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Development => Programming => Topic started by: guest509 on January 29, 2012, 09:49:17 AM

Title: Using Crawl or Nethack Tiles
Post by: guest509 on January 29, 2012, 09:49:17 AM

  You think the Crawl or Nethack guys would mind if I used their tiles for my card game?

  I could always use the Oryx tiles or give a go at creating my own. But I really like the Nethack and Crawl ones. My game is a bit of an homage so I think the graphics would be nice.

-Jo


EDIT: Okay now I feel dumb. Here are some public domain tiles. I had forgotten about them...
http://rltiles.sourceforge.net/

Title: Re: Using Crawl or Nethack Tiles
Post by: Darren Grey on January 29, 2012, 03:57:27 PM

You can also use David Gervais tiles:

http://pousse.rapiere.free.fr/tome/tome-tiles.htm

Title: Re: Using Crawl or Nethack Tiles
Post by: guest509 on January 29, 2012, 11:43:26 PM

  Those are great as well. I'll see how they look on the cards and go from there.

Title: Re: Using Crawl or Nethack Tiles
Post by: IBOL on April 04, 2012, 03:17:20 PM

i sure would like an answer to this original question as well.
nethack and crawl have some awesome tiles...and i am no 2D artist. ;)

Title: Re: Using Crawl or Nethack Tiles
Post by: guest509 on April 05, 2012, 09:55:15 AM

  I second that. What is free to use and what is not? And what restrictions? I've noticed none so far on the Gervais tiles. I could be missing something. And what about Nethack? Crawl? All free to use? Credit needed? What if money were to be made?

  The money part might not be that important now. But what if someone were to capitalize on nostalgia and make a few dollars while putting the images into their game?

  Something to think about, surely.

Title: Re: Using Crawl or Nethack Tiles
Post by: Krice on April 05, 2012, 12:02:55 PM

Quote from: Jo on April 05, 2012, 09:55:15 AM

And what about Nethack? Crawl? All free to use?

If not sure, ask permission from the author of the tiles. Some people seem to think that if the game is freeware it's ok to use tiles from it. No, it's not ok. It's illegal actually.

Worse thing is that it looks lame. It's far better use own design and look in the game, it will be much better than same old tiles used in n+1 projects.

Title: Re: Using Crawl or Nethack Tiles
Post by: kuro on April 30, 2012, 01:07:03 PM

 I second that. What is free to use and what is not

Title: Re: Using Crawl or Nethack Tiles
Post by: IBOL on April 30, 2012, 03:31:16 PM

well, http://rltiles.sourceforge.net/ are free, as long as you provide their information any time you use them (which i have forgotten to do...bad me...)
and those provide quite a lot ot work from.

but i would not use anything else without contacting the owner/developer/artist/whatever.
i downloaded lots of sprite sheets, but i'm afraid to use them :(

(as krice said freeware does not equal "steal my assets"...but if you ask and give credit, lots of people are ok with it)

i'm using a combination of the david gervais tiles , and a few from http://rltiles.sourceforge.net/

Title: Re: Using Crawl or Nethack Tiles
Post by: requerent on May 04, 2012, 05:26:56 PM

www.opengameart.org

Might find something there- all of it is free to use.