Given there's been a lot of support for the idea of a contest based around a fixed set of sprites, I think I'll use this as an opportunity to work on my own art skills. I haven't done that much in Inkscape recently, so I need the practice. While my game library is being upgraded I think I'll try another little side project and make a cartoony styled general game tileset as an exercise.

Since I'm doing this for the art pratice I don't have a particular game in mind, although I'll probably end up using it for something. However without a specific game in mind I'm open for suggestions on what to do. I'm leaning towards a sort of fantasy RPG style tileset with a slight perspective (similar to PlanetCute), as has a lot of scope for extensions and could easily be adapted for a wide variety of games. But I'm open to other ideas, such as a platformer tile set.