Virtual Pet Collector stole all of crawls sprites

[axebeardy]

http://www.androidzoom.com/android_game ... _loay.html

This game, just played it, shamelessly uses all the same name and tiles for its monsters and items. Is there something going on here?

[danr]

I think Crawl uses a FOSS tileset that is also used by other games.

[Curio]

Try Elona then. You'll be surprised how many item tiles from Crawl there.
Most of which also from nethack

[mageykun]

Try Elona then. You'll be surprised how many item tiles from Crawl there.
Most of which also from nethack

This.

First time I ever saw a rune and it wasn't even in crawl. They're used as common minerals. On the world map, no less!

Laaaaaaaame.

[timophy]

Hi guys. I'm the developer of the game Virtual Pet Collector. I'm actually a really HUGE fan of DCSS, It's one of my two favorite games along with Dwarf Fortress.

I got the most of my early tiles from http://rltiles.sourceforge.net/ which claims they are in the public domain. I've replaced many of them with purchased artwork since the beginning but there are still many RLTiles in place. I don't really make any money from my game so it's taking a while to purchase better artwork for it.

I've also used the tiles in another game I made for 7DRL.
http://www.timothysmurphy.com/games/Ari ... index.html

I believe I found out about them from RogueBasin.
http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment. ... ical_tiles

I was under the impression these tiles were in the public domain to encourage new game development and make it easier for programmers to quickly get stuff out there. Am I wrong?

[danr]

I think Crawl uses a FOSS tileset that is also used by other games.

Hey, I was right!

No worries Timophy, this was just a post by one person who didn't realize that rltiles != DCSS property.