Sickhead TGB Tile Pack #1

Sickhead Games' Torque Game Builder Tile Pack #1

With a few weeks between projects here at Sickhead Games, I've decided to take on a Torque Game Builder content pack. The idea is to create a Level Builder-ready 2D sprite and tile pack covering a number of variations of terrain, props, and animated tiles, all presented in classic top-down viewpoint. It will ship with pre-defined image maps, animations, and brush sets which drop right into your current project, documentation on how to use them, and even a small, working demo. The general list of what will be included, and a first pass at the art:

edit: see the subsequent blog post about the tile pack here.

Terrain Tiles:

• various types of grass
• rock and gravel
• dirt, sand, and mud
• transitions between most of the above.
• animated water tiles for lakes and rivers

Barriers:

[li]stone and wooden fences
• hedges
• crevasses and cliffs

Structures:

• tents
• shacks and barns

Foliage and props:

[li]animated trees
• small plants
• decorations to break up tiles (grass highlights, pebbles, puddles etc.)
• rocks, logs, stumps, barrels, etc.

We have preliminary approval to include an animated Torque Orc sprite, presented from the same angle as the tiles...
So the main reason for creating this plan is to get opinions, suggestions, and criticisms from the TGB community about these screenshots, and about anything you'd like to see included in this pack. There will be a very short development cycle on these, just a few weeks, with further packs beyond that if time allows, so I'm trying to get any input as soon as possible. So check these out, and lemme have it!


A few technical points I'd like to hear about...

• 128x128 tiles... sufficient? (click on any image above to see tiles at full-size)
• any suggestions on maximizing the versatility of this pack... we want this to be appropriate for RTS, RPG, anything!
• criticisms about style, size?