Ancient Dungeons: Winter is now live!

[saintivan]

Ancient Dungeons is a great achievement. I will definitely be adding Winter.

 

[Celianna]

Hope you guys enjoy the winter tiles! Next up should be a desert expansion pack

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

Woah, sweet... I might just end up getting each of them and wait for the future ones for my next projects.

 

[Dark Ashalia]

Hope you guys enjoy the winter tiles! Next up should be a desert expansion pack

Can't wait

 

[Dungeonmind]

Hope you guys enjoy the winter tiles! Next up should be a desert expansion pack

Your just pouring out tile packs now aren't you? Your taking all my money! Especially when I don't have self-control to wait for a sale. Got Winter pack for full price (to good to pass up!) and not much saved on jungle pack and the base pack I bought full price as well. I have to say there are a lot of tiles available to make a game with now. I might have to give it a go and when your newest pack comes out, I'll probably insta-buy that to.  

 

[Celianna]

Your just pouring out tile packs now aren't you? Your taking all my money! Especially when I don't have self-control to wait for a sale. Got Winter pack for full price (to good to pass up!) and not much saved on jungle pack and the base pack I bought full price as well. I have to say there are a lot of tiles available to make a game with now. I might have to give it a go and when your newest pack comes out, I'll probably insta-buy that to.  

Well, it is my goal to have a wide variety of tiles out in this art style, so that people can have something that suits the genre of the game they're making.


However, Ancient Dungeons will have to wait, as my next pack will be an MV release, after that it'll be the desert theme for AD.


I am however, toying with the idea of making sprites for Ancient Dungeons

 

[BCj]

What kind of sprites?

 

[Celianna]

NPC sprites, about 55 px high

 

[GolfHacker]

@Celianna Ancient Dungeon sprites? YES, PLEASE!!! This is the missing piece that I see right now with the A.D. set. If you do that, please include the sprite bases too, so we can create/add our own custom clothes, skin tones, etc. Thank you!

 

[Tsukitsune]

@Celianna Oooh, really love the style of those sprites. Only problem I'd have would be, is there enough to replace all my current sprites? If you made it as like an expansion to the character hub, I think it'd be great.

 

[GolfHacker]

Or usable in the Ace or MV character generators. I don't own the character hub, since it is only available on Steam.


But as long as the individual clothing items, hair, etc. are on separate PNGs or layers, I could overlay them myself anyway I wanted in GIMP.

 

[Celianna]

The issue is the effort really, spritesets are time consuming to make. When I was making the sprites for Rural Farm Tiles, which you can also generate your own sprite with, it took me two and a half months to finish. I also hated every minute of it then again, a lot of that time was spent on making action sprites, and I wouldn't do that. I definitely wouldn't make them fit in the MV generator (I'd die).


I also don't know what the demand for it is like, like even though there's a complete spriteset in Rural Farm Tiles, it's not very popular, so it feels like I've wasted my time on that. Don't want a repeat offender.

 

[GolfHacker]

Definitely wouldn't want you to get burned out making something you don't enjoy making. As nice as your new sprites look, I would be satisfied with a guide for recolouring Ace/Mack sprites to match the Ancient Dungeons look. If you could provide a palette of color choices for various skin tones, hair colors, clothing colors, etc. (including related tones for cell shading, clothing folds, shadows, and so on), that would probably suffice. We could then recolor our existing sprites to match.

 

[Ellie Jane]

Excellent, shall be putting these to good use.

 

[jonthefox]

@Celianna did you do the mapping for the preview screenshots?  And if so, are there any games out there which you've mapped for?  That is some truly impressive work.

 

[beenbaba]

I would kill for sprites to go with the Ancient Dungeons packs, literally kill...


They look really nice, as for the generator thing, I think just something like a PSD file or just a load of PNG's we could use bits from would work great as a generator.


But as you said, if it's not going to be worth it and you'd hate doing it then don't do it. 

 

[paradoxum]

more ancient dungeon ace sets! awesome

 

[Celianna]

@Celianna did you do the mapping for the preview screenshots?  And if so, are there any games out there which you've mapped for?  That is some truly impressive work.

Actually @Lustermx makes most of my sample maps, he does an amazing job with them. I get too busy making the tiles, so I usually have him do the mapping for me. The cave map one is one of my favourites from him.


@beenbaba yeah I'd leave it as a PSD file with all of the layers intact. Right now I'm going to focus on an MV tileset, but I will definitely keep in mind some sprites for AD.

 

[RyanBram]

I also don't know what the demand for it is like, like even though there's a complete spriteset in Rural Farm Tiles, it's not very popular, so it feels like I've wasted my time on that. Don't want a repeat offender.

Just my two cents.


I think the problem with spriteset in Rural Farm Tiles is related to the tiles popularity, not the spriteset by itself. To be honest, I event don't aware about spriteset bonus in Rural Farm Tiles. Maybe it just me, but I think Rural Farm Tiles cartoony style is hard to fit to any themes other than farming itself, which making its usage somewhat limited.


For Ancient Dungeons, I am really sure that everything will be different. It seems very popular, has many expansion, and suitable for many RPG Maker themes. The spriteset will become very nice addition for the whole Ancient Dungeons series. It doesn't need to offer every pose, just in map walking (and maybe running) pose is enough. The generator can be as simple as layered PSD or something like MACK Character generator.


Or you can ask vote in this forums or your own website to collect information how much demand for spriteset and maybe how much people will pay if you release the spriteset just like what this forum has done before releasing official version of RPG Maker 2003.


EDITED:


If everyone want to vote, Celianna already created one in her web.


Best regards,


RyanBram

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

Right now I'm going to focus on an MV tileset, but I will definitely keep in mind some sprites for AD.

Will we still see more AD tilesets for Ace in the future?