Watch out, this thread is old! Check out the new jungle thread

The Open Pixel Platformer is a Creative Commons licensed game project.
We are looking for all kinds of pixel artists to contribute tiles and sprites to this set and turn this in a community build game in the future!

Read more about the OPP

You are very welcome to create your own sets, such as a cave, desert, sci-fi, town, miniature world, or whatever you fancy. If the art work matches the style guide and is licensed CC-BY it will be included in the project

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The jungle set

Yay, I am opening the very first OPP set and inviting everyone to help out! If you want to make new tiles/sprites, do so!
If you see something you can improve/edit, do so!
If you want to add animations to existing characters, do so!
As long as you license your work CC-BY it can be used. Sketches, line art and other unfinished art as well as it could be finished by others.

If you want to contribute, pick an item on the todo list, the idea list or come up with your own tile, sprite, object or even background image idea. Make sure that it would fit with the already finished tiles that are at the bottom of this post, and perhaps you check out the last few posts of this topic to see what other people are working on at the moment!
When you are finished or when stop working on it, upload it to the OPP wiki!

Jungle set guidelines:
Animals as enemies! And imagine that this takes place somewhere south America...
Of course all additions should match the OPP style guide

Inspiration: 1, 2,

Todo list:

• Finish tree from Jim
• Finish slopes
• Upload stuff to wiki (skeddles stone monster, some tiles into tileset)
• Create waterfall
• Spike pits (no platformer is complete without them), perhaps some thorns or spears
• Monsters (very important). Death, attack, idle, walking
  

Idea list (thank you Ellian!)
- Skulls
- Flowers, carnivorous flower (could be a monster?), giant plants (thinking Rafflesia style, not a tiny little flower but more like giant kinds; may be platforms?)
- Bees (background animated tiny ones) / giant bees (monsters)
- Exotic birds (parrots, toucan...)
- Adventurer camp (campfire, tents, clothes hanging, jungle helmet, crates, metal cooking ustensils...)
- Native camp (spears, decorative skulls, fences, straw huts...)
- Magic altars (giant engraved rock slabs, skulls (I love skulls okay?), voodoo-type magical artifacts...)
- Water (ponds, poisonous water, swamp, mud, piranhas (monsters, again!)...)
- Ladders, objects to climb or hang on to
- Crocodiles and gators!
- Snakes (background animated tiny ones) / giant snakes (monsters)
- Frogs (background animated tiny ones) / giant poisonous frogs (monster)
- Monkeys! (think chimpanzee, mandrills, gorillas...)
- Spiders (background animated tiny ones) / giant spiders (monster)
- Sloths, because sloths are like the coolest animals in the entire world.

So far there is:

Check out the OPP wiki for the latest sprites and tiles!

Jungle tiles

Toucan

Frog

Leopard

Some mockups:

Monsters:







This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Artists: (list might be incomplete, check the wiki to be sure)
Hapiel
Skeddles
Numberplay
Jim16
Ellian
RileyFiery
Noburo

Feel free to edit/improve, and add tiles, characters and animations to make this project a success!

All art posted by the owner/creator in this thread will be licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Edited by Hapiel - 24 January 2015 at 9:26am

Hey Skeddles,
Thanks for your edit!
I like the changes that you made, how have i been able to pick such silly colors for the rocks?
Watch out with the colors though, somehow some colors changed slightly.

Now comes the boring part:
Would you want to give this edit away to the project? If so, please add a  CC-BY license. I know it feels silly to add a link to the license in every post someone makes, but I have come to the conclusion that this is the only safe way that we are sure all the work that is being done now can actually be used!

The final package will contain a txt file with the jungle set stating that its authors: Hapiel & Skeddles & .. need to be attributed.

So yeah, edit that post, or I will have to remake your edit myself ;).

Great improvement! I did edit it already before I noticed you updated it. I will put your new one in this tile file later.



Also here is a mockup, created with Tiled

I was also working on a tree myself.



@Jim I love what you did on my vines

Edited by Numberplay - 23 May 2013 at 5:48pm

Hi Numberplay
Great work!
I have a few suggestions: Get rid of the dithering (and the highlights on the horizontal branches), it kind of alters the style. Also the tree should perhaps not have perfectly straight outline but get some texture, like the tree from Jim.

I really like what you've done on the base of the tree!

Worked on the tree in my previous WIP, still a lot to be done, but it's gradually getting there.
-Removed image for revision.

Edited by Jim16 - 25 May 2013 at 1:28pm

Photoshop is showing 46. I'll remove the last image I posted so that no body carries over any colours. I'll post the other one later. Thanks NP.



Edited by Jim16 - 25 May 2013 at 2:47pm

Why not make the bridge tile fit over the grass corner?

Oh I wasn't thinking about reducing the number of tiles. I just found it odd that you make a tile to hide it behind the grass corner. Why not make a tile that fit over it.

Enlarge the skull indeed, but its great to have spears :D
I don't think there is an easy way to handle animations in tiles for now, but I do like the ribbon... Keep it, without animation!

The colours on that are not off according to photoshop. It looks good, as does all of your tiles so far. I would say that you're a bit off in regards to the style, but I guess that will come after working with it for a while.

I'll try and make an edit that fits in style more, that and I'm a sucker for the whole skull, barbarian/American Indian type themes.

Edit:
NP, I've had a closer look, you're trying way to hard to add detail where you probably don't need to(and giving yourself more work ), and the out-lines of that sprite are not consistent with the style, neither is the human skull. Have a look at the other style thread as a reminder every now and then.

Here's the edit of your sprite, still unfinished and maybe more exaggerated than you initially wanted.
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Edit2:
I might change the dark area of the tree, make it lighter, it all depends on if it still ends up having volume or not.



Edited by Jim16 - 26 May 2013 at 3:36pm

Yep, we need an external opinion on how it should look.
Here is my version:



Jim, your doggy made me lol!
I made an edit on the skull, perhaps white should be used for it? I love the flag you made btw.



Edited by Hapiel - 26 May 2013 at 5:30pm

I know, I was just messing about.

BTW guys, those buildings are really small! The door alone is half the size of any character? Also, maybe you're trying to add detail to to many individual tiles. Spread it out a bit. I kinda like this as a reference, Link

That was my initial thought, however the high value of white worried me a bit. It takes up a lot of visual priority, and looks like its a foreground object. I don't know, you probably could get away with it being white

Edit:
Something more on the lines of this?


Edited by Jim16 - 27 May 2013 at 2:47am

@Jim up until now you never posted your tree without all those other tiles/characters on it. Could we have a version we can try to edit.

Awesome stuff Ellian!
I really dig the spotted leopard, though it might be too hard to animate.. I hope you give a go at some of the animations!

Jim, I like how you put the tree on the 'greenish' background. Perhaps we could make a leaf pattern to put behind the tree! A darker low contrast leaf pattern for background, and a slightly brighter variation for the foreground

Numberplays, keep the submissions coming! Things like the spear inspire great edits :). I think your tree needs to be updated, but perhaps we wait a bit more until Jim's tree style is clear so it can match. I do like the plants you put on it a lot!

To structurize this collaboration more, I am going to add a slightly more detailed to-do list. If you see something that you'd like to do, you can 'claim it'. Of course you can still use other peoples help, but I will assume you try and make sure it gets finished :)

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On the list:

Tree (trunk, branches, leaves)

Grassland:
Bottom tiles
Slopes

Temple: Hapiel
Blocks, doors, stairs, symbols

Spike pits (no platformer is complete without them)
Perhaps some thorns or spears

Monsters (very important). Death, attack, idle, walking animations
#1: Leopard. Ellian
#2: ?

Background objects:
Multi tile plants/flowers

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Feel free to add and suggest more than is on here.
Also, I 'claimed' the temple tiles, but feel very free to contribute to it! I will just fill up the gaps and make sure it gets finished in the end :)

Jim, indeed I missed your dog - poor cute thing, I'm sorry.
And that tree shape is just awesome, really platformer-like. You totally expect your character to walk on that branch, really gives a good retro platform feel, I love it!

Tossing in a few ideas for fore/background objects and monsters:
- Skulls
- Flowers, carnivorous flower (could be a monster?), giant plants (thinking Rafflesia style, not a tiny little flower but more like giant kinds; may be platforms?)
- Bees (background animated tiny ones) / giant bees (monsters)
- Exotic birds (parrots, toucan...)
- Adventurer camp (campfire, tents, clothes hanging, jungle helmet, crates, metal cooking ustensils...)
- Native camp (spears, decorative skulls, fences, straw huts...)
- Magic altars (giant engraved rock slabs, skulls (I love skulls okay?), voodoo-type magical artifacts...)
- Water (ponds, poisonous water, swamp, mud, piranhas (monsters, again!)...)
- Crocodiles and gators!
- Snakes (background animated tiny ones) / giant snakes (monsters)
- Frogs (background animated tiny ones) / giant poisonous frogs (monster)
- Monkeys! (think chimpanzee, mandrills, gorillas...)
- Spiders (background animated tiny ones) / giant spiders (monster)
- Sloths, because sloths are like the coolest animals in the entire world.

And so on... I'll keep this list updated if any nice idea comes to mind. :)


Edited by Ellian - 28 May 2013 at 2:18am

I'm trying to see how to make it look natural on the ground. It looks like it's a bit too high.

(Forgot to redo the outline like on the picture below)


This is what it looks like on ground.




I'm thinking maybe put some flower at the middle once It look ok on the ground.

Feel free to help me.

EDIT :



-Fixed the tall grass. they were too straight at the root.
-Added a flower as example. Doesn't look so bad.

Edited by Numberplay - 27 May 2013 at 11:11am

It feels so empty under the leaves like that. That's why i put grass. But I just found out a better solution.

Edit of the plant (needsmore work). Be careful in using so many colours NP, it can create priority problems in the scene.


Update on the tree:


Daniel, I have plans for the bridge, but it'll have to wait until I can finish the tree. Which will take time.

Nope, outlines are used on moving objects to separate them from the background. If everything has a dark prominent outline you'll end up with everything clashing. Notice the grass tile uses the middle tone as the outline.


Fair enough.

I removed the random pixels, thanks.

Nice frog! I thought about making a frog too when I still believed it was something tiny. Then I realized the extra effort that would go in a frog animation and I let it be for a while ;)

About the flower:
I like both Jims and Numberplays. Also I agree that the background objects should indeed not have more contrast/colors than neccesary. It probably looks extra nice right now, but in the end the whole screen might get distracting. With less contrast this flower could be on the screen multiple times without giving a 'priority issue' :)

Ellian, love the friggin frog! It's a shame about the animation being faster, please fix it for us!

I've been playing around with leaves. Major WIP.

Do we want

A) Cartoon Animals / Bugs (leopard, spider, snake)
B) Generic RPG creatures (golem, skeleton)
C) Made up creatures (unique to this game)

I made a golem, just because I felt like it, crit or edit or insult please, too detailed?



Edited by skeddles - 28 May 2013 at 6:56pm

Skeddles, I do agree with NP, this should be a creative process, and I don't think the process should be limited in any way (within reason).

As for critique, the face is a bit out of perspective with the body. Feet are not in line (one of the character requirements), and some of the lighting is odd, like under the head/on the stomach and even the furthest hand. Otherwise very good. I do like how you've created the rock texture, adds a lot of volume to the character.

What sort of requirements are placed on backgrounds objects such as tents? Will the tiles have to be made such that variations can be made, or can a stand alone piece be used? Also, how do tiles interact with the ground tile? Is it layered and placed on top/behind the grass? Anyways, here's a quick piece I threw together, but I don't know if it's usable in it's current state.