‘Pokémon’ parody game is rendered entirely within a font
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nme.comPokémon that’s contained entirely within a font.Fontemon is a game which uses the popular open type font format to let players work their way through a simplified, choose your own adventure parody of Pokémon set in the world of Minnesota.Creator Michael Mulet has explained how Fontemon works in a very in-depth post on Github.
The gist of the post is that each press of a key on a keyboard in a program which uses a font causes the font to draw an image on screen.These are known as a Glyphs, and are generally presented as letters, but some fonts such as Windings create images.Michael explains that whereas most fonts have a few ways to draw these glyphs, Opentype has “at least 14 ways to draw glyphs” including “scalable vector graphics”,.
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