Them Bones is dead, Long live Them Bones.

Them Bones was ambitious... too ambitious. As new assets, mapping techniques, palettes, and my general competence with Zquest snowballed, the quest became a Sisyphean task of constant revision. Progress came to a crawl as I spent days redrawing hundreds of screens in an attempt to bring them up to snuff. I eventually lost all drive to make the damn thing. It was a big mess of flawed rancid spaghetti, so I tossed it. I capped a few of the more interesting screens, and took note of the ideas that actually worked so I could recycle them, and proceeded to nuke all backups of the quest, save a new base file that preserved all of my custom tilework and palettes.

Now with all of my tools set out in a reasonable and organized manner, I can set out to do it right this time around. The tileset is a heavily modified classic set I like to call "Slanty Classic" mostly just custom edits of base tiles that had accumulated over 8 months of development, all recolored individually to fit a logical color scheme. It also contains a few color-arranged feature tiles from Cambria, some loose tilework from Shane (as well as some pretty cool scrolling clouds from Anthus).