For years, I have had the goal of allowing QONQR players to help me create skins for the game. The things that have held me back are:
- Are my images the correct size to start with?
- Do I really want to expose so much of our intellectual property to just give away all the images?
- Building a site to allow community asset management is alot of work.
- Is this a smart use of my time.
- I did some checking on #1 today. For the most part, we did get the images sized about correctly, so down sampling is not too significant. I know it isn't perfect everywhere, but I can't worry about being perfect.
- I'm not as concerned about #2 as I used to be.
- I'm not doing #3. If someone wants to make a skin, it will be a manual process for me to trade files with them until the manual way becomes too much work.
- #4 we all need something fun right now. I'm going to throw this out there with only a few hours invested. We'll see if anything comes back.
One year for April Fools, we created the "Cheese Pirate" downloadable skin. That laid the ground work for additional skins. If you want to make one, and you do a pretty good job, I'll add it to the app. Here is a list of every image in the app. I currently manage almost 3000 image assets for just the mobile app, for only iOs and Android. It takes about 485 to completely replace every image in the app, for a single resolution.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1PowmH6m1epHLgMSWtZ98x-BM7y7...sp=sharing
Here is a zip file of the images that are most commonly used for most iOS Phones. These are the "@2x" images, plus a few misc images I never made upscale versions for. If you are going to build a skin, I recommend targeting this image size. It is a good compromise between download size and quality. If you are a photoshop wiz, you can setup exports for every possible size (in the google sheet doc) and we can make multiple skin packages.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/f6m8c4wwwmtsabu/QONQR_Images.zip?dl=0
The Cheese Pirate skin was achieved by applying a color tint to the standard QONQR blue images, then replacing a few dozen specific images. We can try that for your theme if you want, check with me before you replace every single image, if you think tinting might work.
If you are forced to be home for the next few weeks or months, and are looking for a fun project that finally gives you a chance to learn Photoshop or some other graphics tool, let's talk. If you are willing to put in the time to make a skin, I'll do what I can to support that. This could be a fun project where a whole group of people work together crank out some images.
If your wondering what happens to them long term, who owns the copyright, etc, etc, etc. Let's chat. For now, I'm happy to just see what the community wants to do.