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[cephalo]

Is there a specific reason the game uses ASCII rather then them making an icon, even if it is a copy of the ASCII currently used, for each object in the game? Even if they copied the ASCII other set makers could use the hooks to create a full set.

Since the game gets all its graphics info from a single small bitmap, and it would be so easy to extend the existing system to a bitmap large enough to allow for a unique glyph for every object, I would have to say that this is an artistic decision and not a limitation.

You want the focus of the graphics to be on the meaning of them. By providing for unique symbols, it can be argued that you are creating a distraction from that focus. All of a sudden the graphics do matter, when you don't want them to matter.

[Madurjafro]

You guys started off with tilesets?

As soon as I saw the homepage, I was all like "AWWWWWWWWW YEEEEEEAAAAAAH!"
Then proceeded to fail about 5 thousand times.

Anyone got an ASCII tileset that just makes everything square?

[Catastrophic lolcats]

http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Tileset_repository#Tyrving

[puke]

Anyone got an ASCII tileset that just makes everything square?

There is one bundled with the game, but I strongly prefer the Guybrush / Herrbdog set here:  http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Tileset_repository#Guybrush

I use creature graphics with it, but you don't need to.

[Scarpa]

You guys started off with tilesets?

As soon as I saw the homepage, I was all like "AWWWWWWWWW YEEEEEEAAAAAAH!"
Then proceeded to fail about 5 thousand times.

Anyone got an ASCII tileset that just makes everything square?

Yeah I use Dorten 9x9, you can find it in the repository. Some of the graphic sets are cool, and I started with them, but I found being able to display an entire 2x2 embark on the screen at once was better. I'd rather take in more information than have it pretty in a game like this.

[Buttery_Mess]

Tilesets are pretty and all, sometimes it's fun to see a well developed fort looking nice. I actually find tilesets confusing; they don't really help you identify things that well. About the only thing I need to use look for is to spot the difference between a goblin and a guineahen chick.

[Sutremaine]

I always wonder about the goblin / something else comparison. If there's goblin on your map, either it's part of a lone raid, an ambush, or a siege (in which case its presence is loudly announced), or it's an escapee (in which case it will be running for the map edge like a bat out of hell).