Fontemon - World's first video game in a font!

Fontemon - World's first video game in a font!



You read that right! It's a video game in a font! A font as in "Time New Roman". The entire game is enclosed in fontemon.otf, no javascript, no html, all font.

Link: www.coderelay.io

How I did it

So, how did I make a video game from a font? To understand the answer, you must first understand fonts.

I imagine the average english speaker thinks a font is something like this:

You type a key (We call this a "Character")
The letter appears on the screen. (We call this a "Glyph")

When rendering everyday english characters, that's pretty much correct. But fonts can do so much more. A lot more. Too much for me to write about in this post, so I'm just going to cover the parts I found to be the most interesting when developing fontemon. If there is a lot of interest in a particular part, I'll dive into more detail in another post.

Link: github.com