[OpenDesign] The Liberated Pixel Cup

Fri Apr 13 20:25:44 UTC 2012

On 04/12/2012 05:14 PM, Kat Braybrooke wrote:
> Hi Rob - great to see you and your design expertise represented in the
> group!

Heya. :-)

> This initiative to incentivise the creation of 'open' games is

LPC's use of a well-known and well liked but still current aesthetic, 
that of retro 16-bit isometric tile computer games, is interesting 
because it serves as a kind of shared style guide. This makes it much 
easier to create designs that can be used together, which is a problem a 
couple of game designers I've spoken to recently have mentioned with 
free culture graphics resources.

> interesting - and I like how they've mentioned the Tango Desktop/GUI
> project - reminds me that it would be good to get more of these sorts of
> designers involved in what we're discussing.

I owe you some names... I'll sort that out this weekend.

> Is anyone on this list so far a self-defined game or GUI designer? :)

Thank you to those people who forwarded the email to lists I didn't know 
about. :-D

And yes, are there any game designers on here? I'd be very interested in 
any feedback about The Liberated Pixel Cup.

The current Creative Commons 4.0 license revision discussion is focusing 
on several issues affecting games, so I do recommend anyone interested 
get involved with that.

- Rob.