The Hacklike reimagined in a deep blue terminal aesthetic. Featuring:
- Terrain, monsters and items are entirely within (Code Page 437/Extended ASCII/ ANSI/etc.)^1
- (??? Heresy) Spell icons completely in 14px pixel-art
- Custom fonts: A very red Brass, plus two new fonts: Blightbulb and Eclipse!
- Questionable colourblind support
Latest release: 1.0.1 (2019-09-21)
Latest pre-release: 1.1.0-beta.1 (2020-01-16)
Master: Tileset is contained within export
folder.
Terminal Blues comes with a few variants:
blues
: The regular Terminal Blues experience.true_blues
: The three Guardians of the True Blue, who attempt to aid those with colour deficiencies.protea
: The guardian of the long cones, now available for testing.deutzia
: The guardian of the medium cones, extremely in need of testing.tridude
: The guardian of the short cones, patiently awaiting rare testers.
Windows, Linux, Mac:
- Move the
.bmp
s in the desired variant to thegfx/
subdirectory of your POWDER installation. The.bmp
files should be directly ingfx/
, not in a subdirectory thereof. - Optional features: Override in
gfx/
to apply.equipment
: Will display worn equipment on the @ tile.extra_alphabets
(Extra download): Rename desired alphabets to one of the regular alphabet names and override.
- Within POWDER, go to Options > Tiles > From Disk.
- To change the font, head to Options > Fonts.
Nintendo DS:
- Same instructions as above, to the
DATA/POWDER/gfx/
directory on the root of your flash cartridge. - On startup it should report detecting the tileset, and a new menu option should show up.
Gameboy Advance: From Jeff Lait,
The splicebmp program was used to patch a POWDER ROM with these tiles. It is no longer supported. GBA users that want a new tileset need to recompile from scratch.
Other Versions: You'll need to compile the game with this tileset included.
Under Siege (Blightbulb font)
The Big B (Extra Minecraft font)
Mass Mage (Spelling Reformed)
rEkkkT? (Eclipse font)
Palettes: from left to right,
Blues: v1.1b6
Protea: v0.07
Deutzia: v0.02
Tritoma: v0.02
Whether for feedback or for a simple Internet hug, these are the available methods of arcane communication:
- Post an issue on GitHub
- The Roguelikes Discord, at
#powder
- My cult 👀, at
#slither-dither
- The
Terminal Blues
tileset is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0. - Base fonts (alphabets):
brass
andclassic
were derived by Markus Maier from the window's (sic) console font, licensed under CC-BY 3.0.shadow
was created by Markus Maier, licensed under CC-BY 3.0.light
andheavy
were created by PropFeds, and are unlicensed.
- Extra fonts (alphabets): Credit goes to their respective designers.
cheepicus
was created by Cheepicus.ibm_cga_thin
was created by IBM.minecraft
was created by JD Graphics.msx
was derived by Zaratustra from the MSX computers.textmachine_handwriting
was created by Polyducks, licensed under CSL. Link
- Scripts:
table_persistence
was created by Gerhard Roethlin, licensed under MIT.- Every other script is unlicensed.