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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

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.

25/10/26, 3:07 pm0 reposts1 like

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.