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If you've downloaded tiles prior to the release of Glass 2.0, you may notice the archives have been regrouped. Go ahead and re-download them, even some of the older tilesets have been enhanced to support the Show Names feature of Glass 2.0

All tiles marked in the High Color set require at least a screen color depth of at least 16-bit High Color or higher (sometimes listed as 65,536 colors) to display properly. The 16-color sets are playable with a color depth of 256 (or even 16!) colors. If you are unsure if your current setup can display the high color sets, try playing the Glass Block set built into Glass. If it looks ok, download the others.

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'Installing' the Tilesets:
When you try to load a tileset from the tileset browser in Glass, Glass first looks to see if there is a folder inside the program's folder called Tilesets. So for best results, you should create that folder and unzip the files into it. However, as long as you know where you unzip them, they can be anywhere--just press the 'Change Tileset Directory' button and go to wherever you stored the files.

Standard Tilesets

These five tilesets come built into Glass and do not need to be downloaded. They are shown here only as a sample for the benefit of someone who has not yet downloaded the game.

Image: a simple, blocky tileset Simple
A very basic tileset. Big, bright and easy to see.
Image: a simple tileset with the initials of their colors in big letters Trainer
This tileset is one of a few available that are actually playable by the colorblind! The letters on the tiles indicate the colors and the smaller letters under the secondary colors indicate which primary colors make up each color. A good set to play if you're not used to the physics of color.
Image: a tileset that looks like hammered glass Glass Block (High Color)
A decorative, uneven glass surface. This is what the Simple set wishes it looked like.
Image: Panes of stained glass Stained Glass (High Color)
The game's namesake tileset.
Image: Squares of color that get darker towards the bottom-right corner Wash (High Color)
A simple design but very pleasing to look at in the game.
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Tile Pack #1 - 16 Color

These tiles are made using only the 16 standard windows colors and are guaranteed to display properly on any setup. Please note, however, that the 'standard 16' does not include the color orange. Orange tiles are made of 50% red and 50% yellow (you can see it if you look close.)

Image: A tileset of various colored party balloons balloons
Simple, child-like tileset. Would probably look good against a cloudy sky background.
Image: An assortment of Christmas-y items from a stocking to a lump of coal Christmas Enhanced with picture descriptions
A variety of Christmas-themed items (If you're wondering: the black tile is a lump of coal!).
Image: A tileset consisting of the names of all the colors--but the words themselves are all colored in the wrong color! Confusion Enhanced with completely inaccurate descriptions
A well named tileset. A classic example of "Do as I say, not as I do." The colorblind player would probably have an advantage here.
Image: A tileset showing the tips of wax crayons Crayons
If you're trying to think of things that come in a variety of colors, this is probably the most obvious choice.
Image: A tileset of goofy 'smiley' faces Faces Enhanced with picture descriptions
Eight different colors, eight different expressions. A good one for kids.
Image: A tileset of Egyptian symbols and heiroglyphs Egypt Enhanced with picture descriptions
Egyptian hieroglyphic symbols (and a few other symbols). If you'd like to learn more about Heiroglyphs, try here. This is a really interesting site, as well as the place where I got many of the original source images.
Image: A set of colored filters arranged like a physics diagram Filters Enhanced with picture descriptions
See how the colors of glass filters mix in this physics-inspired tileset.
Image: A Tileset of colored binary numbers 000 through 111 Geek Special Enhanced with picture descriptions
What can I say? If you're a geek, you'll get it. If you're not a geek but know someone who is, ask them and they can explain it to you... just be sure you want to sit through the answer.
Provides a look at the logic behind Glass.
Image: A tileset of unusual shapes Geometric Enhanced with picture descriptions
In this tileset the shapes combine as well as the colors. This is another set playable by the colorblind, but more difficult. Not only do the primary colors combine, but simple shapes 'morph' into strange configurations when blended.
Image: Various familiar characters for the halloween holiday Hallowe'en Enhanced with picture descriptions
A fun little set for halloween, but not too scary.
Image: Colored handprints Handprints-16
A 16-color version of the Handprints set from the Hign Color package.
Image: A variety of different sized hearts Hearts
For Valentine's day, or anytime you could use a little romance...
Image: vertical and horizontal stripes, some of which cross like plaid Plaids & Stripes
They say plaids and stripes don't go together. Well, "they" may not like this set then. Hope you do!
Image: A tileset of various common highway and road signs Road Signs Enhanced with picture descriptions
Learn the rules of the road as you play! Well, not really... and yes, I am aware that interstate signs are not purple. Because as far as I know, no actual road signs are really purple, so for the sake of the game I blended the normal red and blue colors of the standard interstate sign...
Image: multicolored road intersections; some of which are dead ends Roadblock
This tileset makes a crazy map! Don't get lost in a dead-end: concentrate on the colors and find your way!
Image: a colorful collection of sporting equipment Sports Enhanced with picture descriptions
For those rainy days when you're playing computer games because you can't go outside...
Image: Various colored symbols like heart, star, triangle Symbology-16 Enhanced with picture descriptions
A 16-color version of the Symbology set from the Hign Color package.
Image: A variety of toys, from a red house to a green army man to a black 'jack' Toys Enhanced with picture descriptions
Why are there so many child-like tilesets for this game? Maybe it's to get children to play the game and 'accidentally' learn something about colors. Or maybe it's just because children's things often come in the requisite variety of colors, like this assortment of toys.
Image: A tileset of a child's wooden blocks Wooden Blocks Enhanced with picture descriptions
For the toddler of any age. I wish I could argue that this is in some way educational, but all it is is cute.
Image: hollow X's Xs
Xs. Lots of 'em. And they're hollow!

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Tile Pack #2 - High Color

These tiles use a larger variety of colors, providing complex shading, realistic images and 'true' orange. They require that your screen settings be higher than '256 colors' to display properly (if you load them with 256-color depth, Windows will try and 'come close' to the image with the colors it has available--the result is usually not pretty.

Image: A Tileset of bright, raised 'buttons' Button
Raised 'button-style' tiles. Another simple, very colorful set.
Image: A group of colorful sweets Candy Enhanced with picture descriptions
A tileset for your sweet tooth. Enjoy candy from starlight mints to jawbreakers without needing to brush your teeth afterwards.
Image: Egyptian hieroglyphs and symbols Egyptian Enhanced with picture descriptions
An enlarged and recolored version of the Egypt tileset.
Image: Groups of three lights, some filtered with colored lenses Filters II Enhanced with picture descriptions
Like the physics of light example from your high school science book, this set shows three lights overlapping. When red, blue and yellow filters are added the overlapping portions show the secondary colors.
Image: A tileset of variously colored flowers Flowers
Flowers come in a variety of colors--probably there are blue and green flowers somewhere, but I couldn't find any. The green and blue flowers shown here were both originally pink before I started fooling with mother nature...
Image: square, light-colored frames Frames
A simple set, yet somehow eye-twisting when the screen is full of them...
Image: The frames tileset of with letters like the trainer set Frames Trainer Enhanced with picture descriptions
The big blank space in the Frames tileset makes a perfect place for the letters of a trainer set!
Image: A tileset of various fruits Fruit Enhanced with picture descriptions
I will admit that this fruit is not ogranically grown. I tampered with nature to make the green apple greener, the white grapes whiter and the purple grapes purpler.
Image: colored circles that glow from the center Glow Enhanced with picture descriptions
Simple, round tiles.
Image: Colored handprints Handprints
Kid's handprints, dipped in fingerpaint and preserved forever--digitally.
Image: Ice cream cones of many flavors! Ice Cream Enhanced with picture descriptions
The perfect tileset for summer. And, yeah, I know that chocolate isn't exactly 'black', but it's a better flavor of ice cream than 'licorice.'
Image: A group of colorful Jelly Belly brand jelly beans Jelly Belly Enhanced with picture descriptions
The world's most famous jelly bean! If this set makes you hungry, go HERE!
Image: a diagonal squashed hexagon and two triangles form the square. For the secondary colors, the triangles are the primary colors LEDs
These may or may not look like LED's to you. It's a nice set, but sort of abstract; so "LEDs" is as good a name as any!
Image: The LEDs set with Trainer letters LEDs Trainer Enhanced with picture descriptions
The LEDs set: Another nice open space just begging for trainer letters!
Image: Japanese Kanji for color names Nihongo Enhanced with picture descriptions
"Nihongo" translates as "Japan-language" or Japanese. These are the Japanese kanji for the colors (plus you can see the pronounciation for each color using the 'Show Tile Names' feature.) Please note: the symbol on the orange tile actually means 'gold', not orange! The Japanese word for orange is orenji iro. The first part is 'borrowed' from the English so it has no Kanji. Spelled 'phonetically' with symbols called kana, it takes five characters to write. Too much for a tile!
Image: A tileset of various gems Precious Enhanced with picture descriptions
Seven gems, one stone. Ruby, sapphire, amethyst, peridot, citrine, emerald, onyx (set in gold for visibility) & diamond.
Image: A set of light-colored square pyramids seen from above Pyramids
A nice 3D set. Probably the closest to a pastel set you'll see from me.
Image: A tileset of colored 3-D Spheres with varied textures Spheres
3-D rendered shperes in a variety of textures & patterns.
Image: A variation on the Stained Glass tileset Stained Glass II
Based on the Stained Glass set that comes with Glass, this version has small panes of the primary colors around the secondary panes.
Image: A set of colorful symbols such as heart, triangle, inifinty Symbology Enhanced with picture descriptions
One of the most 'see-through' sets (other than the screens). The symbols chosen don't have any special signifigance; but what they remind me most of are the cards people use to prove or disprove ESP.
Image: Shiny silver plates with one colored corner plus trainer letters Steel Trainer Enhanced with picture descriptions
A sleek version of the trainer tileset. Looks very sharp on a light gray background.
Image: Some Windows XP icons XP Enhanced with picture descriptions
The newest version of Windows is well worth the upgrade, and not just for the colorful icons--some of which make up this tileset. (I couldn't find a proper purple among the standard Windows set, but Minesweeper was close. I tinted it a bit more to distinguish it from blue.)
Image: hollow X's on black squares X Marks the Spot
Those bright X's from set one show up even brighter against these shadowy squares.

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Tile Pack #3 - Screens

These High Color sets have had every-other pixel made transparent to allow background graphics to show through. Works good with a photo background, but not a busy picture. Also, works best at 800x600 screen resolution or higher (smaller pixels=finer transparency).

Image: A duplicate of the Buttons tileset above, but half of the pixels are transparent Button Screen
Image: A duplicate of the Glass Block tileset above, but half of the pixels are transparent Glass Block Screen
Image: A duplicate of the Glow tileset above, but half of the pixels are transparent Glow Screen
Image: A duplicate of the Handprints tileset above, but half of the pixels are transparent Handprints Screen
Image: A duplicate of the Pyramids tileset above, but half of the pixels are transparent Pyramids Screen
Image: A duplicate of the Spheres tileset above, but half of the pixels are transparent Spheres Screen
Image: A duplicate of the Stained Glass tileset above, but half of the pixels are transparent Stained Glass Screen
Image: A duplicate of the Wash tileset above, but half of the pixels are transparent Wash Screen

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Tile Pack #4 - Logic-only

These tilesets stress the logic of Glass - the color clues are removed. They are somewhat harder to play.

Image: A purple three-piece puzzle in blue frames Blacklight Puzzle
A three-piece puzzle should be simple... so why isn't this?
Image: A set of binary digits, all grey Geek Basic
The Geek tileset from Tile Pack #1, but with the color removed. Now it's binary position that counts.
Image: A series of green shapes that combine. For example, circle + triangle results in a rounded triangle. Geometric Mono Enhanced with picture descriptions
The Geometric tileset from Tile Pack #1, but all green. Look at the relationships of the shapes, and how they combine to form other shapes.
Image: Various combinations of three different sized, nested boxes Nested Enhanced with picture descriptions
This is very difficult to play; but on the other hand it's very visually appealing! A full game board of this set looks like modern art!
Image: A multi-color three-piece puzzle in white frames Puzzle
Like the Blacklight Puzzle, but with the traditional three colors (but no mixing.) Might make a good transition to the logic sets to play this first then move to the Blacklight version.
Image: A group of ice cream cones with various combinations of chocolate, strawberry and vanilla Scoops (High Color) Enhanced with picture descriptions
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This may look like the Ice Cream set from Tile Pack #2, but look again: 'blue' is now 'chocolate'. And unlike the Ice Cream set, combining flavors doesn't give you a new flavor, it gives you a double-dip cone!
Image: A series of white triangles with colored wedges; like down on a pyrimid with colored sides Triad
At first glance this may look color-based, but there is no blending of colors on the secondary colors. "Orange" has a seperate red and yellow wedge.
Image: A series of black triangles with colored wedges; like down on a pyrimid with colored sides Triad II (High Color)
A High Color version of Triad. This one has a starker contrast between the bright colors and the black background. Beware the special tiles: White, which is the absence of all three color filters in the normal game, is represented by a black triangle here!

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Making Your Own Tilesets

Tilesets are really standard .ICL (Icon Library) files. But to work in Glass, they must have eight 16-color or 256-color icons in this order: Red, Blue, Purple, Yellow, Orange, Green, Black, White.

There are a variety of Shareware and commercial software packages out there that can create icons and bind them into an ICL file. As long as the icons are in the right order, it shouldn't matter what program you use to create them.

If you create a good set, send it to me. I'll make the best ones available to everyone here on the site. Or, if you create the eight icons (or even 8 32x32 .BMPs!) but don't have a program to make them into an ICL file, send them to me and I'll put them together. (No copyrighted images please!)

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To change screen color depth:

From the Windows' Control Panel, choose Display, then switch to the Settings tab. It should be on the left and marked either Color Palette or just Colors. Depending on your version of Windows, you may see '65536 Colors' or 'High Color (16 bit)'. This is the minimum setting for using the high-color tilesets. 'True Color (24 bit)' and 'True Color (32 bit)' will also work (better, in fact, but they use more memory.) If these options are not shown, that color depth may not be available with your monitor or video card at your current resolution.

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