Huge fan of your work Taffer…
Thank you kindly! It brings a smile to my face, knowing I haven't toiled and obsessed in vain. I'll be fixing up my work more after I'm done with my Revised update, although when that will be done I won't speculate.
…was curious if you'd thought about doing engraved (obscured) walls in the style that (I think) Phoebus/Ironhand does it, with squiggles inside the hollow walls? Makes for a cleaning viewing experience than the standard blocky white situation. Otherwise no complaints from me, your sets are the only way I've played for years.
…are you a wizard? Nobody's ever before asked that to my recollection, and now's the first time I'm making one that I feel good enough about to finish. I'll preview my next tileset after such a nice message. This is still very early stages and I can be very obsessive about tilesets, so take this with a big pinch of salt. I dislike previewing my random experiments and I've barely started polishing this one. I'm damn proud so far, though (perhaps not of the font itself, but you'll see).
I'm making an arabic inspired tileset. I felt inspired after watching a video about the Alhambra. One of the best parts of an arabic inspired tileset is that I can include random little dots everywhere and have it be a theme of the tileset, bringing things much closer to a "graphical" tileset without sacrificing ASCII purity. Of course readability will suffer, but having little dots around the punctuation marks (for example) will (ideally) make sense in context of the font.
The patterned walls and added noise to the punctuation really fills in the walls and the floors, and I'm pleasantly surprised by how great I think the ground looks.
Showing off the fortifications, mostly: probably the best fortifications of any of my new diagonal tilesets.
Wouldn't be an arabic inspired tileset without an attempt at nice geometric patterns. This is probably my first tileset that makes me
want to build huge, solid chunks of wall. Also an opportunity to remind everyone of how well the new diagonal walls look (for all of my sets).
This one's mostly included because of the # grates: IMO it looks great in this shot. This is probably one of the weakest elements in my current tilesets, so it's one of the tiles I'll be fixing in all my tilesets after the Revised update.
And finally, the biggest reason why this won't be done anytime soon. While
serviceable and (IMO) vaguely arabic, it hardly looks like calligraphy. Heavy works need to be done and I'm not sure how to proceed here. Make letters ornate and don't worry about making it look too much like calligraphy? Make it look like calligraphy yet still somehow be readable? Who knows. Honestly, the rest of my tileset had an existing bitmap font as their basis (and I drew the missing letters from the set), but I haven't found a single arabic inspired bitmap tileset anywhere. I looked. Hell, I didn't even find much arabic bitmap fonts, let alone the fancy arabic inspired look I'm going for.
Hope that interests you? It'll only come as a diagonal wall set and there's no way in hell I'm redrawing it in 20x20, so people will have to settle for a blocky doubled version of the 10x10 tileset.
EDIT: I've
improved on the font.