terminal blues

Terminal Blues: A POWDER Tileset in CP437

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

Instructions

Download latest release: 1.1.1 (2020-09-27)

Master: Tileset is contained within ./export.

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. Please do give feedback.
  • protea: The guardian of the long cones (protanopia).
  • deutzia: The guardian of the medium cones (deuteranopia).
  • tritoma: The guardian of the short cones (tritanopia).

Windows, Linux, Mac:

• Create a gfx/ subdirectory inside your POWDER installation, and move the .bmps of the desired variant there. The .bmp files should be directly in gfx/, 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.

Screenshots

Under Siege (Blightbulb font)

The Big B (Extra Minecraft font)

Spelling Reformed (1.1.0)

rEkkkT? (Eclipse font)

Palettes (from left): Blues v1.1b6, Protea v0.07, Deutzia v0.02, Tritoma v0.02

Spell Wheel

Documentation

Full Changelog

Master Sprite Navigation

Quirks

Scripts

Tile List

Contact

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

Credits

• The Terminal Blues tileset is licensed under CC-BY-SA 4.0.
• Base fonts (alphabets):
  • brass and classic 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 and heavy 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.

Footnotes

1. Some items have custom textures for ease of identification. Heresy.