Classic Roguelike Tilesets
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Printed Date: 11 September 2025 at 5:40am
Topic: Classic Roguelike Tilesets
Posted By: DerNachbar
Subject: Classic Roguelike Tilesets
Date Posted: 11 April 2019 at 5:51am
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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:
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! ;) |
Replies:
Posted By: NancyGold
Date Posted: 16 April 2019 at 5:02am
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Obsidian Halls and Classic Dungeon are a bit too detailed compared to other tilesets. They also use more contrast and darker palette. Feels like a completely different style art, made by a different artist. Instant Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde feel
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Posted By: DerNachbar
Date Posted: 18 April 2019 at 2:31am
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Originally posted by snv
Obsidian Halls and Classic Dungeon are a bit too detailed compared to other tilesets. They also use more contrast and darker palette. Feels like a completely different style art, made by a different artist. Instant Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde feel 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: 
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Posted By: DerNachbar
Date Posted: 01 May 2019 at 7:00am
I updated the Classic Dungeon Tileset into a new style (changed perspective and several aspects of the look) and also added some details to break the monotony more (the doors have a wrong perspective atm). I am happy with the new direction and my first experiments applying this style to my Cavern tileset are promising as well. Now I just need to watch and maintain the style for the different settings and work, work, work ;) |
Posted By: NancyGold
Date Posted: 01 May 2019 at 7:41am
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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 |
Posted By: DerNachbar
Date Posted: 01 May 2019 at 8:30am
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Thanks for your feedback!
Yeah, I feel I'm drifting towards a more realistic style, even though I'm deviating from my original plans. The new perspective also gives me more room for wall textures, which outweighs other aspects for me. |
Posted By: DerNachbar
Date Posted: 04 May 2019 at 8:03am
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. |
Posted By: DerNachbar
Date Posted: 24 May 2019 at 8:11am
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Updates on my reworks:
Cavern Tileset 
I added some more Variations that add cave features and variety to the tileset. Snake Temple 
I updated my tealish temple tileset to one that is dedicated to sneks! |
Posted By: DerNachbar
Date Posted: 11 June 2019 at 9:03am
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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 
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Posted By: Greycloak
Date Posted: 06 July 2019 at 12:12pm
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I really like the direction that this work is going in. There's only a few things I would suggest: One would be to make the cavern tiles less grid-like and try to blend those tiles a little more. The clear borders between tiles would bother me. The second would be to work on the perspective of the tiles, particularly the ground tiles of the Snake Temple. The ground tiles appear as if they were being viewed from straight above, which creates a conflict of perspective with the walls.
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Posted By: DerNachbar
Date Posted: 09 July 2019 at 7:05am
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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. |