Minimalistic tileset

Malcolm · 2013-09-25T07:39:53.000Z

I had an idea to make a minimalistic tileset. What do you think this job is worth doing?

StopSignal · 2013-09-25T09:44:31.000Z

It looks so cool! ASCII fans will like it, consider continuing it!

Zireael · 2013-09-25T11:02:53.000Z

I like this too!

kevin.granade · 2013-09-25T13:47:21.000Z

Nice, what’s the pixel count on that?

Malcolm · 2013-09-25T14:24:49.000Z

11х11

Iosyn · 2013-09-25T14:31:08.000Z

StopSignal:

It looks so cool! ASCII fans will like it, consider continuing it!

Ayep.

I generally don’t like tilesets, but this looks pretty good.

kevin.granade · 2013-09-25T14:53:55.000Z

Malcolm:

11х11

YES! The main thing keeping me from using tilesets is that it restricts my field of view when playing, will be keeping a close eye on this indeed

Malcolm · 2013-09-25T15:16:47.000Z

Kevin Granade:

[quote=“Malcolm, post:5, topic:3220”]11х11

YES! The main thing keeping me from using tilesets is that it restricts my field of view when playing, will be keeping a close eye on this indeed :)[/quote]Yes, I also do not like it. And that is not enough contrasting tilesets. But in ASCII, if the symbols are not square, it distorts the world. And if the symbols are square, the text looks bad. So I decided to make this tileset.

Thanks for the feedback! I understood that the idea is good. I would do.

John_Candlebury · 2013-09-25T18:14:38.000Z

Really like the windows and walls, but perhaps it will be better to leave the character as an @

Malcolm · 2013-09-25T18:27:41.000Z

John Candlebury:

Really like the windows and walls, but perhaps it will be better to leave the character as an @

I was planning to repaint all units symbolic, but recognizable. But it is possible and I will do a version with ASCII symbols

Zireael · 2013-09-25T18:58:44.000Z

Kevin Granade:

[quote=“Malcolm, post:5, topic:3220”]11х11

YES! The main thing keeping me from using tilesets is that it restricts my field of view when playing, will be keeping a close eye on this indeed :)[/quote]

Pretty much my main gripe with the tilesets.

dwarfkoala · 2013-09-25T22:15:29.000Z

Whoa! Looks sweet! I’m going to watch this intently.

nadia911 · 2013-09-25T23:57:08.000Z

Great!!

jcannon98188 · 2013-09-26T07:21:49.000Z

Malcolm:

[quote=“John Candlebury, post:9, topic:3220”]Really like the windows and walls, but perhaps it will be better to leave the character as an @

I was planning to repaint all units symbolic, but recognizable. But it is possible and I will do a version with ASCII symbols[/quote]

I like the idea of a “graphical” ascii character idea. Kind of like what LazyCat did on his knockoff. Other then that, this looks very nice, well done.

qude · 2013-09-26T12:14:32.000Z

cool and smart! but @ looks better.

Malcolm · 2013-09-26T12:31:41.000Z

qude:

cool and smart! but @ looks better.

Hmm… Ok, and monsters you want see in ASCII to? Z - is zombies, w - is wolf etc? I want paint all monster…

FunsizeNinja123 · 2013-09-26T12:47:18.000Z

I want a tileset but with monsters as letters…

An0n3 · 2013-09-26T14:04:04.000Z

I actually like the player sprite like that. If you did each monster similarly, but kept them loyal to their ascii colors I think it would be a happy medium between a tileset and pure ascii.

+1 godpseed

Malcolm · 2013-09-26T14:15:32.000Z

[quote=“An0n3, post:18, topic:3220”]I actually like the player sprite like that. If you did each monster similarly, but kept them loyal to their ascii colors I think it would be a happy medium between a tileset and pure ascii.

+1 godpseed[/quote]

Yes! That’s right and I’m going to do!

CIB · 2013-09-26T14:53:30.000Z

An0n3:

I actually like the player sprite like that. If you did each monster similarly, but kept them loyal to their ascii colors I think it would be a happy medium between a tileset and pure ascii.

I support that notion.

By the way, it wouldn’t be too hard to code a system where you just drop in a square font for the tiles, and a non-square font for the text. Much less work than creating an entire new tileset with fonts instead of tiles. So that’s why a minimalistic tileset, but still a tileset, makes more sense IMO.