Ugh. @Jesse: ignore all that. Your comparison of David Gervais sprites to Wesnoth sprites was reasonable. The failure was on my part. Welcome to OGA and let me know if you need to locate anything else. I promise I'll do better helping you out this time. :D
I don't think the misunderstanding was due to Jesse's categorization of the sprites. I think it had more to do with me assuming he was familiar with the same types of tilesets I am. If you've never played ToME or Silmar or Angband, the closest relative of David Gervais's art style would probably be Battle for Wesnoth.
I'm not sure I can completely agree with that analysis of the two sprite sets.
1. Although the David Gervais tiles are predominantly 3/4 overhead perspective, they also include some isometric perspective stuff. Also, very few of the Wesnoth character sprites are strictly isometric. Other than the land hexes, most of them would also work ok with 3/4 overhead. Although I may not understand the comparison being made; I'm not familiar with "variable perspective".
2. I do agree here that David Gervais sprites tend to have a different proprotional style from the Wesnoth sprites, but what makes one Western and the other Anime? No disagreement, just curious about the features.
3. The attribution of "small size" to Wesnoth sprites and "medium size" to David Gervais sprites seems backward to me. Wesnoth sprites rarely go below 60x52 and commonly sized 72x72, but David Gervais sprites are almost all 32x32, with some of the larger isometric sprites being as large as 54x54. The largest of the "Medium size" is almost as small as the smallest of the "small size"? That aside, the sizes are still close enough to each other that I wouldn't say they are nothing alike.
Not that I have any say in how yd chooses to license his own art, but wouldn't adding CC0 to everything that's released under GPL kinda defeat the purpose of licensing it under GPL?
Well Phoey! My project is incompatible with the GPL. I guess I'll be representing my visuals in the non-visible color spectrum. You guys can all see gamma rays, right?
Oh, I plan to do the -BY thing anyway, even with CC0 stuff. I wasn't able to use it before now because the licensing on the original posting here seemed poorly researched. GPL and CC-BY-SA? It didn't seem to match what 7soul actually wanted, so I was skeptical. Besides, there was indication on 7Soul's DA page hinting at -NC dirivative works mixed in. I loved the icons, but seemed like a risk.
Now, however, it is right from the artist's mouth which license should be used. Furthermore, 7Soul removed any icons from the pack that might be derived from -NC works. WOOHOO!
EDIT: @capbros: Thanks for that shameless plug. Those are some pretty great art packs. And very affordable, too.
Ugh. @Jesse: ignore all that. Your comparison of David Gervais sprites to Wesnoth sprites was reasonable. The failure was on my part. Welcome to OGA and let me know if you need to locate anything else. I promise I'll do better helping you out this time. :D
I don't think the misunderstanding was due to Jesse's categorization of the sprites. I think it had more to do with me assuming he was familiar with the same types of tilesets I am. If you've never played ToME or Silmar or Angband, the closest relative of David Gervais's art style would probably be Battle for Wesnoth.
I'm not sure I can completely agree with that analysis of the two sprite sets.
1. Although the David Gervais tiles are predominantly 3/4 overhead perspective, they also include some isometric perspective stuff. Also, very few of the Wesnoth character sprites are strictly isometric. Other than the land hexes, most of them would also work ok with 3/4 overhead. Although I may not understand the comparison being made; I'm not familiar with "variable perspective".
2. I do agree here that David Gervais sprites tend to have a different proprotional style from the Wesnoth sprites, but what makes one Western and the other Anime? No disagreement, just curious about the features.
3. The attribution of "small size" to Wesnoth sprites and "medium size" to David Gervais sprites seems backward to me. Wesnoth sprites rarely go below 60x52 and commonly sized 72x72, but David Gervais sprites are almost all 32x32, with some of the larger isometric sprites being as large as 54x54. The largest of the "Medium size" is almost as small as the smallest of the "small size"? That aside, the sizes are still close enough to each other that I wouldn't say they are nothing alike.
OMG, I am so sorry. I didn't think the DungeonCrawl set, RLTiles, or the David Gervais set (The stuff from http://pousse.rapiere.free.fr/tome/, also found here: http://opengameart.org/content/roguelike-tiles-large-collection) were Battle of Wesnoth style. I feel stupid for suggesting the LPC set without also considering the tileset I am predominantly using! :/
Glad you were eventually able to get the help (albeit indirect) you were looking for. :)
This game is pretty fun.
Was totally confused by the boon and status icons until I found the manual in a separate download. Very helpful. :)
Not that I have any say in how yd chooses to license his own art, but wouldn't adding CC0 to everything that's released under GPL kinda defeat the purpose of licensing it under GPL?
This kinda fits that description: http://opengameart.org/content/wesnoth-frankenpack
Other than that, the largest collection of characters that are (not quite) wesnoth-esque would probably be the Liberated Pixel Cup set: http://opengameart.org/content/liberated-pixel-cup-0
Is there a large demand for a license like this? What feature does this license provide that other established licenses fail to satisfy?
Well Phoey! My project is incompatible with the GPL. I guess I'll be representing my visuals in the non-visible color spectrum. You guys can all see gamma rays, right?
I am absolutely using this package in my game!
Oh, I plan to do the -BY thing anyway, even with CC0 stuff. I wasn't able to use it before now because the licensing on the original posting here seemed poorly researched. GPL and CC-BY-SA? It didn't seem to match what 7soul actually wanted, so I was skeptical. Besides, there was indication on 7Soul's DA page hinting at -NC dirivative works mixed in. I loved the icons, but seemed like a risk.
Now, however, it is right from the artist's mouth which license should be used. Furthermore, 7Soul removed any icons from the pack that might be derived from -NC works. WOOHOO!
EDIT: @capbros: Thanks for that shameless plug. Those are some pretty great art packs. And very affordable, too.
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