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Other Roguelikes => DiabloRL => Topic started by: Psojed on October 25, 2012, 15:09

Title: Game Icon
Post by: Psojed on October 25, 2012, 15:09
When I was young I had a website devoted to Diablo 1 and 2 where I wanted to have lots of information, but as time passed by I abandoned that website.
One thing I used as a decorative .gif was a red rotating circled pentagram.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/48388389/Pentac/pentac.gif)

Well and yesterday I was cleaning my HDD a little and found a copy of that website, so I thought this might be a proper icon for DiabloRL. I prepared several versions of that icon.
Here is how they look in mspaint:

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/48388389/Pentac/pentac.PNG)

And here when you put them onto default windows XP background using performance setting:

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/48388389/Pentac/pentac_desktop.PNG)

Here are the icon files.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/48388389/Pentac/pentac.ico
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/48388389/Pentac/pentac_orig.ico
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/48388389/Pentac/pentac_orig_black.ico
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/48388389/Pentac/pentac_orig_round_black.ico

Inside the ICO files, there are pictures at 16x16, 32x32, 48x48 and 64x64 sizes, created as 32bit versions and 8bit versions.
I'm no artist, probably someone can create a better icon. Anyway, there it is :)
Title: Re: Game Icon
Post by: you on October 25, 2012, 15:12
I think this icon is missing this font (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exocet_(typeface))
Title: Re: Game Icon
Post by: Psojed on October 26, 2012, 01:43
I actually tried Exocet, it is too stretched out. The font I used was Bookman Old Style, both are size 12 and Bold.

(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/48388389/Pentac/pentac_exocet.PNG)

As you can see, Bookman still has some room, you can increase the text size up to 15, but with Exocet, 12 is your maximal size for 64x64.