Working on the concepts for my first ever attempted tileset - Cyberspace. My goal is to merge Tron (old and new) and Neuromancer's view of Cyberspace. After looking at a lot of pictures of the classic Tron movie, (I'm familiar with the new one but its aesthetics are easier to remember --- translucent grey), I've decided on a few concepts:
- Floor tiles will be translucent, with rounded edges, and optional extra-layer tiles (of various colors) with subdued tick marks
- Borders will be brightly colored blue/orange/white and should layer on top of the 2 floor tile layers
- Stairs should resemble tubes of energy
- Buildings will be mostly seamless (Cyberspace doesn't use bricks after all) with edges around the borders. Some will have "hints" of height. Roofs will be mostly solid (a building is a protected area) with subtle patterns, if any.
- I'll try to add some energy lines, thinner than the stairs, sort of like Cyberspace's bridges, although probably not auto-tiled since they are thin lines in varying directions
The tiles will be meant to exist over darkness (fun with Parallax backgrounds), since all depictions of Cyberspace I've ever read have most of Cyberspace being quite empty.
Of course, taking the ideas into actual tilesets is the real challenge.