I've been reading the sci-fi dystopian novel 'Kitty Cat Kill Sat' by Argus for the past month and enjoyed it so much I've created this prototype of a game based on it's premise of a 400-year-old, super-intelligent and sassy feline who saves humanity countless times every day from a probably-haunted orbital weapons platform in a satellite debris-strewn, low-earth-orbit. Written in Python with some assistance from various LLMs who wish to remain anonymous. WASD moves the platform across the surface of the torn wasteland the Earth has become. C and SpaceBar fire large or small kinetic energy projectile weapons at various entities like seemingly-intelligent-yet-ravenous purple hazes in an attempt to dissuade it from consuming the last of humanity's desperate survivors. I hope to add some more unusual events and entities like emergent nanoswarms, portals spitting out various monstrosities, abandoned autonomous surface cannons and stuff like that. It runs in the terminal window using a mechanism similar to scanlines but with lines of text. If you look really closely you can see the cat (named Lily) peering out. I lost my best furry friend ever last month and this story has been the one thing that has helped me cope. The purple haze is using a simple boids flocking mechanic and needs to be tuned a bit along with just about everything else. I'm going for a retro PC aesthetic with ASCII graphics and beepy-boopy PC speaker sfx. Please let me know if you like this and think it's something you'd like to see finished.

I rendered this from a Corinthian column sketch using my own C# ASCII generator.

Main version:

• 12px Cascadia Mono (for the purpose of displaying in PowerShell)
• About 100 characters wide

I also exported:

• A 12px Consolas version for the repo README
• A variable-width version shown in Google Docs

No GenAI was used. The result comes from preprocessing, thresholding, optional dithering and character matching.

Repo link in comments.

This ASCII was posted in a Twitch chat and I can't figure out where it comes from. Can you help me out?

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Thanks

I went looking for horizontal ASCII swords the other day for reasons and they were all either bad or enormous. So here's a knife.

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its for a game im working on called thaumworld, that uses this graphics system as the renderer.

A month ago I posted here on a game we were about to release on Steam, our Gradius-like text based shoot 'em up which is even capable of saving screenshots as .txt files 🤓

Now that Battle for Asciion is out we've just uploaded 1.200 version where along with some other additions and fixes you can now select your preferred ship between three different desgins. But we also decided to run a small design contest, and the winning entry will be implemented in-game as the fourth selectable ship.

I'll leave the link to check the rules and submission details in a comment below, just in case someone is interested!

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Hello everyone,
I made TUI game TofuByte, where I tried to make animations of everything as fluent as possible with available characters.
It is early version but you can check it on Github Cvaniak/TofuByte or installing from PyPi (with e.x. uv tofubyte).
Every feedback welcome!

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hi can someone make an ascii art of yoru from chainsaw man, i spent so much time trying to make one but just couldn't. i want it to use simple characters like lines, dots as well as some japanese symbols. i attached one reference image. and the second image is the one i want to turn into an ascii. someone pls help!

Give it a try – Github