As somebody that does use the tags these ideas sound good to me. The order of priority in the bullet point list sounds good, but I'd move the last two items up the list by a couple, or few, places.
Case ignoring seems like a good idea, as would be testing for, or just plain stripping, spaces, hypens, and underscores, and then testing if a tag is unique. 8bit, 8Bit, 8BIT, 8-bit, 8-Bit, 8-BIT, 8 bit, 8 Bit, 8 BIT, 8_bit, 8_Bit, and 8_BIT should probabl all be the same tag. (Not that all of the above tags exist, but they could, and probably shouldn't.)
I just want to say that I love your art. I'm actually using your roguelike set in a python / pygame roguelike that would be open source, and may or may not ever make it off my harddisk. I've been plucking away at it forever. I actually have a bunch of your stuff in this CC0 and OGA-BY art collection to help with that task:
Somebody is using this for: '8 bit live wallpaper' in the Google Play store. I noticed the art as soon as a saw it. Seems neat.
As somebody that does use the tags these ideas sound good to me. The order of priority in the bullet point list sounds good, but I'd move the last two items up the list by a couple, or few, places.
Case ignoring seems like a good idea, as would be testing for, or just plain stripping, spaces, hypens, and underscores, and then testing if a tag is unique. 8bit, 8Bit, 8BIT, 8-bit, 8-Bit, 8-BIT, 8 bit, 8 Bit, 8 BIT, 8_bit, 8_Bit, and 8_BIT should probabl all be the same tag. (Not that all of the above tags exist, but they could, and probably shouldn't.)
I just want to say, more nice work, awesome!
I just want to say that I love your art. I'm actually using your roguelike set in a python / pygame roguelike that would be open source, and may or may not ever make it off my harddisk. I've been plucking away at it forever. I actually have a bunch of your stuff in this CC0 and OGA-BY art collection to help with that task:
http://opengameart.org/content/8x8cc0oga-byroguelike
I don't have any specific ask, well, other than keep on being awsome!
Here's a screen shot:
Nice! (Along with the torch guy.)
This set literally inspired me to go back and resume work on my roguelike. Awesome.