beautiful, its amazing.Few points :-

1. The only downer I see from this is there are no females. Even in sprites, just having males are boring.

2. Also there is just a single base, again atleast 3 odd body types like tall, fat, short skinny etc. would go a long way.

Its amazing though that you could come up with an online sprite builder (as a webapp. )

Hi Bart,

 Good initiative. While I am not in a position to help OGA financially as of right now, here are few things that come to my mind. See if it helps you.This is again taken from http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2010/07/22/gaming-v/

"Also feel free to to make also donations on the site as (from the developer’s own statements he would be using it exclusively to commission art exclusively. He has also made clear the issues I have seen on many such sites (No automation of donation in real-time and lack of accountability on where the money is spent.) A related issue is how to know how much money/price is good for a work of art. He should possibly describe a work of art and ask people to submit a sort of open tender for the same. There should be a way where people can see which artists are going or putting up these works. Maybe we come to know of artists which we didn’t know before. Things such as previous experience of donating or works being commissioned by bart, previous quality of work etc., adhering to timelines and all should all be in the open and make it a more transparent site. This lack of transparency is also what bogs major projects. For e.g. look at wikipedia’s yearly budgets. They tell as much as they hide. There is a need of real-time accounting systems but that’s a different tale altogether." - shirish

Again just my 2 paise.

Hi all,

 I wish pfunked had linked the Featued link. I also wish that the featured link make it somewhat easier to understand why a particular peice of art was featured and why another one is not featured. Some idea both for users and developers. An e.g. of a random featured art http://opengameart.org/content/whispers-of-avalon-grassland-tileset Now as a user I just don't have any idea why it was featured. It would be good if this could made a bit more transparent (or atleast the ratings and  possibly other points and objectives which go on into making stuff Featured.) 

Anyways, I had chatted with Bart, pfunked and others day before yesterday. I sincerly believe Bart should have a timeline by which suggestions are accepted or not (maybe a month) or something, whatever he feels good about. Bart should make a page/node where everything on OGA that he is going to do or wants to do for OGA 2.0 is spelled out. Things he is going to work on right now, things he would do later, things which are miscellenous (good to do but only if somebody else either funds or does the coding for it.) This he should do as early as possible as its always a good idea to write down things. As Said before there is no good way of searching the forum, so there is a high possibility that some good suggestions may get bypassed if one thinks of doing it later.

I also posted couple of blog posts in this week, the last one which got published yesterday http://wp.me/pfuZu-fM . I'm going to steal an idea which I posted there as well.

1. "One of the other off-shoots of ideas I see is a tool which can be used either from GNU/Linux, Mac or MS Windows where I, a user can filter stuff (images,sounds etc.) depending on my need and the software would go to the site and take stuff from there. I have seen something similar for wallpapers in Ubuntu a few versions back. Of course the developer (bart in this case) would have to make his database,labels with some standard and give some technical documentation perhaps but this could be done. Also there could be some sort of an uploader which would upload art from a user’s desktop to the site as well. A unified program which does both would be perfect. Of course would post the same in the forum as well for bart to think about." -shirish

2. Also the idea of having a resource where people can upload large files with revisions and all is good. I don't know or have any idea if OGA 1.0 provides for this or not.

Also the FAQ itself shouldn't it be in different nodes, the FAQ should be one document where the questions are shown and the answers are hidden (but are there on the page/node) . This way a user can see the relevant answers he wants to view. The FAQ itself is far from complete as it doesn't tell if there are limits to how much a user can upload and how long his art would be on the site. I'm sure there are many more questions which are not covered in the FAQ. Also there are no policies listed anywhere. Would x-rated content (read adult art) be allowed on the site or not. If yes,then there needs to be some sort of age verification process. I know it might be a bit outlandish notion but one never knows.

3. I have subscribed to couple of forum threads. All of them just show the first line or couple of lines of the post, it would be good perhaps to read the whole post from e-mail itself. There should also be a possibility to post to the thread from e-mail itself. This can be good only when the previous suggestion/feature is implemented.

I may be missing out on couple of more points which I might have though but there's the gist of it. Just my 2 paise.  

Could you also have a search by keywords on the forum. Sometimes you see some posts and want to investigate later but don't remember the whole thing. Right now this cannot be done I think or I haven't found a way to search through the forums. 

you could also think of having a good board like punbb (lightweight forum software) or something else altogether combined with the site. That would make the forum lot more functional than it is atm.

Again my 2 paise.