Some sample maps using the new tiles, courtesy of Degica For anyone who's interested, Degica has released some
modern day tiles that were created mostly by Lunarea with some help from Celianna. The package costs $6.99 and the graphics are high-quality if a little sparse. It comes with one full tilesheet for inner areas, one mostly full tilesheet for outer areas, as well as another small tilesheet. It also comes with Tiles A-E, both inner and outer, but most of those have only two or three resources in them. As well, there are some additional objects in four character sheets.
Additionally, a
Modern Day Shop Addon has been released which comes with even more graphics. It is $5.99.
The end-user licence agreement for the resource pack is included in a spoiler below. Basically you can use it in any project you make with an enterbrain product you have purchased, whether you release the project commercially or non-commercially. You can also edit the graphics for personal use in your project, but you cannot distribute any of the resources even if you have modified them. When you release a project that uses these tiles, you also have to include documentation that credits Celianna and Lunarea with the following line: [Copyright](C) 2012 ENTERBRAIN, INC; artists Lunarea and Celianna.
Spoiler for EULA :
V. "RPG MAKER Modern Tiles Resource Pack" END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT IMPORTANT, READ CAREFULLY. PLEASE READ THIS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT (THE "AGREEMENT") CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS RESOURCE PACK. IF YOU (THE "USER") DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS, CONDITIONS AND LIMITATIONS OF THIS AGREEMENT, PROMPTLY DELETE THE DIGITAL CONTENT FROM YOUR COMPUTER. 1. Copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights of RPG MAKER Modern Tiles Resource Pack (the "Product") are property of ENTERBRAIN, INC (the "Company" or "ENTERBRAIN") and third party allowed by the Company. 2. The graphics included in the Product (the "Resource Pack") may be used with any of ENTERBRAIN's game development software (include all related titles of "RPG MAKER Series" or "our products") that retains the Company's rights. User can create, distribute, or sell their original game by using the Resource Pack only if they meet all the following conditions: 2.1 You must be a legitimate user of our products. You shall promptly sign up and register required information as a legitimate user of our products according to the method prescribed by the Company. 2.2 You shall produce a game using the RPG MAKER Series only. 2.3 Your game must include additional documentation that clearly indicates the use of the MResource Pack and the following copy: [Copyright](C) 2012 ENTERBRAIN, INC; artists Lunarea and Celianna. 2.4 Solely used for the creation of your game, you can edit, process, and modify the materials contained in the Resource Pack. 2.5 Do not sell, distribute, lease, or transfer the Resource Pack itself (even if the materials were edited, process, or modified by the User). 3. The Company will bear no responsibility for any damages to the User's computer caused by misuse of the Product. 4. By using the Product, the User accepts the full terms and takes sole responsibility for use of the Product. 5. The Company will bear no responsibility for any issues and disputes between third parties, regardless of the content, that occur as a result of the creation, distribution, and release of the User's game by using the Product.
While I initially felt that the number of resources provided were not really enough to make more than a few scenes in the modern-day setting, the bonus tiles and the Modern-Day Shop Addon give enough tile diversity that I think a nice game could be made out of them without repetition. Quality modern-day resources are scarce, and I think these resource packs are essential for anyone who wishes to make a game set in modern times in RTP-style.