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Hi,
Been playing around with the LPC spritesheets and am very impressed at the variety and quality. Eventually would love to integrate it in a game I have worked on in the past and this would give it a facelift.
The collection seems so vast, wondering if I missed some stuff. Looking to create a game based in the period of the Three Kingdoms, basically Han chinese soldiers. I saw some romain armor and helmets.
If nothing exists, any interest for someone to work on something like that? Idea of what it could cost?
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To my knowledge nothing like you described currently exists, however, there are some Japanese objects such as foo dogs and archetecture available here.
As for commissioning the costumes for your game, Redshrike made the original LPC sprites, but I don't believe he's active anymore. I'd recomend Bluecarrot16 for any commisions you have. He's one of the best LPC artists out there and takes plenty of commissions. You can look at his work here. Additionaly, BenCreating has submitted some costume commissions in the past, mainly for castleonia, but I don't know if he's currently open to commissions.
-Sincerely
FiveBrosStopMosYT
I've made several armor sets, and the main constraint is the pixel size. You'll need to pick out the most distinctive feature of the armor and lean into that to make it recognizeable. Adding a knee-high skirt to slightly modified chain armor, a particular style of shoulder pads, and a traditional Chinese helm might do the trick. It really depends on what you're going for, how good is good enough-- and how many animations you want to support.
Helms would be the easiest, because once you've done the front, side, and back (and a few custom additions for the death animation) you're pretty much done and just need to place it correctly.
These are my LPC armor designs. I've also got a range of helmets on my gallery.
Agreed with Eliza's comments. I am not aware of anything specific to this period. I don't know much about armor from this period, but a lot of stuff could likely be made to work with some modifications, and focusing on the most distinctive elements will save you lots of effort and money. For example, castelonia and I are working on some clothing for pirates, and we were able to adapt existing pants, shirts, and jackets to good effect, while focusing on adding some pirate-y details, like a peg leg, hook, and tricorne hat. See example.
Animation is laborious and therefore expensive. As she mentioned, helmets are easier/cheaper than other objects for the LPC set, since only a few frames need to be drawn and the rest can be placed automatically.
Send me a PM if you'd like to discuss commissions, I would be happy to work on this.
BTW Eliza, the armor looks awesome! Can't wait to see the full set!
Wow, thanks for all the information. I run a simulation game (mostly text base with PHP / mysql integration) for that time period (three kingdoms mostly) and I have been working with a 2d engine a lot for the past year so I figured maybe I can make a 2d game version of that simulation. Been a while we're at a stalemate and haven't had a running game for a while so this may breathe some new life into it.
A few weeks ago when I first discovered this wealth of assets that is LPC, I fiddled around with it to explore and was amazed so now I'm motivated to see what I can come up with.
What I think I'll do, using some suggestions here, is build the base game with some default LPC art and come back here to see how we can improve it. Would want to make sure my community is onboard as well, we're very small maybe 25-30 active players and most of us are older so we're set in ours ways lol
A prudent and reasonable plan! Let us know how we can help as your project develops :)
Is this an appropriate place to post updates, screenshots and ask for advice?
Yes, of course. :) Have fun!
@ Elizawhy: Wow! That armor looks great, if I'd known you did clothing I'd have recomended you too! :)
@Phailak: Mind linking to your project? I'd love to check it out! Is it free to play?
-Sincerely
FiveBrosStopMosYT
Sure it's on http://simwarlords.net/warlords/
It's in between versions now though, but the idea is to take that format and make the text battles on a 2d grid
Also if anyone is curious, have two games I made and published on my site, https://isnos.net/