Contribute¶
You wan’t to contribute your own tiles? That’s super cool!
Just send us an e-mail to tiles@alpaka.world with your tiles and we will try to incorporate them into this page. We might offer some other way of contribution in the future (git?), but for the moment this is the simplest way for everybody.
There are some guidelines though:
You have to have made the images yourself. Don’t just copy some random images of the internet and send them to us. We want this to be a nice and shiny tileset for everybody in our community to use. Be excellent to each other!
This includes copyrighted material, please try to make your work original and don’t just recreate a piece of art that somebody else made. Respect the creative works and copyrights of other people.
You allow us to release the images free of charge under a CC-BY 4.0 license. Obviously your name (if not explicitly state otherwise) will be credited.
This is a curated tileset. We might decide not to use any or all of your contribution. Obviously we won’t accept any imagery that is illegal.
Your image has to be a PNG image. JPG will destroy your wonderful art.
Please use only colors from our palette. (see below)
Tools¶
There is no required tool that you need in order to start pixeling. You actually only need a single feature in your favorite image editing program. The ability to color individual pixels. So, nothing is stopping you from using MS Paint; the current version even allows you to specify a palette.
Obviously there are better tools suited for the job. One of our favorites is a nifty little program called Aseprite Sadly that program is neither open source nor free.
Note
The developer has released the older version for free. So if your unsure if you want to spend the money just try that one for a start: https://www.aseprite.org/older-versions/
Just pick any image editing software that you are acustomed to, or use the opportunity to learn a new tool.
Palette / Colors¶
In order to a have consistent color style, we’ve decided to only use the DB32 palette.
This might seems limiting at first, but we promise you, that’s plenty of color. We believe that in this case, less is more.
We might loosen this restriction some time in the future but currently we only accept tiles with these colors.
Here are the individual colors including their codes.