Halls Hopper
Posts: 60
Joined: Friday, 17th December 2010, 02:30
Saturday, 29th June 2013, 17:07
Monsterglyph in Tiles - aka 'new font for the game'
So I was thinking;
Since I like playing both tiles and console version,
(I usually have both .exe in the same directory, to be able to save and continue playing the other version, though I got
some problems getting this with .13-trunk running atm. (sometimes it crashes on startup).)
How about combining both and have a nice Font for Crawl, so I was searching trough my old stuff and threw some letters on a sheet of paper: (Luckily I still had a bottle of ink.)
As you can see I'am barely literate /sarcasm - it looks bad.
And 4mm was the biggest quill I could find.
Thinknig of was I was going for I first thought of Fraktur:
But I guess most people will have some trouble with the upper case letters.
So there is the Rotunda:
So why not a mix of both of them.
This brings us back to the first picture,
someone would have to draw this letters and as you can see I am not very qualified.
Other thing is Tiles are sqare and most letters tend to get vertical.
But I think it's still manageable.
Then there would be the matter of them blending in.
One could just give them a black bg and be done, whitch will mess up the look.
Colored letters on transparent bg also don't sound so appealing,
because thinking of fighting an orc wizard in water don't sounds so good for the eyes.
Maybe a toggle function between the actual montster and the letter, the letter could even keep it's polearm equipped if people think they missing something.
toggle: normal view - letter instead of monster - letter on black bg
This is an very old idea I got when tiles become more and more popular.
As you can see there are some obstiacal to overcome.
I really have no desire to do some actual work on this!
Hell, even drawing and typing this took me nearly half an afternoon.
But I can imagine that some one might enjoy this.
I found birdfont.org whitch looks fairly easy.
Work to be done as far as I can imagine, and this the most lousy I can phrase that:
Draw nice big letters, scan them in, color 'em and let them replace the monstertile.
Before anybody starts working on this, I'am more interested what people think of this idea and if anybody ever would play it?
Be honest, truth is a bitch!
Since I like playing both tiles and console version,
(I usually have both .exe in the same directory, to be able to save and continue playing the other version, though I got
some problems getting this with .13-trunk running atm. (sometimes it crashes on startup).)
How about combining both and have a nice Font for Crawl, so I was searching trough my old stuff and threw some letters on a sheet of paper: (Luckily I still had a bottle of ink.)
Spoiler: show
As you can see I'am barely literate /sarcasm - it looks bad.
And 4mm was the biggest quill I could find.
Thinknig of was I was going for I first thought of Fraktur:
Spoiler: show
But I guess most people will have some trouble with the upper case letters.
So there is the Rotunda:
Spoiler: show
So why not a mix of both of them.
This brings us back to the first picture,
someone would have to draw this letters and as you can see I am not very qualified.
Other thing is Tiles are sqare and most letters tend to get vertical.
But I think it's still manageable.
Then there would be the matter of them blending in.
One could just give them a black bg and be done, whitch will mess up the look.
Colored letters on transparent bg also don't sound so appealing,
because thinking of fighting an orc wizard in water don't sounds so good for the eyes.
Maybe a toggle function between the actual montster and the letter, the letter could even keep it's polearm equipped if people think they missing something.
toggle: normal view - letter instead of monster - letter on black bg
This is an very old idea I got when tiles become more and more popular.
As you can see there are some obstiacal to overcome.
I really have no desire to do some actual work on this!
Hell, even drawing and typing this took me nearly half an afternoon.
But I can imagine that some one might enjoy this.
I found birdfont.org whitch looks fairly easy.
Work to be done as far as I can imagine, and this the most lousy I can phrase that:
Draw nice big letters, scan them in, color 'em and let them replace the monstertile.
Before anybody starts working on this, I'am more interested what people think of this idea and if anybody ever would play it?
Be honest, truth is a bitch!
Even with TabO alone Tiles player get a feeling of Console.
There is no mouse in crawl;
Hit ?? ingame!
There is no mouse in crawl;
Hit ?? ingame!
