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So separately from what I've been sharing gifs from, @aratinga and I have been tinkering with making a game about hanging out on a cute commercial boulevard and befriending all the shop owners. The last two days I started doing mockups for it! We're thinking that a really chunky low-res pixel style might be really charming for a game like this, tho I'm worried about rendering text like this #towngame

A city street viewed from the side with a simple old-school very-low-res pixel style. The buildings are all made out of brick because it's the only type of building I've drawn yet. The tops of trees can be seen in the background.

Jul 21, 2023, 04:27 AM··Web

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**clarity flowers** @clarity · Jul 21, 2023 *

Jul 21, 2023 *

clarity flowers @clarity

this palette is very cute but 16 colors might be a little -too- chunky where 32 might give me more room to make things softer & cuter

**clarity flowers** @clarity · Jul 21, 2023 *

Jul 21, 2023 *

clarity flowers @clarity

this is the vibe I'm gonna be trying to capture.... i love twee little shops. #towngame

Hawthorne Avenue in Portland, Orgeon. Some of the shops are: "Rice Cafe Korean Fusion", "Fried Egg I'm in Love", and "Frog & Snail". All the stores have different paint jobs .

**clarity flowers** @clarity · Jul 25, 2023 *

Jul 25, 2023 *

clarity flowers @clarity

twee shops twee shops twee shops #towngame

more chunky pixel art. several twee little storefronts, each painted different colors and with different types of windows. the canopies have illegible nonsense text written on them. a telephone pole covered in posters. bike racks. an outdoor table.

**clarity flowers** @clarity · Jul 25, 2023 *

Jul 25, 2023 *

clarity flowers @clarity

not sure if I want to go with nonsense shapes for storefront writing or to make a mostly-illegible font that we can render actual text in #towngame

Alphabet and example sentences for a very tiny mostly-illegible pixel font. Many letters are completely identical, for example: "a", "c", "e", "n, "o", "u", "v", and "x" are all rendered as a 2-by-2 square.

**clarity flowers** @clarity · Jul 25, 2023 *

Jul 25, 2023 *

clarity flowers @clarity

also thinking about how small I can possibly make the dialog text while still having it be legible. I don't think this qualifies but maybe it's... close??? Having more colors definitely expands your options but the lowercase e is eternally the problem letter for pixel fonts... #towngame

Alphabet and example sentences for a two-color pixel font. The characters are 5 pixels tall (plus 2 below for descenders) and 2-4 pixels wide. The "e"s are pretty janky.

**clarity flowers** @clarity · Jul 27, 2023 *

Jul 27, 2023 *

clarity flowers @clarity

just gonna keep copying real buildings in town until I have a big enough repertoire of design patterns. I really like this building, the brick columns charm me. #towngame

chunky low-res pixel art of a town. there's now a new 2-story brick building with inset doorways

**clarity flowers** @clarity · Jul 27, 2023 *

Jul 27, 2023 *

clarity flowers @clarity

If there's upstairs apartments it makes sense to have an entry for that :) #towngame

The brick building now has a small entryway for the apartments on the second floor. It features an arched window above.

**Malcolm Casey** @nonpienary@kolektiva.social · Jul 28, 2023

Jul 28, 2023

Malcolm Casey @nonpienary@kolektiva.social

@clarity It’s looking pretty good! No idea how accessible it is, and I’d probably have to see some text I don’t already know written in it to really tell how readable it is, but that lowercase e looks nice to me!