I'll join in on this drive I guess. Might as well earn myself a fancy~pancy trophy for my profile since I decided I was going to do some stuff this week anyway.
But, this is actually a really busy week for me. Lots of stuff going on at (and outside of) work. However that does not mean that I can sit around and do nothing, does it? It just means that I'll have to accept that I'll probably do less and set a realistic goal for myself. So here we go!
Parallax Panda's Goal For This Week
During this week (the next 5 days since I'm a little late to the party) I will work on editing MV's "RTP" to make it more unique. I have accepted the reality that I'll probably have to rely on a mix of original
and RTP resources for my games - but even so, I at least want to give them a fresh feel. Hence I'll be leaving no tile untouched as I work my way though all of the tile sheets. Deleting stuff I don't like and changing, hopefully improving (not sure about that tho!

), the tiles that I do like. The important thing is to make it my own so it mixes better with whatever tiles I decide to do myself later on. It's also a learning experience for me since I'm not used to GIMP.
I'll be starting off with the fantasy resources, focusing on the A-tiles first. I want to have at least the A1 and if possible also the A2 tiles done come next monday. I might also try my hands on making a water image to use as a parallax to go with the A1 tiles, but this will be a bonus goal!
Besides the tilesets I'll be working on another thing, my "Game Template", which in itself is not really a game project but rather a project base that I'll use in the future for all the games I'm going to make later on.
What I want done before the end of next monday is to sort my default plugin list. This includes deciding what will be the essential plugins that I'll be using for most, if not all, my projects and what I'm going to have to delete. I want to keep this list as short as possible though. The plugins then have to be placed in the right order so they'll work properly.
Another thing I want to do during this drive is to make a simple "credits" screen and fill it out with whoever I know I'll need to thank based on my default plugin list. This is going to require some research from my part actually since I never made a credit list before and I'll probably create a topic on this forum about this tomorrow if I have time. Well that is all I guess.
In case the above text-wall was to much for you, here is the short version!
1) Edit the A1 and A2 tiles from MV's fantasy RTP.
2) Organize the plugin list for my template project.
3) Make a simple "credits" screen for for above mentioned template project.