There's two other cool engines with a software renderer that support colored lighting: http://super8.qbism.com/ http://super8.qbism.com/ https://github.com/le

There's two other cool engines with a software renderer that support colored lighting: http://super8.qbism.com/ http://super8.qbism.com/ https://github.com/leilei-/Engoo https://github.com/leilei-/Engoo Both are Q1 though. However, the gray-ish/brown-ish look is entirely dependent on the color palette that you chose to use in your game. You have 256 colors to choose from, and with the 256x320 colormap, you get 64 shades of each.