My Kyodai Tilesets
New stuff: Redid some of the files to make them smaller. Created a new set, FlowersByKat.
I have been playing Mahjongg on the computer for as long as I've owned computers, but a few years ago I stumbled across what I think is the best Mahjongg game ever. Way best. By far. It's called Kyodai, and is the creation of Naoki Haga (alias René-Gilles Deberdt).
Why do I love Kyodai? It's shareware, for one thing, with a fully functional trial version that has no time limit, and the cost of registration is not high. It's got beautiful 3D graphics, pretty music, and plenty of variety. It loads quickly and works well with most systems.
But what I like best is that nearly everything about it can be customized. Including tilesets, which are easy to create!
Some of my own tilesets are listed here. Click on the thumbnail to see the full image ~ and please be patient, because I have loaded them in full resolution, in case anyone was interested in using one. You'll see a dragon of some kind on each set ~ that's just my little "trademark".
If you like any of them, feel free to take them ~ just right-click on the image and save it to your hard drive in your Kyodai "Tilesets" folder.
If you don't have Kyodai yet, what are you waiting for? Get it! At the bottom of this page are some links, and the very first one is the Kyodai home page. The other links are pages like this one (only better), with all sorts of Kyodai stuff. Check them out!
In case you aren't familiar with Kyodai and want a peek at what these tilesets look like, I made a screencap of the Fruits Basket set while in play. It's small, but it'll give you the idea!
Animated shows
One of my very favorite animes was Rurouni Kenshin, so naturally, when I started making tilesets, I made one for the Kenshingumi. I still get a giggle out of Saitoh being one of the flowers. Which reminds me, the flowers and seasons in this set are labeled with an F and an S on the tiles.
For a long time, I didn't make any new tilesets, but when I saw Fruits Basket, I had too much fun with the characters not to want to make a set to enjoy them with. The flowers and seasons in this set are labeled with an F and an S on the tiles.
So many pretty men... naturally, Gundam Wing was a natural for me to make a tileset about! Because there are so many characters, I had to narrow it down, and I opted for sticking to the pilots (including Zechs). After all, they're the ones I most like to look at. The flowers and seasons are labeled on this set, too. (Thanks, Sher, for finding all the images I used in this tileset.)
Animated men
This was my first tileset, and a personal one, including as many of the animated men of my personal harem as I could. I'm not sure it would be of interest to anyone else, and, in fact, my harem has changed a lot since I created this, so I have to make a new one. But I have a sentimental attachment to this one. The flowers are Aragorn and Legolas, and the seasons are Odie Colognie.
I like some of the characters in my harem so much, I had to create tilesets just for them! Spike Spiegel of Cowboy Bebop is #1, and this was my second tileset. The flowers and seasons are two sets of four identical tiles, so there is no need to worry about them.
#2 in my harem is Seijuro Hiko of Rurouni Kenshin. It was hard to find images for him, so I'll eventually get some screencaps and make this one better. The flowers and seasons in this set are labeled with an F and an S on the tiles.
#3 in my harem is Duo Maxwell. Soooo cute! Thanks to Sher, whose gallery provided the images for this tileset, I was able to come up with a varied collection for him. The flowers and seasons are sets of identical tiles.
#4 in my harem is Shigure Sohma from Fruits Basket. The flowers and seasons are sets of identical tiles. And I did include some of Shigure in his dog form!
Football
While cruising the Web, I discovered a site that had nice gifs of the NFL logos, and I just had to create a tileset that's a tribute to my autumn habit. The flowers of this set are NFL logos (rather than logos of the individual teams), and the seasons are the Gatorade bucket, a goal post, the SuperBowl logo, and the Houston Texans logo (they weren't yet a team when I created this).
A little riff on the NFL tileset. I have a crush on Jon Gruden, who was coach of the Raiders at the time I made this. It's identical to the tileset above except that the seasons are images of Jon.
Flowers
The tilesets I've seen so far that feature flowers have not appealed to me. So I made my own! Many different kinds are featured, but heavy on my personal favorites. The seasons and flowers are marked with an S or F, and that's all that really distinguishes them, so you have to watch out for that.
Links
The Official Kyodai Mahjongg Website
These are all places I've visited and found things I wanted to download
My Kyodai:Unofficial web site by EnemySkies
Mugwump Dillard's Kyodai Mahjongg Tilesets
Absolute Monica: Tilesets for Kyodai Mahjong
Atomic Dragon's Realm of Useless Stuff: Kyodai Tile Sets
Dragonfare ~ my collective