I would love to see more decor / detail elements. We also lack monsters. Almost nobody extended the monster base (on Source of Tales we simply created lots of skeleton variations thanks to the skeleton spritesheet. But only skeletons turns a bit boring somewhen =)). (So I want to take this situation to thank wushin a lot, who did the skeleton and the training dummy. Also a big thx to Redshrike for his awesome Beetle).

Regards,

Ablu

I'm betting a lot of the people who would normally respond to this sort of thing just aren't aware of this thread.

Hmm, maybe vehicles and power-ups?

Edit: in general more animated stuff I guess, to make the world more lively?

Huge insect enemies would be cool too.

I've been meaning to respond to this but have been having trouble thinking of something that I _need_. My own personal project is still very much in the engine stage and I haven't quite got to the point of building content which will show up glaring gaps. Plus I'm able to do some art myself, allowing me to plug some of those gaps.

That said, my vague wish list for new/expanded LPC content is as follows:

• More styles of buildings.
• More detail pieces (interior, exterior and general environment).
• More outfit options.
• More weapon types and animations.
• Common D&D races with non-human proportions (dwarves, halflings, gnomes, etc.).

For non-human proportion races I do have a plan to code something up to intelligently scale humans into something that looks about right. How well that turns out in the end remains to be seen. (Assuming I decide I want them in the end.)

As far as monsters are concerned, one can look at http://bestiary.ca/beasts.htm as well as http://ancientbeast.com/bestiary/ . All and any monsters in the LPC style welcome :)

ALso, freedink art assests are ZLIB licensed ecept for some sounds under other free licenses so you could look there for inspiration for monsters (the slasher and bonca)

The big things that i see missing are monsters with full animation, world view style tiles, weapons, and races other then humans. Some animated tiles would be nice as well like fountins.

As I said, more animated level-props would be great... stuff like moving flags, flickering lights, running water, wind going across a grass tile, dust devils etc.

It's the small things that make a game alive!

For the characters a "bumping into" animation and other such small nice effects would be good too.

Well, anyone is grateful for new LPC artwork you fund... no questions asked really ;)

Are there faceset(48x48 pixels) for LPC? Maybe template based with different eyes, hairs, mouths, noses and chins.

Hmm, I thought I had seen here potraits. I tried to search them with word face and I got just one template page. These look fine.

Personally, I'm a fan of these: http://opengameart.org/content/template-portait-half-body The only problem is that if you're not an artist there aren't enough parts.

http://opengameart.org/content/template-portait-half-body

Correct link, somehow your's doesn't work.

But I agree, some cloth and hair for these would be great.

Edit: and the female torso needs some gravity applied to :D

Ah, I know what happened.  I use the old method of double space after a sentance.  Thanks, I edited the link and it works now.

I'd personally be looking for a wolf that could play the part of either companion or enemy.  Something that would primarily attack by biting, though a howling "cast" animation would also be awesome.  Probably no ranged or shooting animation needed - just walk/howl/bite.  Lower than it is tall - maybe fitting into a cell 48 wide by 32 tall.  

As far as someone's Dragon Warrior comment goes, let's not forget that WAS a bestiary full of palette swaps, a technique I tried to make good use of in Polymorphable.  By my count, DW had maybe 16 enemies.  Our BIGGER problem is that the existing set has no attack animations - my bats, bees, ghosts, etc have, to date, just walked at people.  Meanly.

There also ARE spears that Wulax made.

And finally, I'd be happy to incorporate any new weapons and armor into the Universal Sprite Sheet.  https://github.com/makrohn/Universal-LPC-spritesheet

Kind of late to the party, but my LPC fantasy would be to get a right-handed attack template.  Right now, all the attack bases switch between left and right handed depending on the side they are facing.  It's a small thing, but it does appear strange at times.

Other than that, I think the most important missing elements are  enemy base templates (with animations), overland map tiles, and portraits.

Character animations that I miss:

- Jumping. It's the one blocker that prevents a true platformer using LPC art.
Also, for an JRPG style game, I find it unplausible that a narrow abyss should
be non-clearable. Plus it adds tactical possibilities if the weight of your
inventory limits the distance you can jump.

- Running (in contrast to walking). Apart from combat games, it could be used in
sport sims.

- Swimming.

- Carrying (overhead, for example). Useful for archaic economy sims (like
Widelands). This one I would directly incorporate into my game Gossip;
the others occured to me while pondering games I'll probably never make.

Of course, jumping and carrying are also good for other games.  ARPGs like Zelda use a lot of both, and jumping is a main part of StarTropics puzzles and action.

Adding animations at this point would be a huge undertaking, but there was a list I made during LPC, here it is:

1. Slash (present)
2. Casting (present)
3. Bow aim/fire (present)
4. Throw (dart, stone, granade)
5. Two handed swing
6. Thrust (present)
7. Pick up
8. Carry torch/flag (last frame of slash is suitable)
9. Swim
10. Stair ascend/decend

These are new but some can be don with existing frames:

11. Cannot comply
12. Victory
13. Jump
14. Comfirm
15. Sit (single frame might be enough)

I agree that adding even a single new animation for all existing layers of the universal sprite sheet is a lot of work. But it takes a lot less in order to be useful. For example carrying. Assuming that the base would share hips and below with the walkcycle, shorts and such could easily be adapted. (Not copied because in the walkcycle some pants pixels are eclipsed by hands.) So could hairstyles. Carriers are workers, they don't need fancy armor. Male ones can be topless, even. So it would only take an arty person to do the base animation and techical/semi-arty people could build upon that to achieve basic usefulness. More stuff can be added later, as needed.

Regarding the female in http://opengameart.org/content/template-portait-half-body , it's not so much that she needs gravity applied to her, but rather she's looks to be wearing something constrictive around the bust, like a corset or a horizontal strap of cloth.

Consideration for shape might be needed if one is doing less restrictive or supportive clothes.

(CC0 for the new pieces, in case anyone wants to use them.)

Actually that is totally true and I thought so before. But great illustration of it. How about expanding it to more cloth and uploading it properly to OGA? You seem to be quite skilled, e.g. those examples fit perfectly to the art-style.

I might work on doing more clothes for that portrait system as time and inspiration permits. However, that will be curtailed somewhat by the fact I'm working on my own portrait template system.

@Julius-

http://opengameart.org/content/lpc-animated-water-and-fire

I did the best I could.. It's amazing that I haven't seen anyone go through and animate the fire and water on the LPC assets yet... it's pretty essential.  I agree we need animated grass, possibly flowers, dust devils, etc. to make the games feel more alive.  Right now they are pretty static.

Neat, thanks for those animations!