Don't know the answer to the 2 OP questions, but I'm pretty confident she was not just an early submission-made-mascot. Sara was official mascot before she was even submitted, actually. She may have existed before any relationship to OGA or she may have been specifically created for OGA, but bart explicitly requested a mascot from Mandi, after which Mandi allowed her to be licensed under CC-BY and GPL (free as in freedom, but not necessarily free as in beer for bart.)
Agreed. Describing the artwork as being like xbox buttons is fine, but it might be better to avoid labeling the artwork itself (like the filename and art title in the license document in the zip file) with brand names. No need to REupload, though. There's an edit tab for that. :)
Yeah, the buttons are great. The xbox logo (although it may also be a button) may not be such a good idea, though. Would you be willing to omit that one logo from the artwork?
The grass I was referring to isn't in the images you've posted on this thread. I was wondering about the grass on the preview images of the Lots of Trees... submission. I'll go wonder about that on the submission page, so disregard my question here. :P
RE. cave walls: Yeah, that drawn-in dark top area was experimental. I think it makes those areas seem like an elevated platform instead of inaccessable/unseen. Fortunately it's easy to just not draw (or change to a black fill) those areas of the tiles.
@Zabin: so are the grass/ground tiles in the Lots of trees and plants submission preview not CC0?
I like both the orthogonal tiles and the isometric DavidGervais stuff, but I probably won't use the Iso stuff in my own game. I like the idea of having wall tops. I think it makes a 3/4 view a lot more comprehensible. I've done some cave-like walls with tops in orthogonal style using DG art. I think it turned out pretty good, but I haven't actually heard anyone else's opinion on it:
(click to enlarge)
As for the palette thing, of all the reduced color palettes I've seen, I think the dawnbringer palette is the best, DB32 especially. Zabin's DB32+Zn8 even more. However, I really prefer having no palette at all. Rather, I prefer the 1.4 million color RGBA32 palette for my pixel art. I know a reduced color set is easier for artists to work with, and somewhat easier for the processer to display, but those benefits do not outweigh the vibrancy I feel is lost. This is, of course, personal preference on my part. I am strictly speaking about what I tend to use in my own games. I have no problem with the DB palette or games that use it. They tend to be the kind of games I like to play, actually.
This is cool. Although I don't really prefer DB palettes myself, I think a cohesive set (rather, a cohesive set of disparate cohesive sets... we've got a lot of great stuff to work with!) of RL art is a good idea.
I like .ogg for its versatility, personally. However, I'm using a framework that allows me to programmatically handle loop points (still, its a pain). I'm guessing you're using RPGMaker or a less code-heavy framework?
I guess they could hoard urls, but it would be a pretty big waste of time. The site would just keep incrementing the suffix for anyone who wanted to use those urls.
Example: I submit something called "awesome soldier", but the hoarder already took /awesome-soldier, /awesome-warrior, /super-soldier, /awesome-soldier-0 through /awesome-soldier-100, etc. The site would just assign my submission /awesome-soldier-101. then, if the hoarder tried to claim that by using "awesome soldier 101", the site would override him and he'd get either /awesome-soldier-102 or /awesome-soldier-101-0, preserving /awesome-soldier-101 for my submission in perpetuity.
Don't know the answer to the 2 OP questions, but I'm pretty confident she was not just an early submission-made-mascot. Sara was official mascot before she was even submitted, actually. She may have existed before any relationship to OGA or she may have been specifically created for OGA, but bart explicitly requested a mascot from Mandi, after which Mandi allowed her to be licensed under CC-BY and GPL (free as in freedom, but not necessarily free as in beer for bart.)
Agreed. Describing the artwork as being like xbox buttons is fine, but it might be better to avoid labeling the artwork itself (like the filename and art title in the license document in the zip file) with brand names. No need to REupload, though. There's an edit tab for that. :)
Nice crips buttons. Well done.
Yeah, the buttons are great. The xbox logo (although it may also be a button) may not be such a good idea, though. Would you be willing to omit that one logo from the artwork?
I trust your licensing validation. :)
The grass I was referring to isn't in the images you've posted on this thread. I was wondering about the grass on the preview images of the Lots of Trees... submission. I'll go wonder about that on the submission page, so disregard my question here. :P
RE. cave walls: Yeah, that drawn-in dark top area was experimental. I think it makes those areas seem like an elevated platform instead of inaccessable/unseen. Fortunately it's easy to just not draw (or change to a black fill) those areas of the tiles.
@Zabin: so are the grass/ground tiles in the Lots of trees and plants submission preview not CC0?
I like both the orthogonal tiles and the isometric DavidGervais stuff, but I probably won't use the Iso stuff in my own game. I like the idea of having wall tops. I think it makes a 3/4 view a lot more comprehensible. I've done some cave-like walls with tops in orthogonal style using DG art. I think it turned out pretty good, but I haven't actually heard anyone else's opinion on it:
(click to enlarge)
As for the palette thing, of all the reduced color palettes I've seen, I think the dawnbringer palette is the best, DB32 especially. Zabin's DB32+Zn8 even more. However, I really prefer having no palette at all. Rather, I prefer the 1.4 million color RGBA32 palette for my pixel art. I know a reduced color set is easier for artists to work with, and somewhat easier for the processer to display, but those benefits do not outweigh the vibrancy I feel is lost. This is, of course, personal preference on my part. I am strictly speaking about what I tend to use in my own games. I have no problem with the DB palette or games that use it. They tend to be the kind of games I like to play, actually.
This is cool. Although I don't really prefer DB palettes myself, I think a cohesive set (rather, a cohesive set of disparate cohesive sets... we've got a lot of great stuff to work with!) of RL art is a good idea.
What about David Gervais art? https://opengameart.org/content/roguelike-tiles-large-collection
I like .ogg for its versatility, personally. However, I'm using a framework that allows me to programmatically handle loop points (still, its a pain). I'm guessing you're using RPGMaker or a less code-heavy framework?
maybe, but I think plague doctors traditionally have straight brimmed leather hats.
I guess they could hoard urls, but it would be a pretty big waste of time. The site would just keep incrementing the suffix for anyone who wanted to use those urls.
Example: I submit something called "awesome soldier", but the hoarder already took /awesome-soldier, /awesome-warrior, /super-soldier, /awesome-soldier-0 through /awesome-soldier-100, etc. The site would just assign my submission /awesome-soldier-101. then, if the hoarder tried to claim that by using "awesome soldier 101", the site would override him and he'd get either /awesome-soldier-102 or /awesome-soldier-101-0, preserving /awesome-soldier-101 for my submission in perpetuity.
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