RPG Monster Sprites from Guardian Monsters
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Free & Open Source Monster Sprites!
If you are looking for free and open Game Assets, even for commercial games, you might have found what you where looking for. These Monster Sprites are from the Open Source Monster RPG FriendsWithMonsters.
Please use these Monster Sprites for your games, and consider donating if you do so.
Please note, there is one rule for using the sprites: you must use the monster names provided, to get a coherent naming of them everywhere. People will recognise them and remember the names more easily that way.
Find the whole up to date list here: Guardian Monsters Artwork on GitHub
Scroll down to "Guardians" to find a link to the list.
Get the matching 16x16 Tileset here: FWM-Tileset
Copyright/Attribution Notice:
Georg Eckert 2018 (http://www.limbusdev.de/)
If you have any problems with the license or if you're not sure if you can use the artwork for your project, just contact me ;)
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Please post the actual assets, not just a preview.
The DOWNLOAD-Link is given in the description: FWM/Monster-Assets
You mixed up the preview image and the uploads.
But the preview has other images which are not included.
If you want to take attention to your work you might want to use the forum instead.
Even though it is free, some people will not be happy about a half upload that redirects to another site for the rest.
Nevertheless good work
I know, see it that way, it's been lots of work, I give it away for free, people get 5 monsters without any extra effort on this page, and get the other 32 by going to the external page. I know it's not the best way, but the assets are still free and open source AND not as restrictive as many other assets here (most are for non-commercial only).
I hope everyone can live with this compromise, and I'll be happy to contribute much more free work in the future.
Glad you like it.
Cheers, Gem
PS: I changed it a little bit, the big one is not under previews. Hope that's okay.
"I know, see it that way, it's been lots of work, I give it away for free, people get 5 monsters without any extra effort on this page, and get the other 32 by going to the external page. I know it's not the best way, but the assets are still free and open source AND not as restrictive as many other assets here (most are for non-commercial only)."
I don't know why you think most assets here are non-commercial only. All of OGA's licenses allow for commercial use. CC-By-SA is actually one of the most restrictive licenses on the menu here.
For a number of reasons we can't have the content of submissions be kept in an offsite link. If you'd only like to share the five that are in the files and link to the full set that's fine, but you shouldn't put assets in the preview that aren't included in the submission, and the title should be changed to reflect what is actually available.
"I don't know why you think most assets here are non-commercial only. All of OGA's licenses allow for commercial use."
You must have missed the numerous disscussions about that in the forums. Many artists here state, that the assets are not to be used for commercial use. That's been the main reason why I created this one.
Why is CC-BY-SA restrictive? Okay, it makes sure, that someone who uses it, gives something back by publishing his changes, but it does not prohibit usage in closed source or commercial projects.
If it really is a necessity to remove those not available here from the preview, I'll do it.
Cheers, Gem
Hello,
I'm curious which discussions you're talking about. Again, all of the licenses allow for commercial use, by design. Additional restrictions wouldn't be legally binding, nor within the parameters of the site's rules. I am, however, somewhat out of the loop thanks to a busy graduate school schedule so I'd appreciate a link or two.
CC-By-SA is in some ways slightly less restrictive than GPL licensing, which I think of as our most restrictive license option, but it's definitely more restrictive than CC-By, OGA-By or CC0, which are the other three choices. It also has some ambiguities which tend to lead to long discussions about what is technically required to use the assets, though I think most interpret it as you do. As always, it's your sole prerogative to decide what license you release your work under, and any open license is a good and generous choice. I am not trying to hassle you for picking that license at all, only saying that, on a relative scale, CC-By-SA is not one of the more permissive options on this site.
It's been a while since I've read those threads and I can't find the one I mean, but have a look here http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/lpc-for-commercial-games - this is one of the threads that confused me so much, artists stating that they want to be asked for permission, others that don't, the question whether only derivations of the artwork must be published freely or the whole project, wheather open source but using advertisements is considered commercial and so on.
After asking a few artists and waiting forever, I gave up and decided to do my own artwork and make it available for others to give them artwork they can use without any fears of being sued.
I've included a license file in the packages on my homepage which makes it clear what can be done and what can't, for the parts I distribute here I decided to publish them as GPL3.0 and OGA 3.0. The complete packages on my website are under CC-BY-SA with the note, that they also can be used in commercial games and that we can work something out if the derivates shall not be published freely.
But I guess that's enough of the matter - let's get back to art :)
Unfortunately the link to the bigger set no longer works, but at least some are preserved on the Tuxemon wiki: https://wiki.tuxemon.org/index.php?title=Category:Georg_Eckert
EDIT: Or, better - it's still available here: https://bitbucket.org/gemlion/monsterworld
Hi,
I am aware of the website being down. And yes, the official git repo is still online at https://bitbucket.org/gemlion/monsterworld. Maybe I'll setup an extra repo for the sprites and monsters.
Cheers.
Thanks Gem!
I was wondering - did you have names for all of the monsters? I found some names in the git repo, but not all of them.
Hi. Yes I have names and many of the sprites have been updated in the meantime. This is the open source part of a closed source project I am working on. I will update soon.
Hi Sanglorian,
I added a wiki page at the BitBucket Mirror and added names and so on. Have a look ;)
Monsterworld-Mirror > "Guardian Monsters"
Thanks! That's really great
Artwork has moved to GitHub