Hello everybody,

I'd like to share my progress on a bunch of classic roguelike tilesets I am working on. The goal with this project is mostly to learn, but I am thinking about creating an asset store bundle out of it as well (don't care much about how well it sells, but I want to put my best effort in it).

The structure of the tilesets is mostly derived from the famous oryx set ( https://www.oryxdesignlab.com/ ) , but I went with a higher resolution (32x32) and more details / realism than oryx.

I have 3 and a half sets so far and was curious, what you guys have to say and how I can improve them.
The current state is that all floor & wall tiles exist for the first three, while the last one only has floor tiles + basic walls. I plan to include a "details" layer that allows variable objects to be drawn on top of these (torches, debris, etc.).
The creatures on top are not made for these specifically, they are some older sprites of mine that give more context to the scenes.

Issues I ran into so far or that I got feedback on:

• Lack of a coherent style: I tried to establish some kind of coherent design, but failed in some regards. I tried to aim for clean, muted floor tiles and a contrasting wall to allow good readability.


• Perspective: I only divert a little from the straight birdseye view and the wall surfaces have little room to show texture and depth. This seems fine for constructed walls, but it works against more complex surfaces.


• Contrast of relevant floor tiles / staircases.


• Natural surfaces: I don't like my "rock texture" for the cavern set, it looks more like runny loam. I am satisfied with the floor texture for that set, though. This ties into the perspective issues I have.

Here's my work so far in chronological order. Intended viewing size is x3:

Temple Tileset
Bit of aztec influences, supposed to be the home of lizard / snakemen.


Cavern Tileset
Supposed to be a natural, wet cave housing cave / swamp beasts.


Obsidian Halls Tileset
An outlandish set that is supposed to be clean, dead and alien.


Classic Dungeon Tileset
This is supposed to be your classic dungeon with cells and giant rats. Probably the starting area.


I'm looking for feedback on all aspects, hit me! ;)

Yeah, I agree. Maybe this is not really asset production but more of a style finding process.
Stupid me just went ahead and produced all the 20something variants needed for a full tileset for all four Styles...

Guess im going to have to rework 1-2 of them or straight up throw them out and book them under failed experiments.

I made some changes to the Classic Dungeon Tileset and lined them all up nicely in a new image:

The new dungeon walls angle looks more solid, but at the same time they lost that gamey character, the fake/reversed perspective from Zelda and Warcraft 2 had. Guess you can't have everything at once :D

I nearly finished the Cavern tileset in the new style. It still has 1-2 tiling errors and no detail / variation walls yet, but I still wanted to post my progress.

Another Update!

Dungeon Tileset
- Added floor detail tiles
- Reworked Doors


Cavern Tileset
- Added floor detail tiles
- Added Mushroom "light sources"
- Added boulder doors



Snake Temple Tileset
- Added floor detail tiles

Thank you for your feedback.
I have broken up the square shapes of the cavern floor tiles and I agree on the issue with the two clashing perspectives of floor and walls, which is especially pronounced in the snake temple set because of the perfect circles.


I tried to add horizontal shades only to the southern borders of my floor tiles to adjust their perspective subtly, but it created too much of a 3d effect for my liking. I will revisit this approach and also try to squash the circles a bit.