What's the best way to contribute small changes to existing art?
Although OGA is great in providing game-ready art, sometimes there's a bit of cleanup required. I often find myself making these changes, which can be helpful for others:
I knew the art existed, but had lost the link, and wanted to find it again. It didn't show up till I only used "book" as search term and browsed the results.
It would be great to have a 'wish list' for assets, where a user can list what kind of asset they're looking for (ex: sprites), specify any technical or artistic requirements (ex: isometric, dawnbringer palette, CC-BY-SA license), upload images of examples (or link to) pre-existing things that fit the style / desired design asthetic, and also add tags for the 'wish'. A comment section should be provided for both the wisher to use and also for other people to leave feedback on the wish idea.
I think it'd be nice if you could have a single submission in multiple galleries. That way a submission that has multiple artists or one that was submitted by someone other than the artist will all show up under the artist's name.
One gripe I have with OGA is that it's very hard, especially for new users, to find the right artwork for their needs.
One solution is to use the tags, but unfortunately the tags are solely chosen by the uploader, who may or may not know the best tags to use. It seems that tags should be driven by the community at large. One possibility is to allow users to choose tags as well.
Forgive me if this is a regular problem, as I just joined the site. But I uploaded some art and it instantly said i had 600+ downloads. I think this may be because the site checks how many downloads there are for a file by the files name (i.e. multiple files might be called hero.png etc.) and not the actual download for each individual file. I thought I would just make you guys aware
I've decided to go through a bunch of OGA's archives and download everything that looks usable, inspiring, useful as reference or otherwise worth keeping on-hand.
However, while downloading the images/packages is simple enough, the need to keep them tied to appropriate metadata (license(s), source, artist's comments, tags, ...?) does not seem to be so simple. The workload suddenly multiplies by a few dozen times.
