OMEGAS7'S PROFILE

Hello folks, I will go straight to the point.

We are developing a new, free 2D RPG Engine. It'll be superior than RPG Maker MV (I am not here to argue and I don't care), and we are hoping for a beta release mid-December or early January. Details are not to be provided yet to the public, but it is a safe bet to assume that in a nutshell it will be quite similar to RPG Maker.

I intend to release the engine with Standard Assets. An "RTP" so to speak.

For natural reasons, I would rather not use RM related resources. In fact, I am hoping to have a different tileset/character/etc style.

At the moment, the most urging resources are tilesets and characters. Faces/bodies can be delayed and are unimportant at this stage.

Tilesets will follow a similar format to RM. They will be square, and consist of 16 tiles by 16 tiles (256). However, the size of each tile will be 64x64 (I'll explain below).

As for characters, I have not yet defined the animation format. I am not even sure if we will support 8 directions yet or the number of frames. However, what I do know is that I don't want chibi characters. Absolutely not. I want taller characters similar to XP. In our case they would be like 64x96.

You may be wondering: why 64x64 and not 32x32? Why 64x96 and not 32x48? That's because we will support variable tile sizes (you can pick 16x16, or 32x32, or 48x48 or 64x64), so the largest tile size is 64x64 and then we simply scale down depending on the user's choice. In other words, this is almost equivalent to creating normal 32x32 tiles and then upscaling them to 64x64 (without quality loss). Also, 64x64 allows for crips images in modern mobile retina devices.

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Who am I looking for

If you are a capable tileset/character artists, PM me. Remember: I am looking for a style that is different than RPG Maker VX/Ace/MV. I kinda like RMXP style, although maybe needs some more polish.

Save the two of us time and include samples of your tileset/character works. It is very likely we will have to develop a brand new style, though. Also tell me of your pricing expectancies (obviously the price will vary per piece but it's not bad to have an estimate). Unless you want to work for free ;)

A good rule of thumb: I want characters and tilesets that do NOT make people think that a game was made with RPG Maker resources.

Thanks.