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@axiomverge.bsky.social Did you ever try using non-square tiles? Please, talk me out of it.

I think I made a Mockup and didn't like it. But I could see it working. Like in text games where the tiles are oblong. Different sized tiles (especially 12x12 and 10x10) also look pretty good to me.

I'm playing around with wide tiles (19x16) to more closely simulate the 5:4 aspect ratio games would have been given when drawn to a CRT. Actually feels pretty good when upscaled, takes up more screen real estate without extending the playfield.

Why 19 and not 20? That way you could do grills/grids/meshes more evenly

I honestly don't remember haha. I had come up with that months ago and came back to it later. But I was thinking the same since I replied :D

Now I'm wondering how 15x12 looks