I appreciated blue_prawn's original post and I thought it was respectful and quite well pitched.
I also understand fully Ragnar's concerns. We wouldn't want this forum to descend into angry political tribalism, which can happen very easily in these times.
After six years of being held captive in MedicineStorm's basement, bart reveals that he was looking for someone to take over running the site anyway, and he'd like to extend her an offer. Then he gets up, snaps his zip ties like they were made of wet spaghetti, and Dr Manhattans into the ether. A slight whiff of lavender-scented particle accelerator is left behind in the cellar dungeon.
Oops, I didn't want to know bart's physical location. I had a niggling urge to know why the forum founder is no longer active on it. My question has been answered!
It looks as though OGA already does everything he recommends. An "I agree to auto-upgrade to newer versions of the license" text is right there in the submissions form. I don't know how long it's been there, but if it was there on day 1, then I guess everything on the site could be bumped from CC-BY 3.0 to CC-BY 4.0 at the click of a mouse.
Although, I wonder if sometime there might arise a reason to downgrade a license version or even substitute a whole license. E.g. a new version of a CC licence is released but it has an unfortunate "bug"; or a maliciously crafted licence is released and nobody spots it until it achieves high takeup. "Newer is not always better"... However I guess that would be a much more difficult situation than just bumping a license to a newer version of the same license.
Sometimes on OGA people have made posts where they simply took somebody else's existing art and re-formatted it for use with particular engine tools. It's a shame there's not more of that, IMO; that kind of thing will be useful to game creators, since often art creators only have experience with a tiny number of the tools that are out there, and won't necessarily post their art in the format that is easiest for a would-be game creator to use.
I appreciated blue_prawn's original post and I thought it was respectful and quite well pitched.
I also understand fully Ragnar's concerns. We wouldn't want this forum to descend into angry political tribalism, which can happen very easily in these times.
After six years of being held captive in MedicineStorm's basement, bart reveals that he was looking for someone to take over running the site anyway, and he'd like to extend her an offer. Then he gets up, snaps his zip ties like they were made of wet spaghetti, and Dr Manhattans into the ether. A slight whiff of lavender-scented particle accelerator is left behind in the cellar dungeon.
If that were the case, then MedicineStorm has already given Sharm, Redshrike, and Botanic away as being in on it.
Oops, I didn't want to know bart's physical location. I had a niggling urge to know why the forum founder is no longer active on it. My question has been answered!
Reminds me of Lemmings. Looks quite good.
Where do the tiles come from that are used to build the 4th image (the green and purple one)?
It looks as though OGA already does everything he recommends. An "I agree to auto-upgrade to newer versions of the license" text is right there in the submissions form. I don't know how long it's been there, but if it was there on day 1, then I guess everything on the site could be bumped from CC-BY 3.0 to CC-BY 4.0 at the click of a mouse.
Although, I wonder if sometime there might arise a reason to downgrade a license version or even substitute a whole license. E.g. a new version of a CC licence is released but it has an unfortunate "bug"; or a maliciously crafted licence is released and nobody spots it until it achieves high takeup. "Newer is not always better"... However I guess that would be a much more difficult situation than just bumping a license to a newer version of the same license.
@ragnar-random Depends on their level of skill.
You can't have too much accessibility for someone who is just starting out.
@MedicineStorm What about if the rearranged version is posted as a comment on the original submission?
I'm assuming that the rearranged version is done by someone other than the original submitter.
Sometimes on OGA people have made posts where they simply took somebody else's existing art and re-formatted it for use with particular engine tools. It's a shame there's not more of that, IMO; that kind of thing will be useful to game creators, since often art creators only have experience with a tiny number of the tools that are out there, and won't necessarily post their art in the format that is easiest for a would-be game creator to use.
@Redshrike It happened 7 years ago now, but @Manveru accepted your request to make "Dorver" available under CC-BY for this collection...
https://opengameart.org/content/dorver-monster
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