- An open source game
- We need a characterset
- Unpaid
- rotonen@themanaworld.org
- http://themanaworld.org/ - http://themanaworld.org/
- Only this, since 2004
I got fed up with our community's inability to produce a playerset for the game. Over the years there have been multiple issues, which include:
- Transition from a 16x16 pixel format to a 32x32 pixel format
- Multiple people starting stuff and never finishing
- People trying to work beyond their skills
- People nitpicking about just about everything
- People being unmotivated by the multitude of problems associated
- Current playerset in wrong perspective
Here are a few related links from our forums. Even if you're not interested in helping, it should make a laugh to browse through.
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=323 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=323
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=706 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=706
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=1176 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=1176
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=1390 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=1390
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=2364 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=2364
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=3612 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=3612
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=3618 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=3618
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=4498 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=4498
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=4917 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=4917 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=4917
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=5418 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=5418
Yeah, a long history behind it.
Here's what we have now:
http://gitorious.org/projects/tmwdata/repos/mainline/blobs/master/graphics/sprites/player_female_base.png - http://gitorious.org/projects/tmwdata/repos/mainline/blobs/master/graphics/sprites/player_female_base.png
http://gitorious.org/projects/tmwdata/repos/mainline/blobs/master/graphics/sprites/player_male_base.png - http://gitorious.org/projects/tmwdata/repos/mainline/blobs/master/graphics/sprites/player_male_base.png
Information on how our chosen perspective should work:
http://wiki.themanaworld.org/index.php/Tileset_development%20 - http://wiki.themanaworld.org/index.php/Tileset_development
A sad page:
http://wiki.themanaworld.org/index.php/Playerset_development - http://wiki.themanaworld.org/index.php/Playerset_development
At this point I just want the playerset to be done. It doesn't matter if it breaks some or even all previous equipment work by us. It would be nice towards our artists, if it would not break their work, but having a good and usable playerset is critical for the project. It's stalling all of the nice work on equipment that players would appreciate.
Any form of getting in contact is fine with me. Also, helping our project in any way is more than fine with me.
Finally, yes, we look rather horrible today. Still artifacts from the tile format change way back in 2005 and really random quality of stuff in-game. We are on the rise, though. A few threads, which might just make you not want to rip your eyes out:
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=2034 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=2034
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=2377 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=2377
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=2962 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=2962
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=4593 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=4593
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=5039 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=5039
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=5616 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=5616
And in the end, an example of how we're also a kind of a nursery for aspirant pixel artists. Some of them have been stubborn enough through the years and actually learned something, others have given up.
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=4410 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=4410
http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=4496 - http://forums.themanaworld.org/viewtopic.php?t=4496
EDIT: Made all the links clickable for your convenience.
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