Battle for Mandicor has a few passable units:
https://github.com/saniv/free-game-art/ ... sets/units

The peasant sprite in particular is not that and has well placed player color areas.

crude lumber mill edited out of Daniel Harris sprites (http://opengameart.org/content/lots-of- ... y-hyptosis)

Initial swamp tileset.

Mushroom sprite is based of GPL2 licensed mushrooms.png from Mana World MMORPG; Roots and terrain came from the public domain Daniel Harris "Hyptosis" tileset (http://opengameart.org/content/mage-city-arcanos)

CC-BY-SA sea monster by Alisa Christopher "Tana" (http://alisachristopher.deviantart.com/ ... -483796759)

Could be a nice submarine replacement.

Warcraft 2 snow is just a recolored mud. So I recolored my grassland mud tiles to get similar snow.

MrFlibble wrote:Besides, wouldn't it be altogether better for Aleona's Tales to have its own graphics than to recycle material borrowed from elsewhere?

You're welcome to produce it

Warcraft 2 uses so called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_projection#Military_projection which is pretty close to isometric projection, used for most Wesnoth units. There is a significant difference; compare the perspective of AoE's (isometric) buildings with those of WC2, for instance. Less ...

They don't seem to have the right perspective for a top-down game. Also, the rocks on that screenshot could use some fixing for more smooth transitions between adjacent tiles. Warcraft 2 uses so called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_projection#Military_projection which is pretty close to iso...

Wesnoth includes a few high quality animated sprites, suitable for RTS games:
https://github.com/saniv/free-game-art/ ... s-complete


some directions are missing, but still suitable for an RTS game.

MrFlibble wrote:Hey, sorry for a belated reply! Thanks for the info! Do you know if there are any places to read more about the project (apart from anything that the Wayback Machine might have archived, that is)?

I advice you to contact Lutz Sammer and people involved with the project early on.