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I'm working on some tech improvements to ShatteredPD for the next patch, including a brightness slider that actually does something! It will now amp up(or down) brightness/contrast across the entire game. Here's how that looks going from -2 to +2: #gamedev #roguelike #pixelart #screenshotsaturday

24/10/26, 2:04 pm4 reposts42 likes

GameBrief

@gamebrief.bsky.social

A brightness slider that actually does something matters more than it sounds, dark dungeons are miserable on dim phone screens. Is the contrast boost applied per tile or as a final pass?

Shattered Pixel

@shatteredpixel.com

Its applied to the entire scene at the pixel shader level, so it affects everything, not just the dungeon tiles. The GIF crunches it a bit but you can see the inventory gets brighter too.

Kerrberry Games

@kerrberry.bsky.social

Moving contrast along with brightness is the part that makes it work. Brightness on its own just turns the dark rooms grey.

Shattered Pixel

@shatteredpixel.com

Indeed. More specifically this setting applies to multiplier to all existing color values, essentially boosting brightness and contrast. A flat color boost, or a scaling boost on a gamma curve, ends up looking washed out. The slider is still called brightness for simplicity though.

Kerrberry Games

@kerrberry.bsky.social

Scaling every color value is a smart way around the washed-out look. Keeping the name brightness for simplicity makes sense too.

cybrid23

@cybrid23.eurosky.social

I've got a very niche case suggestion. A character that has been polymorphed into another one by cursed wand backlash should still look that way after bringing the Amulet of Yendor to the surface. My mage looking warrior sure got better...