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DUNGEON.mode : roguelike-inspired textmode font / tileset

A topic by datagoblin created Mar 27, 2025 Views: 206 Replies: 4

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https://datagoblin.itch.io/dungeonmode

DUNGEON.mode is retro textmode font/tileset inspired by old-school roguelikes and dungeon crawlers. Free and CC0!

It's packed with hundreds of glyphs for composing scenes and illustrations, in a typeface designed to invoke the look & feel of retro terminal fonts, but with a fantasy dungeon crawler spin to it.

The font comes in two variants:

dungeon-437 : DOS-like code page 437 compliant

dungeon-mode : textmode-focused chars & tiles

FEATURES:

8x8 pixels
256 glyphs per variant
full extended ASCII support

FORMATS:

.png bitmap textures
.ttf font + inverted variant
Playscii .char font & example scene
REXPaint .xt font & example scene

EXAMPLES:

Magicsofa128 days ago

Frickin' beautiful... the mockups really sell it too. Although I really don't like the CRT effect on the project page, to me it takes away from appreciating the font itself and doesn't look consistent with other parts of the page.

datagoblin128 days ago

Hm, I see what you mean. I've been developing this CRT shader alongside the font, so I guess I got used to seeing these scenes through the filter, but I do see how it might be distracting when the focus of the page should be the font.

Do you think a transition gif showing the scenes both with and without the effect would work better? Something like this:

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:3mvae5lbs4seeds4g355muhm/post/3lkvjybqzvs2j

(Sorry for the social media link, all I have is an mp4 of the transition and I can't seem to embed it here)

In any case, thank you for your comment! I hope you enjoy the font!

Magicsofa128 days ago

Hmm... honestly that makes it seem even more like the CRT filter is the focus. It's really not a big deal since the description side is "unfiltered" and besides being written in the font itself, includes a mockup as well (selectable, neat!). I was thinking more along the lines of just including at least some of the plain example images as seen here

datagoblin128 days ago

Oh, yeah, I wanted to make that little mockup selectable so that people unfamiliar with textmode would have a tactile example of what it is.

Butregardless, I do think you have a point. I'll swap some of the screenshots for the unfiltered version later today.

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback!