Style intake, asset creation

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Sup peeps.

Currently in the process of churning out some assets to possibly put on the asset store, I am thinking GUI sheets, Art kits, Pictogram sets and such.

Just curios as to what people are interested in to add to my list. Currently creating a 500+ Pictogram icon pack which will be up sometime next week for $5-$10. Just putting my toes in the water :slight_smile:

Thanks
-C

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$5~$10 for 500+ icon pack sounds like a bargain! Would definitely check it out!

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$10 for a 500+ Pictogram icon pack? Sounds like youā€™re selling yourself short IMO.

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Its very minimal, daily use icon pack, not incredibly detailed one of a kind, single use stylized :slight_smile: Im interested in created moreā€¦ specialized pictograms in smaller batches of 60 tho for the $10 mark. we shall see.

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If you have stuff like a speech bubble, a plus and minus, a fork and knife. a plane, a briefcase etc it saves me time since there is an overhead to making these icons no matter how simple they are. A pack of 500+ I only expect basic minimal icons that are prototype quality, even if thereā€™s only a couple I need itā€™s useful to me it would save time and even something youā€™ve done quickly would be better quality than what I would pump out.

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Thats the idea, Iā€™m aiming for mass sale for general use rather than one time use with low-audience sale. $10 may be cheap, but if 10 people have the right mind as you then thats $100 right there. it all ads up, same way apps sell for 99c

I just need to know what else people would like, maybe there is a particular style game package not up? or gui?

Reference to style, first pass and some need tidying up:
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20 dollars iā€™d say. maybe with asset store sale for 10 dollars.

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Might be a little tricky, there are tons of free/open source resources like this out there already. Maybe if there were in some way Unity ā€œreadyā€ or something it might make it worth it. But it is hard to justify with the availability of similar quality/content for free and a variety of options (svg/vector/fonts). No harm in trying though, you might be able to get sales from folks who donā€™t know about the others or donā€™t know how to use vector formats.

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If I wanted something like this and it was on the Asset Store for a reasonable price Iā€™d just buy it, even though I know I can find similar stuff for free. Why?

  1. Why spend time looking for it when Iā€™ve already found it?
  2. Consistent quality and style.
  3. Iā€™ll probably use it more than once.
  4. No license foibles like a lot of the ā€œfreeā€ stuff online has. I mean seriously, have you actually read the licenses that come with most ā€œfreeā€ fonts at DaFont.com? I was looking at stuff there the other night, and of a dozen or so fonts labelled as ā€œfreeā€ that I downloaded only two of the licenses actually backed that up. Which also plays back into point 1, because the misleading labelling made the whole thing far more time consuming than it had to me.
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Yea, ā€œfreeā€ rarely means what it used to. I was mostly referring to the open source projects/sets like:
http://www.somerandomdude.com/work/open-iconic/

There are tons some great open-source projects/resources for icons/clipart/etc (a lot sprung up a while ago when svg/inkscape became popular). DaFont and such are generally a source to be avoided if your end use is commercial. Though, to be fair, there are have been licensing issues with content in the asset store (even now there is content for ā€œsaleā€ that originated from things licensed CC-BY). The asset store isnā€™t immune from such issues.

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Itā€™s so far a decent looking set, and depending on what the full 500 looked like (and assuming they come with full vector source), I very well might drop the $10 for it. Look forward to seeing the final.

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Yeah I understand you can get free pictograms on the web, but like angry has said, thats what im aiming for. Im focusing primarily at the people who dont want to dig around. those who just stumble across it on the asset store and say, ā€˜what the heck is $10 and ill use some eventuallyā€™. Received pretty positive feed back so far so just need to get it finished nowā€¦ Ill post an update later this evening I think.

Thanks everyone, once again the main purpose of this thread is to get ideas for future assets to release. so please post your ideas if you have any :slight_smile:

-C

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Charlie -

I think itā€™s a great idea. I also think youā€™re selling yourself a little short. I think you could easily do $15 to $20 for the pack. It would be even better if, as said, you could maybe make them Unity Ready by setting up some sprite sheets and some GUI (or other) elements to use them. If the pack includes the PSD / AI (Iā€™m guessing youā€™re using Illustrator or something similar) files it also makes them easier to tweak if folks want. I love the look of what youā€™re doing so far and I think they would be fantastic especially for folks targeting mobile and tablets.

As angrypenguin said, the other benefit here is the licensing. Since youā€™re creating these elements thereā€™s not so much worry about licensing. Iā€™ve run into the trap with licensing of ā€œfreeā€ stuff as well. You can spend hours searching for fonts, music and iconsā€¦ only to download zip files and find restrictive licensing. I personally donā€™t mind attribution licenses and would likely provide credit (with authorā€™s permission) even if they werenā€™t under the CC Attribution licenseā€¦ but when works say they are free for commercial use there should be just that.

Great work and keep it up!

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Thanks Dustin!

Been taking a break to think about how im going to go about it a lot today. come up with the following

-500 icons, in 3 line weights amounting to a total of 1500.
-In 64x, 32x, 16x (Depending on how they export)
-Source files .AI and .PSD with the .AI being paths so they are highly editable. .PSD only containing the pixel.png however as I donā€™t primarily use --photoshop
-Price 10-20$, not decided yet
-Possible ā€˜proā€™ pack features such as the unity stuff mentioned above, I do not work with unity myself so setting up the test GUI and such is something I would need to outsource for.

Hope this helps
-C

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Iā€™ve no evidence to back this up other than a gut feel, but I think that your description above of people buying it because they stumble on it and impulse purchase it for future use is a pretty good use case. With that in mind, Iā€™d say that you might make more money at $10 than at $20. $10 is an easy impulse buy, but higher than that might not be.

Iā€™ve snapped up quite a few sub-$10 assets without a clear intention to use them. When something is more than $20 I typically donā€™t buy it unless I happen to have a specific use for it anyway.

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Sounds like a great deal. (multiple weights is a nice touch). I would probably agree with angrypenguinā€™s comments. At $10, for me, it would be a no-brainer. I donā€™t have a use for them, but at $10 it is worth it just to have them on hand. $20, I might buy it, but really it would depend on what I already bought this month, (try to keep my AS purchases at around 100 or less a month). More than likely I would wait till/if it went on sale.

Also, you should look at other places to sell this package as well. While it could definitely be useful for game devs, app devs/web devs/graphic designers would also be a great market for it. (especially if you also put them in a OG template.) :wink:

Looking forward to the finished product.

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Absolutely, great idea. At any of the price points youā€™ve mentioned it sounds like better value than a lot of stuff available at stock image and similar sites.