanted to help that would be ok. If you donate art/music I will add your name to credits under the help menu of the program.
Many thanks,
James
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If you need 32x32, you might consider using the 16x16 stuff and just doubling the size of it. If you're able to do that, we have pretty much everything you need already, here:
http://opengameart.org/content/oga-16x16-jrpg-sprites-tiles
There are plans to commission a set of 32x32, but that's probably 3 or 4 months out.
Bart
Sounds like quite the project. Do you have any specifics on hair and clothing or about how many of each you'd want?
I could probably start with the 16x16 for now but I would eventually like to move onto 32x32. Thanks for the suggestion and I am glad to hear that some 32x32 may soon be commissioned.
It is quite a project, but it will definitely be worth the time I put into it. I don't really have any specifics, but I can suggest some ideas in my head that might be a good starting place. I am not too picky though. Of course additional items besides or any part of my recommendations would also be great.
Hair: I would say 5 hairs for a male, one with a part on the side, one with smaller spikes, one with a bit larger spikes, and one probably similar to seta sojiro from rouroni kenshin. 5 for a female, which include 1 ponytail, 1 curly long, 1 straight long, 1 shorter, and on updo style of some sort. Colors on these don't matter too much, though it would be better if they were all one color. I can easily write some code that allow the user to change the color, significantly increasing the customization of the sprite.
Clothing: I would say 5 sets of clothing as well. A good start would be a set that looked sort of midievil fantasy including peasent clothes, royalty clothing, some sort of dressy clothes(for a girl a dress, a guy fancy suit or something), warriors armor, then maybe something else more casual that isn't quite peasent(for a girl it would be a skirt, and a guy would be nicer looking pants). I would probably also build in a color changer for these that allows for changing up to 3 of the colors on the clothing.
Probably the best layout for now would be to line them up the same as these sprites http://opengameart.org/content/twelve-16x18-rpg-character-sprites-including-npcs-and-elementals. So it has forward, right, back, then left facing with 3 frames.