Tilesets made in the fairly rudementary Microsoft Paint program normally fall into one of three categories: absolutely awful with no effort, an honest attempt but still not very good, and adequate for a tileset but an amazing masterpiece for an MS Paint tileset. To truly make a worthwhile tileset in MS Paint requires time, patience, and a whole lot more ability to not pull your hair out than I will ever posess. Suberia, which sounds like it could be a planet out of nearly any space game ever created, is a fairly simple tileset. If you have ever reviewed many tilesets made in Paint, you’ll know that simple is what to expect. The entire tileset itself occupies 34 32-pixel lines but is followed by annoying stencil remnants that at least take up double the room the tileset does (removing these to reduce filesize would have been welcome, especially if you are going to host levels with this tileset often.) Included are some nice-looking general purpose colored blocks and ground that suspiciously resembles grandmother’s banana bread. The green sucker tubes look acceptable, but without textures or anything complicated don’t look professional. Blue mountains that look similar in quality (pretty lame but acceptable in MS Paint) to Blade’s mountains in Aztec are there if you so desire mountain-y layer seven eyecandy. Street lights add an interesting touch to the tileset, which is obviously going for a city look. In fact, if you look at the tileset long enough, it almost looks like some cartoony MS Paint version of Toxic Bunny’s War Torn Night tileset (a la Distopia) minus the war torn part. Then there are some Mario-ish transfer tubes that are way to narrow to suffice for anything other than eyecandy. Then there is a block that literally has “warp” written all over it. This is followed by a collection of letters and symbols for printing out your bids of worship to the Snufuss. A shameless clan ad for backgrounds of tunnels that look sort of like spraypaintings adorn the bottom of this tileset, followed by the blue versions of the mountains earlier in the tileset. While I doubt that it will be used much beyond Atomic Clan levels, its not the word MS Paint tileset that there ever was. Still, it’s an MS Paint tileset and not an amazing one at that. I have always had trouble rating MS Paint-made tilesets because they all have that cartoony look, but this one is fairly clear. My rating for this tileset is a 5.7. It may not be graphically amazing or textured like tilesets made in PSP or Photoshop, but it does have a nice homely feel. Worth a download if you’re interested in MS Paint tilesets, but everyone else probably will not be missing much.
Suberbia
Tileset, by Atomic Mike,
requires version 1.23
Description
This Tileset is my best so far. I still have to build my tilesets in MS Paint because I don’t have any other good programs. So try it out and tell me what you think!
Contains 1 Files
 Suberbia.j2t |
Suberbia | 36.25 kB |
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American Posted more than 20 years ago
RSPSS FR Posted more than 20 years ago
Overall, an low-quality suberb tileset, but for a first tileset, which I assume it is, it’s pretty good. The ground features rather dull-looking dirt with stones in it. The buildings are also, apparently, made of dirt with brick walls. One gripe is the noticable lack of destruct scenery. As for eyecandy, this tileset sports two different colors of strange-looking mounatins and some streetlamps.