I'm noting down all of these ideas.

About snow; I'm afraid that would be kinda color limiting; which is something we're trying to avoid since the underwater theme. Yet most themes can include snow, IF someone chooses to do so. I will still note this down so we may use it at some point.

About fantasy setting; people, including me, love fantasy, especially dragons. All collabs we've done so far (guess you guys checked all 5 including this, if not, you can reach them from my profile info) contains fantasy elements because we never said "no fantasy" :) I think future collabs will also involve fantasy but setting it as a theme may be too limiting. We can do however a "medieval" theme and people who like would draw dragons & orcs and stuff like that.

On "sorcery" theme; Setting magic as a theme may be a good idea. I'll think about this, perhaps for a future collab.

@sjhwi1a; we've gone over all of these theme ideas. Unusual light source or different color restrictions are not very newbie friendly. As for scale, what do you have in mind? Some past collabs we did involved people at the height of 10 px but personally I think it's too small for non-geography-oriented collabs.

Apart from this I have a solid idea for the next collab (I can't declare because of palette competition fairness) but I'll present all of these ideas and more to all the mods and we'll decide together.

One thing that is a must is, the next collab has to look and feel differently from the current one. So, for example, war or cyberpunk themes won't be available for next collab (since they're kinda similar to postapocalypse).

Last couple of updates:

@eishiya; The collabs have 90+ tiles and very spesific subjects as in weeklies might lead to repetitive designs or even worse; people getting bored. We can risk a weekly, but we can't risk a whole collab.

Also, we do not want to compete with Pixelation collabs. They have a place, ours does too. Ours is set to be newbie friendly, and that's where the ISO requirement comes in (it provides basic compatibility between veterans and newbies).

However if we can find a topic that people would be interested, I'm all for managing a side collab. RPG map is an awesome idea; yet I'm not sure about extra restrictions - it must not be too hard for newbies.

For a Metroidvania map collab, can you provide a layout? (By the way, before I joined PJ, they used to make room-y ISO collabs, but they somehow discontinued it).

Irenaart, I'm also against too restricted color palettes but it's a staff decision, because smaller palettes are controlled easier by newbies and are more challenging for pros.

Video games fall into the same category with fantasy. Every collab has 10s of video game references.

I completely agree when you say the quality of the final image matters. I have (and will) rejected tiles that are drawn without any effort. But again many newbies honed their skills here in these collabs, so we choose to open all doors to them. The interaction between the new and the old here is amazing (which doesn't happen in closed collabs such as pixelation's).

But if there's enough interest, a side collab that we can do may be open to experienced pixellers only, if that's the idea.

(Really can't we do the RPG map isometric, with a much much smaller scale than this one? Would that be cool?)

OK let's try this as a side collab. Would any one of you be willing to help me with managing (including setting the palette, scale, light source etc.)?

Tile is done!
Edit:
also touched up on the old one to make it fit better

Done I think? Would you have me remove the flame on the outside edges? Otherwise, Merry Xmas everyone!

Conspiracy Related

Maybe the name could be: ConspISOracy
If you want to be even more related to the theme, the pallete size would be 13 and it would use triangular tiling (instead of hex or square ones) and picture having a triangle shape, with n=10 (see picture, you can have 90+ tiles (the result is 100 tiles).

I was thinking about a 2D world (like Terraria) divided in layers like space-sky-earth surface/sea-underground-core, so you can pick a setting for the general theme of the collab. Also, it would be GREAT to make the scale a little bit bigger. Mercenary Kings is a great example of what I have in mind



Edit: I have no idea if this has been done before. Maybe? Since it isn't the most creative idea...

@Gecimen: Sent you a PM with my email address. Contact me!

great, collab ended? I think the final image looks pretty cool (except some tiles like mine). Sorry, I could done it better, but was very busy for this

What pyro said, the most important thing is you have improved :)