People should make their own tilesets in level making

[DennisKainz]

It gets annoying to see the same tilesets used over and over in level making. I think people should create their own tilesets.
There are tablets that let you draw by hand. That makes tileset making way easier. Also, it isn't hard to draw a good tileset. Nick Stadler and Agama gave us many examples of simple yet good tilesets. And they didn't have tablets for drawing. If they managed to make those tilesets with a mouse, we should be able to make even better tilesets with a tablet for drawing.
For example, in making a level like Fishing Village, instead of recoloring Nick's Jungle tileset, we could draw an actual fishing village, you know, with docks, boats, fishing nets, fisheries. We could look up a fishing village on Google Images so we get a hint of what a fishing village looks like. We could even add some fantasy element to make it even more appealing.
If I could afford a tablet for drawing, I'd get to work immediately.

[Seren]

Nick Stadler and Agama gave us many examples of simple yet good tilesets. And they didn't have tablets for drawing.

Agama used a tablet for portions of her tilesets. But that's probably less relevant than the fact both of those people are professional artists.

[Violet CLM]

The barrier to making levels should be lower, not higher.

[FawFul]

If it were so simple to draw these good looking tilesets, it wouldn't be only done by professional artists that have a lot of talent and dedication. Drawing a tileset and making levels are two seperate professions, and so is scripting. We should be grateful for levelmakers already re-inventing leveldesign with all the extra time and effort spent in compositing level theme's by compiling new tilesets and and writing levelscripts.

[PurpleJazz]

If someone would pay me a salary to make JJ2 levels full time as a profession, then I'm sure I'd take the time to draw my own tilesets from scratch. However, as that's almost certainly never going to happen, I have to make do with the free time I have available outside of my regular day job.

Realistically speaking, it would take me at least a couple of months of solid work to draw an original tileset that is on par with Nick Stadler/Agama's tilesets. My free time is limited as it is, and if every level took me months to produce then I probably wouldn't be finishing very many at all. I actually enjoy the challenge of taking old tilesets and finding new ways to use them.

Of course I'm all for people creating new tilesets, but I don't believe we should gatekeep people who are happy to make use of the plethora of existing sets out there right now.