Tileset
Revision as of 07:10, 25 February 2012 by Flaming Corpse (talk) (tiles are not obsolete, just the use of external tilesets. Update article to give an overview of integrated tilesets.)
A tileset is a set of graphical tiles used in roguelikes to substitute the regular ASCII graphics, creating a GUI. It works by defining a set graphical tile for every symbol and object in the game. Graphical tilesets are often beneficial to new roguelike players who are not accustomed to the usual graphics-free style roguelikes are presented in.
Since Crawl 0.4, tiles have been integrated into the official releases: select "tiles version" or the unified installer.
