Liberated Pixel Cup game competition

[cwebber]

Hi all,

The FSF, Creative Commmons, Mozilla, and OpenGameArt are all collaborating on running a free culture meets free software game contest called Liberated Pixel Cup, as you might have heard.

http://lpc.opengameart.org/

It's a two part competition where we have a styleguide and set of "base" assets, and the first part of the competition is making artwork that maches that style guide, and the second part of the contest involves making games using artwork from the base set and from the art competition. Artwork is released under CC BY-SA 3.0 and GPLv3, and code is released under GPLv3 or later (you have the option to also dual license with Apache/MIT/BSD whatever else you prefer).

The reason I'm writing to this list is: we'd love your participation! (and #love people on OFTC encouraged me to post here when I mentioned it a few months ago.)

Sound exciting? I suggest you check out the style guide / assets / "interactive demo game":

http://lpc.opengameart.org/static/lpc-s ... index.html

And the rules:

http://lpc.opengameart.org/content/lpc-rules

If you're curious, we also have a progress pic thread going on here... some cool stuff being done already!

http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/progr ... working-on

And if you use IRC, please feel free to join us in #liberatedpixelcup on irc.freenode.net!

Hope to see you get involved!

- Christopher Allan Webber

[Kadoba]

This is pretty cool. I probably wont participate but I really enjoy compos where the art assets are made separately. I don't know if anyone remembers the TIG Source assembly compo but a lot of really good quality free-to-use resources came out of that. Of special note was the Oryx tilsets which has been used in games like Realm of the Mad God, Hack Slash Loot, and Dungeons of Fayt.

[coffee]

This is pretty cool. I probably wont participate but I really enjoy compos where the art assets are made separately. I don't know if anyone remembers the TIG Source assembly compo but a lot of really good quality free-to-use resources came out of that. Of special note was the Oryx tilsets which has been used in games like Realm of the Mad God, Hack Slash Loot, and Dungeons of Fayt.

There is as usually some confusion about Oryx tileset. Hack, Slash, Loot is not based in Oryx tiles but in the original artwork of the same game author Oddball. Oryx tileset is also inspired in Oddball set (http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=8834.0). Unfortunately Oryx license is not so permissive as Oddball one. Besides no commercial projects aren't allowed (there was some buzz because Realm is commercial but some compensation was made) there isn't also possible alter or work having Oryx set as base.

[dreadkillz]

Wow a lot of great sprites and tiles on that website. Thanks for all the links.