Objectives
Main Shop General Objectives:
1. To provide pixel arrangements suitable for signatures and dragon/profile bios
2. To create a “minigame” atmosphere that gives a use to collecting FR items
Affiliates Objectives:
1. To open a parallel shop to keep general order traffic to a manageable level.
2. To offer options that are otherwise not possible at the main shop. This may include animated pixel arrangements, additional environmental effects, long-form creative writing, etc.
3. To keep the pixel assets available on Flight Rising in the event that miirshroom can no longer run the main shop for whatever reason.
Limitations
a)
Affiliates may not create new pixel sprites. New sprites are to be provided solely by miirshroom, as a means of keeping a consistent art style.
i) Miirshroom may keep exclusive use of new sprites for a period of time after their release, before passing them on.
ii) Affiliates will not have access to rainbow star sprites in pixel orders (i.e. cherry trees, lemmings, mantises, starfish)
iii) Adjustments to hue and saturation of the items are permitted - no limits, go wild
iv) The creature sprite silhouettes may be altered as required for animation services or slight pose changes (i.e. sitting vs. standing).
v) Silhouettes of plant items may be sculpted as needed for composition (i.e. swapping matching flowers on the two different stems, trimming the size of mosses and grasses, etc.)
vi) Items may NOT be resized, as this introduces "fuzziness" around the edges, alters colour profiles, and in the case of down-sizing may make patterns unrecognizable.
b)
Affiliates must allow miirshroom to claim the 2nd post of your shop thread. This is in order to post announcements pertaining to the main shop and (unfortunately) as a failsafe to notify potential customers if you are to become unavailable while leaving large quantities of work unfinished.
i) Wait times between order and drop-off should be targeted at 2 weeks average. It is recommended that the shop closes in order to catch up if wait times should become much longer than this.
c)
Affiliates may use their own judgement on the image hosting service that they use. I myself currently use imgur for hosting, with a tumblr gallery as a backup. I would also encourage affiliates to make it clear to customers that image hosting services are susceptible to sudden changes of terms of service or shut-down, and that they should always save a copy of the image and upload it to their own hosting service of choice.
Pixel asset “ownership”:
If miirshroom is to disappear from Flight Rising with no activity or explanation for a period of
one year or more, the above limitations and guidelines become null and void. Affiliates would be free to use the assets and add additional plants and creatures as they wish, as long
as their activities remain based on Flight Rising. The pixel assets created by miirshroom are under no circumstance to be sold or otherwise used in a transfer of real world currency (or cryptocurrency).
Guidelines
a)
Affiliates may use whatever payment scheme they wish (excluding off-site currencies):
i) It is recommended not to lower prices below the amounts typically used in the main shop run by miirshroom. These prices are already heavily discounted from the appropriate value on time and effort in order to encourage item collection as alternate payment (i.e. I charge much less than what is warranted as a fair price for an art commission. Use your judgement on the amount of time you spend on each order and how much that time is worth!)
ii) Affiliates do not need to require items as payment. Decide whether pure treasure/gems or a mix of treasure/gems and items would be appropriate.
iii) It is suggested that payments with items attached are sent through the message centre (i.e. instead of the crossroads). If crossroads are used, payments should be accepted immediately to prevent deletion of items that are in transit.
b)
Inform miirshroom if you have orders sitting in your queue for over 1 month:
i) If you are unable to complete a couple of orders, let me know and I can try to cover for you and complete them myself. However, if this is a repeating occurance, if the number of incomplete orders exceeds 10, or wait time continues significantly past one month, I will restrict your access to new asset sheets and may post an announcement indicating that my support of your shop is withdrawn.
c)
There is no sharing of .psd working files between shops. (i.e. an affiliate can choose to accept a request to animate something made by miirshroom, but it is their responsibility to do this using only the .png image)
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