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Characters, items and overworld map icons from "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons" by Mattel Electronics (1982) for the Intellivision Home Video Game Console system, later re-released as "Advanced Dungeons and Dragons: Cloudy Mountain."
One of my two favorite Intellivision games, with the otherbeing "Tron Deadly Discs" (1982).
Keymap:
A–D Adventurer Right #1–4
E–F Bat #1–2
G–H Spider Right #1–2
I–J Rat Right #1–2
K–L Demon #1–2
M–N Snake Right #1–2
O–P Dragon Right #1–2
Q–R Winged Dragon Right #1–2
S–V Arrows #1–4
W–X Blob #1–2
Y–Z Death Cloud #1–2
a–d Adventurer Left #1–4
e–f Spider Left #1–2
g–h Rat Left #1–2
i–j Snake Left #1–2
k–l Dragon Left #1–2
m–n Winged Dragon Left #1–2
o Quiver
p Ladder
q Boat
r Axe
s Key
t Crown Left Half
u Crown Right Half
v Crown Complete
w Rat Droppings
x Demon Tracks
y Animal Skull
1 Overworld Map - House/Start
2 Overworld Map - Mountains
3–4 Overworld Map - Forest #1–2
5–7 Overworld Map - River #1–3
8 Overworld Map - Vertical Fence
9 Overworld Map - Vertical Gate
0 Overworld Map - Horizontal Fence
- Overworld Map - Horizontal Gate
! Overworld Map - Three-Member Party
@ Overworld Map - Two-Member Party
# Overworld Map - One-Member Party
$ Overworld Map - Using Boat
% Overworld Map - Using Axe
^ Overworld Map - Using Key
& Overworld Map - Crown (End Game)
* Overworld Map - Cloudy Mountain
( Overworld Map - Cloudy Mountain Snow Peak
[ Overworld Map - Cloudy Mountain Cloud #1
] Overworld Map - Cloudy Mountain Cloud #2
\ Overworld Map - Cloudy Mountain Cloud #3
Used on character profiles and for puzzles in the Professor Layton games (up until Miracle Mask where all of the pixel fonts were replaced with the switch to 3D).
Made this after finding that the regular font was slightly different when I was making a mock-up of the character profiles. It’s as close as I could make it with the references I could find!
Reconstruction of the blocky font from Professor Layton and the Curious Village used for character profiles. Had to improvise for the X glyph because I couldn’t find any examples to go off of, as well as punctuation beyond the colon.
For profile recreations, the word profile is blank and uncoloured, but the number and character’s name are all coloured in white.
Update: I found a Q glyph reference and updated it accordingly! Still nothing for an X glyph, however...
Montfauçon is a serif pixel font recreation of the original main font from the PC graphic adventure Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars, also used in the sequel Broken Sword II: The Smoking Mirror.
The character set of Montfauçon includes a vast array of additional diacritic variants and bonus characters. Every character that doesn't pop up in the game has been designed to match the look and feel of the base characters.
I recommend to use this one with font sizes that are multiple of 17pt and avoid any font smoothing or anti aliasing methods.
~ Montfauçon by Caveras - a font recreation based on the original font from the PC game Broken Sword: The Shadow of the Templars, developed by Revolution Software and released by Virgin Interactive in 1996. ~
This blackletter-style monospace pixel font is a recreation of the original main font from in the SNES action game ActRaiser 2.
The character set of Tanzra includes a vast array of additional diacritic variants, numbers, bonus characters, unique glyphs, and also full sets of the Japanese hiragana and katakana alphabets and other Asian glyphs from the original Japanese version of the game. Every character that doesn't pop up in the game has been designed to match the look and feel of the base characters.
I recommend to use this one with font sizes that are multiple of 15pt and avoid any font smoothing or anti aliasing methods.
~ Tanzra by Caveras - a font recreation based on the original font from the SNES game ActRaiser 2, developed by Quintet and released by Enix in 1993. ~
Main text font used in Star Wars: X-Wing, (C) 1993 LucastArts Entertainment Company, and Star Wars: TIE Fighter, (C) 1994 LucasArts Entertainment Company, as well as on the main menu screen for Agents (players) and Missions (game levels) for Star Wars: Dark Forces, (C) 1995 LucastArts Entertainment Company.
Font used in the DOS versions of "Star Trek: 25th Anniversary," (C) 1992 (Diskette)/1994 (CD-ROM), Interplay Productions. The Cursor Block for the Save and Load screens is located in the # position. Spacing is based on the actual in-game text as opposed to the opening title screen. Note that the black outlines surrounding the colored interior font are not present in this recreation.
For the extended version, please see the excellent recreation by @Patrick H. Lauke (redux):
Crang is a proportional sans-serif pixel font recreation based on the original main display font appearing in the video game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, developed by Tribute Games and released on various platforms by Dotemu in 2022.
The character set of this font was greatly expanded with countless additional special characters, diacritic variants, in-game icons, numbers, buttons, and lots of unique glyphs, each one of them designed to match the spirit and style of the original font design.
The base font size and recommended setting for Crang is 25pt and multiples of that. Use metric kerning and no additional smoothing effects for the ultimate pixel experience.
This font is free for non-commercial use! If you wish to obtain a commercial license for one of my fonts, please visit my web site https://caveras.net and contact me.
Crang font Copyright © Caveras.
All rights to the original font designs belong to their respective creators.
A faithful recreation of the condensed font used on most menus from the FunOrb turn-based strategy game Arcanists. It was also used in a few menus in RuneScape before 2013.
Credits to WolfieMario for porting the original font.
This is a clone of RuneScape Friends ListBig Apple 3PM is a proportional sans-serif pixel font recreation based on the original main text font appearing in the video game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, developed by Tribute Games and released on various platforms by Dotemu in 2022.
The character set of this font was greatly expanded with countless additional special characters, diacritic variants, the smaller in-game UI numbers, and lots of unique glyphs, each one of them designed to match the spirit and style of the original font design.
The base font size and recommended setting for Big Apple 3PM is 17pt and multiples of that. Use metric kerning and no additional smoothing effects for the ultimate pixel experience.
This font is free for non-commercial use! If you wish to obtain a commercial license for one of my fonts, please visit my web site https://caveras.net and contact me.
Big Apple 3PM font Copyright © Caveras.
All rights to the original font designs belong to their respective creators.
A Pokemon HeartGold-SoulSilver Full-Length Font Sheet Found from Spriters Resource.
Credit goes to Nintendo & HAL.
No Japanese Support because it's too hard.
Request me some Glyphs to add in the comments, if you want.
(8/16/23) - Attempted to Replicate Numbers from Gale of Darkness
Official font of "NINJA-KID 2" by UPL.
This is a clone of Silpheed Super DogfighterFont used for the credits, copy protection screen, help menu, and restore game screen for Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact, (C) 1989, 1990 Game Arts Co, Ltd / (C) 1990 Sierra On-Line, Inc. (The DOS start-up screen also states that this game is alternately titled 'Thexder II Firehawk'.) As with many Japanese games, the period (.) is set above the baseline; it has been lowered here, but the original can be found in the More Latin section. The Block character is located in the @ position.
Font used for the start menu, in-game menus, character interactions, and on-screen displays for Fire Hawk: Thexder - The Second Contact, (C) 1989, 1990 Game Arts Co, Ltd / (C) 1990 Sierra On-Line, Inc. (The DOS start-up screen also states that this game is alternately titled as 'Thexder II Firehawk'.) Letter J* and modified B N P by Goatmeal. Original B N P found in the More Latin area, along with the 'digital counter' numerals as a bonus. The Block character is located in the @ position.
* Oddly enough, I couldn't find the letter J used anywhere during my playthough...
Font used for the copy protection and in-game text for Silpheed Super Dogfighter, (C) 1986, 1988 Game Arts Co, Ltd / (C) 1988 Sierra On-Line, Inc. Numerals 3 4 6 7 8 9 by Goatmeal; the only numbers used for bonus value displays in-game are 0 1 2 5. The Block character is located in the @ position.
Monospaced version of the text font used for the introduction, character interactions, and finale of Zeliard, (C) 1987, 1990 Game Arts Co, Ltd / (C) 1990 Sierra On-Line, Inc. Modified q by Goatmeal; the original q is found in the More Latin area.
Proportional version of the text font used for the credits and saved game/restore menu of Zeliard, (C) 1987, 1990 Game Arts Co, Ltd / (C) 1990 Sierra On-Line, Inc. Modified q by Goatmeal; the original q is found in the More Latin area.
In the game, the spacing/kerning between various letter and/or punctuation combinations is highly variable, anywhere from 2-6 pixels. To strike a balance, a standard three-pixel width was chosen for letters and most punctuation; the remaing punctuation glyphs have a 6-pixel width, while the numbers retain their 2-pixel width.
This is a clone of Zeliard - MonospacedRecreation of the smallest size of the bold version of the Hypnospace Outlaw font 'Frontier Town' with some additional characters created by me.
This is a clone of HypnOS Frontier Town SmallInitials used with the non-speech text in King's Quest V: Absence Makes The Heart Go Yonder!, (C) 1990 Sierra On-Line. These letters were not generated using an in-game font; they were actually pre-rendered static images within the game's art assets, used in conjunction with the Sierra text font Font.004. While the letters were centered within the 16x15 sprites, the I and J were changed to proportional spacing for use with other fonts.
To match the two-tone sprites used in the game, this version allows the user to overlay a partial letter or letters in a different color for use in games or picture/image artwork.
Initials used with the non-speech text in King's Quest V: Absence Makes The Heart Go Yonder!, (C) 1990 Sierra On-Line. These letters were not generated using an in-game font; they were actually pre-rendered static images within the game's art assets, used in conjunction with the Sierra text font Font.004. While the letters were centered within the 16x15 sprites, the I and J were changed to proportional spacing for use with other fonts.
Solid outline font used in King's Quest V: Absence Makes The Heart Go Yonder!, (C) 1990 Sierra On-Line. Sierra Resource File Tag: "font.009" and is paired with the Sierra font "font.008".
This font was used for onle single phrase in the game: "A few hours later....." (occurring twice in the floppy disk version, but only once in the CD-ROM version). Oddly enough, instead of using the outline font.009, the opening credits used the font.008 twice for a 'drop-shadow' effect...
And while they may have been intentional choices, there are several instances where the outline designs don't follow the patterns found with the majority of other glyphs (missing pixels, perhaps for legibility?). As such, the following characters:
• J O P Q R S X c j m n p q r s u v z ! ;
...have all been 'corrected' within the main set of glyphs; their original designs can be found in the More Latin section.
This is a clone of Sierra Font 008Font used in King's Quest V: Absence Makes The Heart Go Yonder!, (C) 1990 Sierra On-Line. Sierra Resource File Tag: "font.008" and is paired with the solid outline version of this font, "font.009".
The font was used for the opening credits and for a single phrase during gameplay:
• Instead of using the solid outline version font.009 for the opening credits, a drop-shadow effect was employed (recreated here in my new sample).
• It was used later in the game WITH the solid outline version font.009 for one single phrase: "A few hours later....." (occurring twice in the floppy disk version, but only once in the CD-ROM version).