GamingOnLinux

ASCII-based traditional roguelike 'Rangedrifter' has such a damn cool style

I love discovering new games, especially they they look as fascinating as the roguelike Rangedrifter. What caught my eye here ...

This 3D ASCII Cyberpunk City Should Absolutely Be Turned Into a Full Game

Like many art forms, especially digital ones, ASCII art began as an exercise of working within limitations. It involved using the limited, fixed-width ASCII character set to create recognizable images ...
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Walk through a 3D cyberpunk city built purely from ASCII characters — a text-based metropolis runs on a 283KB Rust WebAssembly engine feeding a WebGL renderer

Solo developer Grow Now! Games has put a playable browser build of its walkable ASCII cyberpunk city online, powered by a ...
Ars Technica

ASCII art + permadeath: The history of roguelike games

I learned to read by playing Rogue. Some of my first reading words were things like quaff, emu, and mace. A capital letter T was the scariest letter. I skipped to Zangband 2.4 and played it a tonne in ...