And so on.Īnd when you add new assets, you still add some kind of burden to the design. Special case messages on unusual events: Assets. Different types of terrain and traps: those are assets. The procedural world generator: that's an asset.
The distinction I tend to make when talking about any kind of art fidelity type of thing(whether it's roguelikes or pixel art or lowpoly styles) is that you might not have art, but you still have assets. Too much of the latter and the game feels soulless and aimless. Too much of the former and the game feels repetitive and predictable. Good roguelikes have a good mix of human-made "scripted" elements integrated in randomly generated worlds. Meanwhile generating interesting levels and tweaking the Random Number God to make the game interesting and challenging without making it unfairly difficult is pretty tricky. You don't have to worry about having to create new models, new textures, new shaders, new sound effects etc. Want to make a lava pit? Display a red "~". You want to add a new species of trolls who can fly to your game? Just implement the logic and associate a "T" character or whatever. I think it's one of the reason roguelikes are often so deep gameplay-wise. Even those who actually use pixel art tend to have rather primitive sprites, including popular roguelike-likes like FTL or Rimworld. After all most old-school roguelikes work fine with ASCII symbols so there's no real "art" involved besides arguably the shape of rooms and maybe the colors used. ) is more comprehensive and includes both of those resources.įor roguelikes IMO the "make or break" part is the world generation and gameplay balance.
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There are some good free roguelike tilesets on (Dawnlike is great. That said, Chris Hildenbrand's tutorials ( ) have been popular among the HN crowd.
If art is a bottleneck, make a good game without art and then partner with an artist. Most roguelikes are hobbyist projects, or at least started as hobbyist projects, and the point of this talk is to foster hobbyist development. I also understand that on HN games are mostly viewed as commercial opportunities, but if you're asking about basic pixel and game art concepts your art will probably not sell your game. Mechanics are also much harder than they appear on the surface, and art, once you're well practiced, is usually pretty straight forward in comparison to programming or game design. I understand that this isn't the current mainstream view of the genre, but its a great approach to making a game by yourself if you don't have much experience with art. One of the major selling points of making a traditional (ascii) roguelike is that development is all mechanics and programming.
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