Arcade-ish Proportional character set

[Joefish]

Yolanda Panda.
The aim of the game is to grow Coriander and Oleander on your Verandah.
Out to stop you are Salamanders from Rwanda. Who get upset if you Slander their Commander.

[arkannoyed]

That’ll do now children, thank you!!

[Joefish]

Yes, I'm already getting tired of this Curséd Ursid!

[arkannoyed]

After lots of tinkering, I've set upon a decent encoding format that can be used for both scrolling and printing text. To overcome a few of the spacing issues, I've made a few special characters (glyphs I suppose) by combining some of the character pairs. Anyway, hopefully its not too jerky, but heres a GIF recording of some example text scrolling;



The scroller routine is just 73 bytes

[Ast A. Moore]

Looks smooth enough to me. I’d increase the space by at least one pixel. Depending on the slant of some of the letters, the spacing between words look a bit on the tight side.

[arkannoyed]

Adjusting space now sir! I've added an extra pixel to the space width



Pause on (c) message now implemented too. Better?

[Ast A. Moore]

Better, but use a single space after a period.

[Joefish]

I like that a lot.

[arkannoyed]

Simon Mann just said 'Pandamonium' on TMS!! (BBC Cricket) Haha!!!

[R-Tape]

Simon Mann just said 'Pandamonium' on TMS!! (BBC Cricket) Haha!!!

I like to think the TMS team are Specchums (and the rotters at SKY are not).

[arkannoyed]

Its just that SKY seem to have all the cash to get to televise it unfortunately. I bet they owned a BBC model B with a disk drive back in the day. Expensive and boring!!

I reckon Jeremy Coney or Aggers might be secret Miner Willy fans anyway.

[PQR]

[mention]arkannoyed[/mention] This looks pretty nice! It appears that the descenders (the extenders below the baseline such as in p) are three pixels tall whereas the ascenders (the extenders above the x-height such as in l) are only two pixels tall.

You are now compensating this difference by making the bowls in shapes such as b or d 1 pixel lower than the x-height. You can see this in the bo combination for example. As a result the p looks quite a lot bigger than d.

Perhaps it can be nice to try to make the x-height in all glyphs more consistent, and adjust the ascender/descender dimensions.

[arkannoyed]

I can't take credit for designing this Character Set fully, as its based heavily upon one called Grape Soda. However I have made quite a few changes. The look is supposed to be a bit uneven and all over the place, though I have tidied up some characters to make them work better. There is of course the possibility to add many many more character designs, so some of the letters could have variations. I'm working on improving the print routine and hoping that it can share a few parts with the scroller to reduce the size further.

[arkannoyed]

Stuff does stuff now. I'm enjoying the freedom of not being restricted by size constraints

[arkannoyed]

I just encoded a different Character set, which although perhaps looks little taller for some of the characters, is actually smaller in bytes terms.

Some aspects I like more, others not so much. The even scruffier appearance is more what I was after in the first place.

[Ast A. Moore]

I think I like it better than your original font. Good job!

[arkannoyed]

I think I like it better than your original font. Good job!

Phew!