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Development => Programming => Topic started by: Etinarg on July 20, 2010, 09:48:31 AM

Title: Symbol for a key?
Post by: Etinarg on July 20, 2010, 09:48:31 AM

I haven't played any roguelikes yet, that included keys, so I want to ask: What is the common symbol used for a key?

Title: Re: Symbol for a key?
Post by: Bear on July 20, 2010, 04:57:43 PM

In nethack they're a blue left-paren.  I dunno if I like that, though. 

Title: Re: Symbol for a key?
Post by: Nolithius on July 20, 2010, 07:44:01 PM

The Male symbol, ASCII charcode 12 on DOS tilesets might work, it kind of looks like a skeleton key.

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Title: Re: Symbol for a key?
Post by: Etinarg on July 20, 2010, 09:09:42 PM

At the moment I have decided for a yellow " aka gold key. It seems my display system has no access to the extended ASCII symbols. So I can't use code 12.

Thanks for the advice :)

Title: Re: Symbol for a key?
Post by: Z on July 21, 2010, 10:54:18 AM

ADOM uses ] for keys and other tools. It even looks kind of like a key. But I don't think it really matters that much, probably everyone will find enough differences in graphical representations and keypresses that this one little thing does not matter.

Title: Re: Symbol for a key?
Post by: Etinarg on July 21, 2010, 11:30:43 AM

Ok. I juts thought I'm going to ask, since almost all my roguelike experience comes from uLarn, Moria and Angband, and none of these had keys. So I didn't know if the might exist a common symbol in other roguelikes.
 
I think I'll start with kind of a table of available symbols and the items that I want to have, and then see what will fit into one group and then gets the same symbol.

Title: Re: Symbol for a key?
Post by: Krice on July 22, 2010, 07:19:51 AM

Tools in Nethack are (.

" is a universal symbol for grass.