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Thanks!

It's mostly just exploration of screen layouts and placeholder graphics I'm making right now - to have something to evoke mood while we polish the core game loops. And I don't consider myself that good of an artist {/apologetic Canadian}

I was familiar with DFs & love rogue-lites, but it wasn't till I started to do some art research for this project that I discovered the amazing modern ASCII/ANSI developments happening. Both Cogmind and Brogue are particularly striking. You're bringing something fresh and exciting to the world.

Lots of nostalgia in this style, but it's a tricky form... particularly the drastic changes to appearance of details with changing font sizes. Fun to explore a new medium though.

It's an amazing tool, and you've built in enough solid functionality that work arounds can exist in many ways. That's more than most free tools of such a niche interest. So you can be assured that your users are very grateful

Thanks also for the Ctrl-tab trick - hadn't learned that shortcut yet.

Fill is nice, but painting is still hard with RP since there's basically no brushes with variation.

A simple MSpaint style spray paint brush with a small radius (~5x5) and random placement would be really helpful to create organic gradients and textures.

I've been trying to do with with copy/paste, but end up grabbing stuff that looks like background but has something in it and overwrites the target areas between desired paint flecks. I guess I need to make some *.xps specifically with brush textures to copy from, but for now it's been faster to just do it manually by pixel.

Been playing around with RexPaint a lot since I recently discovered it. Eating up all my spare time, haha.

I've been working on concepts and mock ups for a 4X space game. Think StarFlightII meets Trade Wars 2002.

Made the attached before I discovered ASCII Patrol. Aiming for that era of games for the look.

Fond memories of 8 bit and MUDs but didn't have the chops to make anything beyond crappy text adventure games at the time.