We're back up and running with the OPP. And looking back it's fair to say we made a lot of good content in the time we were active. We have been away for a while. But there is something positive to be taken away from this. Being away allows us to look at things with fresh eyes. And looking at it now, it's evident that not all the content we've made currently works as one coherent package. So, the objective of this thread is to take what we currently have, one tileset at a time and just fix and add polish to it, so that everything works cohesively together. If you want to add to it while you're working, please do! The more content we have, the better. Keep in mind anything and everything that is made, is open to criticism and improvement by other people.

WISHLIST: Just a few things we'd like to include in these tilesets.

   *Plants, flowers, bushes, mushrooms, small & large.
   *Trees (climbable with platforms, check out the old tree too)
   *Slopes, particularly dirt slopes
   *Bottom tiles for dirt, for the creation of hovering platforms
   *Housing: tents, cabins, huts, campfires
   *Climbable things: vines, ladders
   *Obstacles: Large stones/logs, thorns, spears, anthill
   *Native artifacts: Skulls, signs, objects
   *Carcasses
   *Interactive environment: trap doors, breakable crates, removable thick vegetation, bouncing twigs

With that in mind, if you think whats below is unfinished or not up to standard, then do something about it! Lets refine, refine, refine! It's all part of the process.

Main Jungle Tiles








Camping Tiles




Tree Tiles



Water Jungle Tiles



Temple Jungle Tiles
The temple tileset is very empty




Edited by Damian - 03 May 2015 at 2:55am

Amazing work so far Damian!

I just found this in the old thread:



It reminds me: Would be cool to have some more challenging elements such as spikes, moving platforms or other stuff to make more complex levels!

Also, I like the new water! Not so much the underwater rocks yet, perhaps the brightest color should be taken away there..
Perhaps we can create a whole water set that can be used with all the different tile sets, possibly adding more under water elements, fish, coral, etc. Whoever wants to work on that can start that can start a new topic of course ;)

Perhaps this can be copied to the first post. More suggestions are always welcome :)

WISHLIST:
*Plants, flowers, bushes, mushrooms, small & large.
*Trees (climbable with platforms, check out the old tree too)
*Slopes, particularly dirt slopes
*Bottom tiles for dirt, for the creation of hovering platforms
*Housing: tents, cabins, huts, campfires
*Climbable things: vines, ladders
*Obstacles: Large stones/logs, thorns, spears, anthill
*Native artifacts: Skulls, signs, objects
*Carcasses
*Interactive environment: trap doors, breakable crates, removable thick vegetation, bouncing twigs

Hello :) Fresh blood here. Hope to join in for the fun.



made a quick attempt at Jungle veggies... Got three for now since I suddenly run out of ideas( gotta check outdoor later)

After some background tests, I figured that the only cool background tile is this generic bushy tile. So I thought I at least make that one better.
I am not quite sure yet if it is practical to use, but as long as there are no background images it is an easy tile to make a scene look more interesting.

I edited the old ones, but am not sure yet if this is the right approach at all. Perhaps new need to be created from scratch, with another base than these leaves.
Anyway, as they are now, do you guys prefer nr 1 or 2? Corners & inner corners are not yet made.

I agree. #2 is better.

I love that its back, I was so sad when I saw that it had been cancelled...Anyways, I'm working on a few things including some LARGE carnivorous plants

I have one small rock today, just wanted to see if I should continue making more? I have a few more designs and different colors in mind.


 


Edited by darchangel - 08 January 2015 at 12:00pm

Moss might be a bit hard with the limited colour pallet, but worth trying out. I do think that the rocks could be refined a bit more to look more geometrical and some grass blades showing above the rock to break the seam at the bottom. I really like the crystals, looks like you've put a lot of time into them. Might be cool to do something similar for the cave tileset

Darchangele made me wonder why we only have brown rocks. Having grey rocks with brown doesn't really make sense, so I've decided to create the alternatively coloured tileset.




On a side note, I made an edit to the grass set, but if you actually use it you'll notice it doesn't tile very well :/ Will fix that asap.

Hapiel, I did that water as a basic placeholder until someone decides to animate the other one. So you're more than welcome to work on them :)

Edited by Damian - 11 January 2015 at 10:12am

Ooh, I like the middle right one, the shape of the rock is very convincing!

The moss doesn't really work for me though..
Maybe the second and third rock can be edited to match Damian style crystals??

@Damian, I love the recolored tiles! I'll soon work a bit on the water tiles, and then reorganise the whole tileset, as we have almost doubled the amount of tiles with these new recolored versions :D


Edited by Hapiel - 11 January 2015 at 1:03pm

I believe this has all the terrain tiles. I simplified the water edges, the difference was too little. The tiles have been coloured assuming that the water color is always the same, though it requires little effort to change this.

Damian, do you still have the base of the tree somewhere? If not, does someone want to finish that?

I wonder what is the best way to organise these tiles... By shifting things around endlessly it is hard to see where progress is made and it is hard to not loose any old tiles...
Also, even in this setup there are plenty of duplicates. What is the balance between duplicate tiles (and empty space), and ease of use?

The objects (plants, stone, tent, etc) still need to be collected into one image.
 

Cool damian! I like this, it looks great! I wonder, is there a way we can deal with the recoloring of the lower half of sprites that are half in water?

More todos:
We need edge corners for the normal platforms, with dirt and only dark green grass. Now we have only normal grass, and it feels limiting when I make mockups..

Yep, exactly that! Now also some dirt corners, and this is completely done :D

Hi, welcome Kazen!
Awesome, that connects really good!

I think we also could use some 2 tile wide slopes, example here in the middle (I can't remember who created this image, it comes from the wiki)


I reorganised the tiles so there are no duplicates, and made a quick mockup:



Something else I realized:
We don't have any solid wall tiles. Like, with the current dirt sides it seems expectable that you can just run through them, and they go behind other elements.
Of course there are plenty of platformers that don't feature walls, but also plenty that do, and I'd like to support those as well!

My little research and thinking suggested that wall tiles need to be brighter, and probably straighter on the side so it is clear where the edge is.. Possibly even 2 parts, similar to the floor tiles, like in example 7 below.

Anyway, I don't think that the current dirt is suitable for this kind of solid wall. Maybe we can create some brighter, squarish stones that we can use for solid walls. Something like in this or this mockup..

Here is me playing with the current tile possibilities.
1 2 and 3 are possible with the current tiles (5 is the same as 2)
4 is an attempt to make brighter straighter dirt, but I think this is a dead end. 6 is possible, but can be executed better with whole new tiles. 7 is my favorite.



Help me brainstorm, and get out some new tiles

Great stuff Kazen! Suddenly our tileset is twice as big :D



Terrain wise, to finish this set we not only need to come up with an non-passable wall, also we need to work that tree! I was thinking of something like this frogatto tree (and this)..
For that we need to finish the base of the tree, possibly add a variety of branches, come up with some kind of top and some foreground leaves. The lack of leaves is what makes trees in many games super boring..

Background leaves we could use from the 2 layers already in the tileset (that would work similar to this). Any takers? ;)

EDIT:
Here is also the object set. I believe this is everything, correct me if I am wrong please. Some of it could use a bit of an update perhaps. The rocks might be migrated to the cave set too... (with a non-grass base.)


For all: Photobucket, Imageshack and Tinypic make it hard to download the images!!! I recommend imgur.com, that would make my life easier ;)




Edited by Hapiel - 23 January 2015 at 4:34am

darchangel: Well, I quess that's true about the walls. It could become a problem if it's a high platform though, where you don't see the base, but maybe the game shouldn't be designed that way anyway.

I gave it a go on the tree-top. It's a try at least :) I also suggest a removal of one of the sections of the tree (edited the left branch a bit) since the tiles were nearly identical:

Nice-looking branch-addons! I've made some updates too that'll mix it up a little.

* Updated the base of the trunk
* made diagonal branches that should match up with the other branches
* added two additional trunk tiles that should be able to mix and match with the other ones
* some minor edits on the original tree to make the matchup with diagonal tiles easier

I really like that edit of the tree, and I agree that there was something off with it
it. The moss also add a nice touch and fits the jungle-style better. If you don't continue on it then someone else really should!

A quick draft for a beach tileset - edited Hapiel's mockup.



I'd like to hear your opinion on the sky. At least for me it works better than cyan)

Edited by a3um - 30 January 2015 at 12:23am

Mr. Fahrenheit, can't wait to see your progress :)

a3um, I like the sky, pleasing to the eyes. If think both can work depending on mood/time of day and so on. I really like the seashore, that looks awesome!

I've created a few more tiles to create floating platforms and generally more interesting layouts.

Hapiel: Maybe the walls are the ones that we already have, and if we want it to be passable, create basically a flat color that the objects fade into, something like you did with the lower platform on image 1 and basically just make a contour. I Think that would be more readable as passable than making a wall that's brighter.

Anyway, the tiles too:

Oops, sorry, I think I based the bottoms based on the tops and got carried away, I'll make an iteration soon! And yeah, those red squares borrow from the tiles we've got already, trying to keep things simple when mixing and matching!

What i meant about the passable walls is this:

For me, a flat wall is more readable as a passable wall. It might look dull with just a flat color, maybe there could be a little bit of purple inside too, but basically something like that.

If I could offer a suggestion for the ground tiles in the upper-right corner, perhaps the grass could be separated into it's own tileset. I think it would be a lot easier to implement and maintain that way, as it would halve the number of tile variations needed.

ok im done engineering now

I will try to make tiles for a beach set next, but for now here is a draft for a more colorful temple

Random chest and key, with a vine style...

First one has spot on shading, but the dominant color looks a bit bright. These look great regardless.