DUNGEON.mode
A downloadable font
DUNGEON.mode is a retro textmode font for the rogue in all of us.
TEXTMODE?
Textmode is an art form where pictures are made out of text characters, often in a purpose-made mono font, like so:
┌♥♡♡─┐┌──┐
│∙∙∙⟏││†3│
│∙☠∙∙││⛨1│
│∙∙@∙││⚱⚱│
│∙∙∙∙││⚷⚷│
└────┘└──┘
┌────────┐
│you take│
│-1♥ dmg!│
└───────▼┘
(try selecting the image above!)
ABOUT THIS PACK
In designing this font, I wanted to capture look & feel of retro terminal typefaces, but with a fantasy dungeon crawler spin to it.
To that end, two variants are offered:
- dungeon-437, a fully code page 437 compliant ASCII version, for the DOS purists out there;
- dungeon-mode, a more textmode-ready charset, with a fuller icon-like and tileset-adjacent glyph selection.
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Dungeon Delvers ⋒ Crypt Crawlers † Burrow Burglars ⛑ Dragon Dropkickers ☥ Roadside Robbers ⚇ Goblin Gobblers ⊶ Dungeon Delvers ⋒ Crypt Crawlers † Burrow Burglars ⛑ Dragon Dropkickers ☥ Roadside Robbers ⚇ Goblin Gobblers ⊶
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DETAILS
- 8x8 pixels
- 256 glyphs (per variant)
- full extended ASCII support
INCLUDES
- .png bitmap textures
- .ttf font + inverted variant
- Playscii .char font & example scene
- REXPaint .xt font & example scene
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Download
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I love this font so much, so useful. I used it for the text and icons in my GBCompo25 entry: https://avivbeeri.itch.io/scoundrel-gb
It’s really cool to see it running on real hardware too!
Oh hell yes, this rules! Glad you enjoyed using DUNGEON.mode! I love Scoundrel, can't wait to give this version a try!
I'd just advise you to consider upping the contrast on the body text of your page a bit, I find it a bit hard on the eyes as it is!
Thanks for pointing that out! Something must’ve gone wrong with the theming because I usually have better color sense than that! Fixed!
lovely font. what pallete are you using here?
Thank you! The page uses the same colors as the palette included with the Playscii files, in the file `dungeon-pal.png`.
Here's the full palette and a .GPL export:
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GIMP Palette
Channels: RGBA
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0 0 0 255 Untitled
0 43 36 255 Untitled
24 30 42 255 Untitled
84 106 0 255 Untitled
25 17 74 255 Untitled
47 42 76 255 Untitled
68 63 65 255 Untitled
8 66 72 255 Untitled
40 84 72 255 Untitled
82 82 76 255 Untitled
115 97 80 255 Untitled
119 120 91 255 Untitled
94 82 107 255 Untitled
130 91 49 255 Untitled
181 59 89 255 Untitled
255 87 119 255 Untitled
255 185 21 255 Untitled
255 224 119 255 Untitled
67 62 166 255 Untitled
71 114 191 255 Untitled
150 102 238 255 Untitled
87 176 103 255 Untitled
153 215 229 255 Untitled
255 249 228 255 Untitled
gorgeous!
Thank you!
is.. is there a game to go with the screenshots? SO PURDY!
Thank you! Unfortunately, those are just mock-ups to showcase the font, but I'd love to make a full game with this look at some point.
Cool stuff. Love the crt effect in the preview pictures, how'd you do it?
Thanks! The CRT filter is a custom shader I made in Godot. Haven't made it available anywhere yet, but I'll probably post it here on itch once I have time to clean up the code a bit.
That would be great! I'm a Godot dev myself and would love to see how you put it together. I'll definitely keep an eye out if you end up sharing the shader.
Both the font and the CRT effect are amazing, if you can post the shader here on itch it would be super useful! You can even charge for it, it’s really well done! Thank you for your work
This is actually so sick, thanks for making this.
I used this font in my 2D shooter and mentioned you in the credits! Thank you so much <3 — you can check out the game here: https://valgguk.itch.io/alangame
Nice! Glad you like it!
Is this being released under a cc0 License ? or something else ?
Yes, CC0. You can check it under the "more information" section of the project.
Thx
this is great! this would be perfect for my terminal roguelike game
Thanks! Be sure to shoot me a link to the game when it's available!
yeah no i just realised that that wouldn't work since i can't really force people to pick this font
i'd have to make it outside of the terminal and just make it *look* like the terminal
This font will be suitable and perfect for retro games
This project is elegant and innovative
This is neat!!
Epic! Love the idea!
Thank you cr.os!
Oh heck yes!