You may have noticed a theme among my recent releases, so why not take a winter vacation to Honolulu with Hale!
The base tropic houses, particularly those in OpenGFX always seemed a little lacking to me, mostly because there are so few of them, but also because the style didn't really fit with the types of games I wanted to play on tropical maps. I've also wanted to draw houses inspired by the various neighborhoods around Honolulu every time I've visited. This past week I finally decided to act on these two feelings and drew a simple set to replace the base set tropic houses as a static grf.
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Hale is (currently) 8 houses, 3 apartment building, and one temple/church to replace the equivalent existing sprite in the base set. The sprites are drawn by myself, and each is inspired by a real building or buildings somewhere in Honolulu, mostly Downtown, Mo'ili'ili, and Kahala thus far. This version of this GRF is intended to function as a static grf, so you can use it multiplayer games that use tropic maps with no Newgrfs loaded.
What Hale is not:
This version of the GRF does not add any new buildings or other features to the game, it only replaces sprites to give your games a bit more Aloha. The current version does not replace the tropic office buildings, nor does it yet replace the arctic offices that also get reused in tropic, though both of these are planned for later. There is generally no intent to replace temperate sprites with the static grf version of this set.
What Hale might be in the future:
In addition to replacing those aforementioned office buildings, I would like to make a separate full town/house set Newgrf as an outgrowth of this to allow for greater variety of houses and architectural eras/styles. The small set of base tropic houses is very limiting, as most of the building need to look plausible from the 19th through 21st Century at least - a period that saw rapid change and development of building styles and types in Hawaii. 1880s bluestone shophouses in Chinatown, 1970s Waikiki hotels, and 2010s high-rise condos are all conceivable styles to add that just can't fit within the framework of the base set houses
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