For designing tile based levels and previewing my pixel art tiles I often use "Tiled" as mentioned by Rabid

Sved has recommended one of the better tools for making a complete RPG game as quick and efficiently as possible but if you're simply talking about the world/areas within your rpg game look into Tiled as a map editor. It's pretty good and I love it!

Hi everyone...

Well I made a few top down shooter character sprites (just for fun) as a distraction or break to what I was working on and I think they turned out pretty well, I would like to just donate them to the community, I've seen a fair amount of people posting FREE sprites and such but I don't know if anyone will use or need them, keep in mind it's pixel art :P

I will continue adding to these over the next couple of days, I initially hoped to get them out and ready for everyone really quickly but I needed to get a few things done and couldn't spend most of my Saturday working on the computer. I have a video teaser of some of the content so that you can see the quality and two of the animations. I hope you enjoy!

Video:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2O8Is5MG0c

Pack Contents:(once complete)

A fully animated character

A ton of icons/pickups

Environment tiles

Demo level

Enemies

[Update]

Here is an unfinished set of the sprites including most of what is shown in the video and a little more. I will give you the Paint.net file (when I can post links) and the simple png image below. I will be updating it when I can but for right now this is still a work in progress.

Feel free to use in your personal or commercial games, just provide credit where it's due.

.png:

https://copy.com/9mzLAWx0MOHt

.pdn:

https://copy.com/PkJXHkimFWVa

Best Regards

Patriick

PS

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You're 100% more likely to get a response if you were to give a little more information!

This post is a little bland... or vague.

(We?)

Well I think that it couldn't hurt and as long as the training is good it will become popular. People are always looking to learn new things and I am sure many would appreciate it!

Hi... I am new here too and I'm loving Construct so far! Here is my advice for the software(s) that you're asking about.

1. There are a few to name for this but ultimately most people will probably recommend Photoshop. If however you cannot get the 'student' version or simply cannot afford it. Look at GIMP (Link: http://www.gimp.org/)

If you have any trouble with those feeling too complex, have a look at Paint.net (Link: http://www.getpaint.net/) but I am not sure if this one works on Mac or not...

2. There are so many tools out there that fit your feature requirements for this. I will name some below... Although Audacity (Link: http://audacity.sourceforge.net) is probably one of the most popular free Audio recording/editing applications out there.

Ardour - http://ardour.org/

LMMS - http://lmms.sourceforge.net/

There are other *paid* softwares like:

Reason

Fruity Loops

Reaper - This one offers a discounted license and is worth looking into! http://lmms.sourceforge.net/

There are more but that should do for now :P

3. I would say Camtasia Studio as it's pretty much the best one out there but it comes with a fairly large price tag. If you want free I would suggest... CamStudio. An open source screen recording software.

CamStudio - http://camstudio.org/

Well I hope that helps you out with what to use/get =]