Does anybody know where this tileset is from?
Monday, June 3, 2019 - 05:51
Found this online, hoped to learn more about it. Does anybody have any information on this tileset?
I've added a bit of noise, in case it's not meant to be shared freely...
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That is from the David E Gervais tileset.
He originally designed it for the Angband Roguelike, I believe. Way back before Creative Commons was a thing, so it was originally given a nebulous "license" like 'free, but don't be a jerk'. It was then massively expended for the Angband variant ToME (back when it was "Tales of Middle Earth", not "Tales of Maj'Eyal") and the Angband variant variant TomeTik. See http://pousse.rapiere.free.fr/tome/ for more information.
large 32x32 3/4 overhead orthographic sets (including your tileset above) as well as 54x54 3/4 isometric sets were made for some other successful commercial games like Dungeon Odyssey and Silmar. It's been used in a huge number of projects and other games since.
I think it may have been bart, creator of OpenGameArt, that helped convince David Gervais to release it under a formal Creative Commons license, but documentation is sketchy on this. Regardless, it has been available under CC-BY since at least early 2012. That part is not sketchy at all. It's definitely free under Creative Commons Attribution. :)
https://opengameart.org/content/roguelike-tiles-large-collection
--Medicine StormThank you very much! I thought I saw this somewhere before on the site, but couldn't find it for the life of me. And also, happy to get background info on the set, that's really appreciated!