UPSLynx
The Dean of Computer Graphics
2,142 Posts
20 Jun 2009, 6:35am
Quoting FreeC8675
I use tilesets, it just makes the game less "messy" you have an actual dwarf looking thing instead of a weird colored ASCII symbol. That's really the only reason, I am used to ASCII in games like ADOM, it's just that the sheer number of different things represented graphically creates a mishmash of symbols that didn't make sense in my head.
That's always been my thoughts on it. I've played simpler ASCII games myself, years ago admittedly, but when you look at a DF map it's just absolute madness. I think a tileset would in the least allow me to jump into it easier.
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