in the first picture above), everything you see in the game is from a tileset. Tilesets are the basic graphical "unit" for DF. So, all that said, there are three basic components to the DF interface: If you want to make DF look different from the default ASCII interface, you're going to have to fire up Notepad. There is no Options screen with little checkboxes or sliders. The other thing to note about DF is that changing the graphics requires editing text files.
Here's a section of one of my old forts, using the default graphics for the game: And within those constraints, there's a lot of variation. Even under the best of all possible circumstances, it's still going to look like an 8-bit NES game with a larger color palette.īut some of the most fun I ever had playing video games was playing 8-bit NES games, so if I can make the game look like that, I'm golden. Which means (among other things) that if you cannot abide the lack of hi-res graphics in your games, you're (probably) never going to enjoy looking at DF. Because the game supports sprite graphics, and several clever and creative people have put together different graphical sets and tilesets for the game, and you can change the look of DF around to suit your personal aesthetics. And I could have probably played DF in straight ASCII and enjoyed it while not being able to do so with Nethack. Now, in my ever humble but always accurate opinion, DF's pure ASCII interface is actually pretty creative, and is a lot more "intuitive" than the Nethack ASCII interface. I know there are Nethack purists out there who consider graphical tilesets for Nethack to be the rankest of heresy, but for me it makes the game playable. It wasn't until I realized that someone had put together a graphical interface for the game that I finally downloaded it and gave it a shot. It sounded like a great game that I would absolutely love to play, but I just couldn't be arsed to learn the pure ASCII interface. I was aware of Nethack for over a decade before I ever bothered playing it. Thanks for your time, and enjoy.Reading through some old Dwarf Fortress threads, I ran across several posts from folks who were interested in the game, but were very put off by the graphics. Hopefully, all credit for this makes it where it's due. I understand such muted tones aren't everyone's cup of tea, so I'll include the Grim Fortress palette, modified from Lee's Natural Color Scheme, both of which I've enjoyed for many hours. Lastly, I called upon my drab New England sensibility to throw together a new color palette. I swapped out some of the specialty tiles for my own creations, fancied up the font ever so slightly, and recreated the dwarf tiles to resemble those poor fools of Grim Fortress. I used Lowright's low-opacity fill technique on certain ground tiles to wash out some of the contrast and improve readability. This set is mainly based on Anikki's 20x20 tileset, which in turn is based off the work of Tocky and Plac1d. The only downside for me was its 12x12 size, so I set out to scale it up to 20x20. I've always liked simple tilesets that beautify and clarify the ASCII look, and I think the gold standard of that is Lowright's wonderful Grim Fortress. Just wanted to share with you all my first tileset and give a little back to the community that I've gotten so much from.
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