Re: Suggestions for a square font?

Krice wrote: 
Alexin wrote:

The problem, however, is that there don't seem to be any free (or
really, any at all) monospaced square (16x16, 24x24, 32x32; that sort
of thing) fonts on the internet.



Why they need to be a square? (didn't read your message that closely:)
If you need something square you might consider tiles. I mean, why
people use fonts these days when almost(?) all computers can show
graphics? Back in old days computers didn't have other than text
mode displays, so it made sense to make the game in text mode..
Plus, when you use graphics tiles you can get rid of the limitations
of ascii.


Because text symbols are extraoridnarily easy to distinguish from each other. I, also, when I get around to actually coding my Dream Roguelike (tm) (rather than just writing design docs of a few game aspects) will go for blitted characters to a "bitmap canvas" (To Even Purer Purists: I know this defeats remote playing capabilities. That does not disturb me).
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