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Make the game yourself?Nah, I know my limitations. I neither got the skills or endurance when it comes to programming. I've tried before.
Gamemaker is not hard to learn and you can do anything you want with it.
Also if you go on the Gamemaker Forums there are programmers looking for graphics all the time.
Don't scare people with documents
I'd assume that a message like this will work fine to find a partner: "Hey I have made some nice tiles for a roguelike game, and I also have a few ideas for the game itself. I'm looking for someone to make a game with, someone who's got some programming skills as well."
It would have to be a very generous developer to take a full design specification and program it according to order. Most developers would probably prefer to have some input into the design process.It would be different, but that's not necessary a bad thing?PS: Like Krice I think that once you have a good plan for the game it should be fairly easy to find someone who will bring the world alive. The tiles are very attractive, and I'm sure many will want to make something with them.
With tiles this large, you need to "condense" the game somewhat, since the player will see only a fairly small part of the world. But it could make up for a very interesting game, with a high monster and item density, so that the player has a lot to do while progressing, and that small distances feel like a big accomplishment. You'll have to limit ranged combat though, which might or might not be a problem, depending on your monsters and character types.
...I also guess you could complement with a more simple map that you could bring up. Another option is to have the view scrollable. I think Dungeons of Dredmore have a similar solution. Seems to be a bit backwards game design when you first draw tiles and have a rough idea of the gameplay. It makes the work of a programmer harder if there is no plan. However if there was a plan I think it's not that hard to find someone to do the programming part, even for free. It depends somewhat on how complex game you have in mind. Usually artists and other non-programmers don't understand how difficult it is to create a full feature RPG or roguelike. I think that if you want this to succeed you need a detailed plan of the game, not just some rough ideas.
The other option is do it the right way: join a team/programmer/designer who needs graphics, then wait for instructions what to draw.
That's when I started to think about making a game. When it comes to the implementation, programing langage, kind of RPG system etc. I'm really flexible. I could probably create some kind of "design document" and leave out those parts. One word of advice - to facilitate use in a game, the spritesheet would need to be a bit more organised, especially the wall tiles. Try to arrange them in a way that places tiles with similar purposes on the same row or column and adjacent, insofar as possible.
You'd definitely be able to get a ToME prototype with a custom tileset running in less than an hour I'd say, particularly if you just re-used the example code and ignored gameplay to show off the look and feel of your graphics instead.
Of course if you're keen on making tiles, I know a certain game that's going to be needing some 16x16 tiles very shortly
...We'll see.