This is really cool. I'll try it out later. Question: if I submit a movie to the map/movie database site, will it play with these characters there?
No, it won't. I tried it
here. It just displays the standard graphics pack. (it even says I specified the curses pack! it's lying!) (Unless there is a way to specify these things?)
A square tileset might work better, since Japanese characters (which most of those are) are pretty much square to begin with.
I'll make it square, 16 by 16. (Is that a good size?) It will take a few days for that, I got other (real life!!) (non-DF!) stuff I gotta do.
And what's with the reversed/flipped/mirrored Latin letters anyway? I don't remember that in the Matrix.
WELL! Lemme tell ya about that. There are several reasons!
You know how the characters are always flipping around randomly as the code falls from the top of the screen? The following isn't the best picture, but you can tell that some of those characters have dimmer versions of other characters underneath them. And sometimes, a letter will flip itself around a few times before coming to rest in the proper orientation. I was trying to simulate that. (Look closely at the capital A in my tileset.)
Also, do you see those 5s on there? And the 9? They're backwards! So I made some of the numbers backwards like they do in the Matrix, (3 is upside-down, etc.) and then thought, hey, why not do that with some letters, too? So I did.
And thirdly, I was thinking about a story by Issac Asimov where the letter F, (or something), over the eons, has been flipped backwards. So I thought, hey, it's a kind of futuristic thing, cool! I can do that too!
Wow, what a long-winded response. Ah well, I thought I'd share my reasoning.
Overall, this is pretty funny, but the typography/linework could use a bit of correction.
What linework? SPECIFY PLEASE.
Thanks to y'all for the compliments. I had fun making this thing.
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