Love your style a lot! I'm gonna use this; but I have a question...
I'm using unity and I'm wondering what would be the best workflow while making a game with this? playscii is great in its simplicity with 1 bit tilesets but you don't have a way to export a level data and objects into unity, REXPaint seems to be the same, so... What do you recommend?
Thanks!
Hey! Textmode is kind of niche but when done "properly" can both look very nice and be rather easy to work with. The way I see it, as I'm not aware of an actual textmode-compatible game engine editor existing, there's two options to implement textmode assets in a game:
-Either create a custom system or editor to interpret and manipulate textmode assets, create levels and objects and export the necessary data (which would allow for more creative freedom and ease of use, at the cost of having to make the editor "engine" yourself), or
-Improvise! I used LDtk with custom, pre-made tilesets (basically, copies of the "main" textmode tileset with several different color combinations) to make some nice looking results! It's more limited in the sense of available colors and creative freedom, and the duplicated tilesets can be a bit cumbersome to navigate, but allows the use of a really good, easy to use game-focused tile-based editor :)
Also, I'd definitely research the game-making aspect of Playscii, as it's intended to be a python-based game development tool. I'm certain it can export useful game data in at least *some* way, but it's always been outside of my scope of expertise so I can't provide much useful info on that.
Thanks a lot, Mr!
I see I could even put an entire level with each layer in a different png and import that into unity and slice the tiles, paste the level like that... not the most elegant way but I can add the object layer later inside Unity... well, it's a way. I'm gonna explore those other different approaches.
Thanks for your time, I'd be sure to show you what I'll make with all this in a near future, your assets are awesome, see you around!
