REXPaint is offered as a powerful yet user-friendly ASCII art editor.

Use a wide variety of tools to create ANSI block/line art, roguelike mockups and maps, UI layouts, and other game development needs. Originally REXPaint was an in-house dev tool used by Grid Sage Games for traditional roguelike development. But no it has been made available to other developers and artists free of charge.

While core functionality and tons of features already exist in REXPaint, occasional updates are known to happen. Unlock your retro potential and have some fun with REXPaint - we did.

REXPaint Features:

Edit characters, foreground, and background colors separately

Draw shapes and text

Copy/cut/paste areas

Undo/redo changes

Preview effects simply by hovering the cursor over the canvas

Palette manipulation

Image-wide color tweaking and palette swaps

True-color RGB/HSV/hex color picker

Create multi-layered images

Zooming: Scale an image by changing the font size on the fly

Custom fonts and support for extended characters and tilesets

Browse art assets and begin editing at the press of a button

Images highly compressed

Export PNGs for use in other programs or on the web

Export .ANS files for ANSI art

Other exportable formats: TXT, CSV, XML, XPM, BBCode, C:DDA

Import .TXT files

Skinnable interface

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