Cataclysm is not like other roguelikes, it has “sprites”. It’s trying to represent finer resolution graphic than other roguelikes. Beside, just because everyone else is doing it wrong is not a reason to make your own game distorted.
Also square fonts are really up to personal taste, I can't stand square fonts that throw readability out the window, like Topaz-8 or setting the default font to a square size, while others can.
When it comes to reading maybe, but for graphics non-square tiles are simply distorted, which I’d think is quite apparently very wrong. You just got used to it, after 10 minutes you would get used to reading square fonts too. I think 8-bit computers and consoles all used mainly square fonts: Commodore, Spectrum, Amstrad, Nes, Gameboy… maybe Snes and Genesis too. Many square fonts are perfectly readable. It’s all about getting used to, it’s not about squares and rectangles, it’s about the shape of the font in general. You would need time to get used to Helvetica and Times New Roman instead of your usual font as well, square or not square.
All the arguments for square fonts are as compelling as the arguments for rectangular fonts.
Wiki calls it “distorted” and recommends square fonts. What more can I say? If you mean to recommend some settings you should just make it default. And yet it’s not even a proper option, look how many people don’t know about it.[/quote]
Cataclysm doesn’t have sprites; it uses a font, it’s not drawing images from a graphical resource. It’s exactly like other rogue-likes.
And like I said, square vs rectangular is up to preference, you can’t argue this, because I like the rectangular font, hence any point against “its up to preference” is void.
Either way, whatever you want to say about what is “right” or “wrong”, it’s a question of graphics vs readability. One can get used to either of them, like you said. I appreciate the time you took to read my post and understand what I was saying [/sarcasm], but my point still stands, most games use a rectangular font, hence people are used to the rectangular font. There is no reason to replace the rectangular font with a square one and force it on everyone because of your preferences.
But be my guest and implement an option to toggle between square and rectangular fonts in-game, this would be the most productive approach to this problem, much better than trying to impose a way on how people should play.
