Cogmind currently comes with a whopping 26 bitmap fonts. This unusually large number is somewhat less impressive than it seems, as they are certainly not all completely unique styles, but it still took more than a week to draw, scale, and tweak them all to the point of polish sufficient for at least early releases. […]
Most traditional roguelikes are pretty barren, especially those of the subterranean variety where a map is composed of rooms empty except for monsters, items, and a small selection of interactive props or obstacles (e.g. altars, plants, pools of some liquid). This reflects, and highlights, the genre’s focus on tactics and strategy. If an object doesn’t […]
Having recently finished adding 600 pieces of ASCII art to Cogmind, now’s the best time to write a bit about the process used to draw it all. (Read the previous post for a bit more background on ASCII art.) First a disclaimer: I’ve only been drawing ASCII art off and on for about a year, […]
Traditional roguelike aesthetics are all about abstraction. Object representations are distilled to a simple symbolic form, thus it’s no surprise that roguelikes sometimes come paired with ASCII art. Of course this is also often due to practical limitations–the engine/system itself may only be capable of displaying characters–but it’s also stylistically appropriate for art to use […]
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