A contest I'd like to do eventually

[GigaLem]

I've seen so many level design contests that, personally I'd to hold one of these one day.

This one is what I'd like to do is a Graphic Set design contest a "Make a good Tileset contest" if you will.

The Idea is exactly what it says on the tin, and then some.

1.You make a graphic set from scratch or based on another game of something like that
2.once the set is made you make at least one level to show it off.
3.submit
4.if its approved, you're all done.

There would be criterias that would need to be met. (If you're curious, I'll elaborate) But those would be set if we decide to do one of these.

If we needed trophies, Look at my ideas for the trophies in the spoiler below

Spoiler

Pillar Trophy
1st Place

Metal Trophy
2nd Place

Dirt Trophy
3rd Place

DMA Trophy
Graphic set that wouldn't be out of place in the Original Lemmings

Raymanni Trophy
Best art in a graphic set

Plus Trophy
Graphic set that could work in a Lemmings Plus pack

Crossover Trophy
Best set that originates from another video game

Sky Trophy
Best graphic set that has mostly rough pieces

Amiga Demoscene Trophy
Best graphic set that is a love letter to the Lemmings computer of Origin

Nepster Trophy
Best unique set submitted

Weasel Trophy
Best Trap

Namida Trophy
Best idea on an existing neolemmix object.

Remix Trophy
Best graphic set made from an existing set

Psygnosis Trophy
Best graphic set made from a VGAspec level

Feel free to express your thoughts.

[Flopsy]

Sounds like a good idea especially as there seems to be a lot of inspired graphic set creators recently. I've known of quite a few people who have benefited from my Graphic Set Tool tutorial on my channel.

Plus I think new tilesets have been kind of underappreciated on here as of late.

I suppose an obvious criteria is any graphic set which has been formally released on the forums such that people can download it is automatically excluded and it is only allowed for newer tilesets.

Personally I think you're the perfect host for this type of contest GigaLem since I'm always blown away by your artistic creations

I think the trophies is a terrific idea and great touch as well, it would encourage more entries because then it wouldn't be a case of the best skilled graphic set creator just winning the best tileset which would happen if it's set up like the standard level design contests.

Some drawbacks I see are:
1. Tilesets are not exactly as straightforward to create as levels so we'd need a very long submission period, at least double that of level design contests perhaps a vital topic of discussion here
2. This probably wouldn't be able to be hosted in the Level Design Contest forum because it's not a level design contest. But I think it would fit nicely in the Graphic Sets forum.
3. How would the voting work in this especially considering there are so many trophies?

Those are just a few things which come to mind, but I'm definitely for this idea. I would like to encourage more new tilesets from the community on top of the great selection we already have.

If you are short of tileset ideas, Wafflem posted a lot of ideas he had somewhere on here but I don't know where so I think someone else may be able to link it.

[GigaLem]

Some drawbacks I see are:
1. Tilesets are not exactly as straightforward to create as levels so we'd need a very long submission period, at least double that of level design contests perhaps a vital topic of discussion here
2. This probably wouldn't be able to be hosted in the Level Design Contest forum because it's not a level design contest. But I think it would fit nicely in the Graphic Sets forum.
3. How would the voting work in this especially considering there are so many trophies?

to address this
1.Yes it'll be a long submission period, I've seen stuff like Make a good Megaman Level contest and of course Sonic Hacking Contest and they have a large time frame to make a submission
2.It would be appropriate to diverge the Graphic Set sub-forum to its own part of the forum (Like Lix and Projects) where it'll have a sub forum of its own for contests and discussions
3.Strawpoll, when we find candidates for each trophy a strawpoll will be made. and on top of this, if there are entries that are the only one of a certain trophy. There would be the Honorable Mention Trophy for the Best Graphic set for being the only of its category.

[namida]

It can go in the contests board, no problem there.

[Ryemanni]

I would definitely participte.

The tilesets should also be judged from a level design standpoint. Is it easy to make level with the set, is it flexible, how many pieces are there, etc.

[DoubleU]

It would be difficult. All the custom graphic styles I've seen so far are awful, at least by comparison to the original Lemmings and ONML.

[SQron188]

Nice idea, that. I'm currently messing about with this stuff, but - as always - I'm not promising anything!

[mobius]

I might join something like that. I've always wanted to make a graphic set but it's a lot of work and time. The contest would need to be on for a while.

[Dullstar]

I find this idea interesting, but I don't think straight-up game rips should be allowed; if they do end up being allowed for the contest, they should be given their own category. I don't, however, have any issue with allowing recolored sprites from existing Lemmings titles, so long as the majority of the set is original. If one wanted to make a tileset that fits with the originals, for instance, it would make sense to recolor the steel and entrances rather than drawing completely new ones.

[GigaLem]

Game rips rips can be allowed to an extent
I Can allow recycling objects at the very least, for those who can't sprite as well.
-entrances
-steel
-exit
-trap
-Pickup skill
-Preplaced lemming
-one way arrows

on another topic, if we can put this contest together, I would want to do early-ish next year.
as for submission time frame what would be good enough? 2 months or 3?