Unicode roguelike

Why not have a Unicode roguelike? It'd be the best roguelike ever. Just think of all the stuff you could represent with the dozens of thousands of characters there are. It'd require a large font like Code2000 (which can be obtained for free), and an engine to display these characters in a fixed-width fashion if the font isn't. Or a special terminal emulator. Or a very good Unicode terminal font. I've picked a few examples; just a few, to show you what can be done. Requires a good browser and a good collection of Unicode fonts on your part.

♘ Horse
☹☺☻ Townsfolk
〠 Village idiot
♗ Bishop
♔ King

Ȣ Scarab
༪ Butterfly
ഴ Fly
⧞ Mosquito
⁙ Swarm
ਲ Giant bug
♉ᛝ∝ Other insects
౪ Crab
៚ Chameleon monster
ൠ Frog monster
ɗ Snail
༽ Earthworm
ऽςᴈᴤ Snakes
δ Cobra
༗ Anemona
⍾ Squid
Ѫ Octopus
ᴥ Kraken
Ж Cerberus
Л Mammoth
✈ Monster bird
৫ Ghost
☃ Snowman
ɨ Animated statue
Ϫቓቖቿኝ Devils
☬ Major devil
☿ Succubus
ڜ Muslim terrorist
৬ Fire elemental
Ȝ Wind elemental
⚡ Thunder elemental
ኇ♃≬ℑയതမဗၐᤑ₰ Other monsters (just some examples)

♠♣ᚡϘ Trees
≈♒ʬ Water
♨ Hot springs
ȹ Fountain
ᢆ Slime
☄ Comet
☀☾☁ഹ Landscape
۝۞※ Warp gates
⌘⌬ Magic places
ᛟ Gemstone
☖☗ Runestones
✝ Tomb
Λ Tent
⌂ House
⏏ Gazebo
۩ Temple
♖ Tower
⎆ Tunnel entrance
⍐ Elevator
ʭ Steps
¤ Trap activator
༕ Guillotine
⁌⁍ Missiles
ʘ๏⁐‿⁀ↂ Special effects
☤♥☂☠☢☣☫ Spells
༖ Decoration
⚐ Flag
⇧⇩⇦⇨ Arrows
ఱ Couch
π Table
⅄ Fireplace
⌹ Cupboard
⌚ Clock
ƿ Harp
░▒▓█─┃┊┐┝┷╚╜╭╮╯╰╱╳╻╿▛ Walls (just some examples)

¢⦄ Bows
ᛠᛡ Wands
ᛙᵠ∫ Staves
Г Orcish weapon
↑ Pike
† Sword
ᛘ Trident
‣ Nail
ፅ Fruit
ȸ Grapes
ↀ Pill
࿈♟ Potions
¬ Key
࿄ Bell
⌛ Hourglass
Ƣ Monocle
ϙ Hand mirror
౧ Bracers
ᴑØЮ Rings
⚓ Pendant
ƔɣɤƱʊ४ Necklaces
Ψψᴪ Goblets, Grails, Phials
Ѧ Triforce
♕ Crown
❦♓☥☯࿂࿃࿋ᛯᛨ⎈◉ Other items (just some examples)

Comments.

I've always wanted to do one with Chinese characters. The best part is that they're naturally square.

>>41
But they are all exactly the same. How would you tell a wall and a bear apart?
>>37
EXPERT THREAD NECROMANCER

If you're going to use Unicode characters, you would have to make a custom terminal.
Then, you might as well use actual sprites.
Then, you might as well use colour sprites and a tileset.
Then, you might as well make the game pixel-based instead of tile-based.
Then, you might as well add another dimension.

>>42
－－－－－－
｜。熊。。｜
｜。。。。｜
－－－。－－
　　　你
　　　＃＃＃

>>43
It would appear your terminal emulator sucks. Please move your ASCII faggotry out of the way, you're standing in the way of the future.

>>43
You could just use a terminal emulator that supports Unicode characters. I know there aren't many, but I'm sure you could find at least one.

>>43,46
Konsole comes to mind.

Wait, they still have terminals that don't support arbitrary charsets?  You linux guys are hilarious.

>>48
No, they don't. That was in reference to the Windows terminal.

>>45
Using ASCII means having to be more creative with the limitations you have. This leads to better program design in general, along with clever (maybe new) ideas which often create other clever ideas. Also, Unicode means you're spoilt for choice on stupid things like which glyphs to use for necklaces and goblets.

necrobumping

Use MS Gothic, it's already monospaced.

>>52
Or something not shit.

Hmm. I like the idea of doing a kanji rougelike as a way to learn them

[m]
----GRASSLANDU-----
草草草草草草草草草草草草草草草草草草火
草草草草草草草草草草草草草草草草草火火
草草草草石石石石石草草草草草草草草草火
草草草草石石石石石草草草草草草草草草火
草草石石石石石石石石石草草草草草火火火
草草草草石石石石石草石草草草草草草草火
草草草草草石石石石草草草草草草草草草草
草草草草草草草草石草草草草草草草草火火
草草草草草草石石石草草草草草草草草草火
草草豚草草草草草草草草草草草草草火草火
草草草草草草草草草草草草草草草草草火火
[m]

>>54

Brush fire?

>>54
None of those look like grass

☹☺☻ Townsfolk
Is there no sad nigger icon?

>>57
* sad African American

>>57
back to /b/, please.

        around blacks
☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☹☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻
        don't relax!

>>57
The Unicode Consortium only believes in happy negroes.

>>60-61
Back to /b/, please.

>>62
Fuck off, ``faggot''.

>>60
It looks like those blacks are around you.

>>55

It's a grassland, with some fire, yeah.

And rocks. And a pig.

<-- check em dubz