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2013-03-21 00:07

Trihook
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roguelike charset

Here's a c= roguelike charset I made.

row 1:
capital letters, most common sentence signs

row 2:
numbers, less common sentence signs, full tile (very useful)

row 3:
brick wall, stone wall, 4x floor tiling, liquid (water, lava) coins, closed and opened chest, scroll, book, key, skeleton key, lockpicks, 16x magic symbol, swirl

row 4:
closed and open door, closed and open portcullis, altar, up and down stairs, 2x lever, knife, sword, 2 handed sword, axe, battleaxe, spear, glaive, trident, staff, club, mace, flail, shortbow, longbow, crossbow, arrow, bolt, dart, shuriken, staff, cheese, pear, meat

row 5:
corpse, blobby, blob, grue, rat, adder, cobra, skeleton, zombie, ghoul, mummy, lich, imp, demon, arch-demon, ghost, reaper, air, fire, ice, earth elementals, goblin, orc, ogre, goblin archer, orc archer, witch, zealot, shaman, centaur, minotaur

row 6:
monkey, gorilla, rabbit, squirell, skunk, chameleon, scorpion, goat, ram, dog, cat, dear, troglodyte, cyclop, gargoyle, harpy, 3 headed, 2 headed, 1 headed hydra, gryphon, dragon, spider, squid, octopus, ninja, knight, man, woman, unlit and lit brazier, box drawing chars

row 7:
tombstone, shovel, pick, buckler, kite shield, tower shield, helm, gauntlet, robe, chainmall, leather armour, plate and full plate armour, boots, amulet, ring, potion, 8x frame drawing chars, 7x box drawing chars

row 8:
letters, dart trap, spike trap, bear trap, mouse trap, 2x box drawing chars

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2013-03-21 16:24

Trihook
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If I was drawing tilesets, and had a disorganized master tileset, I would probably pick the most usefull 256 tiles and post them here while I draw some more. ;)

If anyone needs the tiles feel free to use them, and if you want more, I could upload all I have. If anybody wants to draw some more or help out in any way that would be nice.

Drawing them I noticed that going for a classic rpg view as opposed to pure top down expands the tilset into many interesting ways.

Now seeing the pic from MagerValp, there's even more possibilities. That's some kind of half isometric view. I'm guessing a full isometric or even ultima style isometric is possible. There's also hexagonal permutations with top down and 'isohextric' style.

Thinking about it some more, the monsters could be even used for a side view game.

I think the classic half bird's eye view is a good balance between beauty and a small memory footprint.

2013-03-24 12:44

Trihook
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I made a mockup:

2013-03-24 16:33

MagerValp

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1055

Sweet!

2013-03-24 20:54

enthusi

Registered: May 2004
Posts: 675

This looks very nice. On a TFT at least.
Im a bit sceptical what to make of it from a CRT Monitor.
If you even want to care about that is another topic though.

2013-03-24 22:12

Trihook
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I'm not sure how to simulate a CRT but here's some filtered in scanlines I made in the GIMP.

On a side note, It's supposed to be a game, so gameplay should come before graphics. A crap game with beautifull gfx is still crap, while a good game with bad gfx is still a good game.

2013-03-24 22:46

TWW

Registered: Jul 2009
Posts: 541

I wanted to make a mock up too :-))))

2013-03-24 22:55

Trihook
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Some nice tiles there TWW =)

Here's a Spectrum mockup, tho I could've picked the colors a bit better for sure.

2013-03-25 07:17

MagerValp

Registered: Dec 2001
Posts: 1055

Here's what it looks like in VICE with CRT emulation:

It's not perfect but it's a decent approximation. If anyone wants to run the prg on a real C64, there's an executable here:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/839742/roguelike.prg

2013-03-25 08:29

Trihook
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Thanks MagerValp!

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