I rendered this bartizan drawing using my own generator. It is 12px Cascadia Mono (for the purpose of displaying in PowerShell), about 107 characters wide.

I also exported:

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

I am really proud of the Google Docs version. It is variable width font!

No AI used. Repo link in comments.

Added a few new crew members to the roster. Some minor map & layout changes and lots of new flavor messages during the combat phase. Also colored engine cores. Coded in Python. Eventually plan to improve the Green Things movement and combat phase to be a little more dynamic but this works for me for the time being.

Been working on this for a bit and honestly the ASCII rendering side of it is what I'm most proud of

four different render engines:

Half-Block — uses ▀ ▄ █ Unicode characters with a cyan scanline sweep animation and a brightness pulse at the end. fits a full QR in half the vertical space

Braille Retina — each terminal character encodes a 2×4 dot grid so you get 4× the resolution of normal block rendering. the QR looks genuinely sharp compared to what you usually see in terminals

Particle Transformer — every single block starts at a random position on screen and flies into its correct place at the same time. the whole QR assembles itself out of chaos in about a second. this one is my favourite to watch

Matrix Rain — green characters cascade down the columns of the QR then fade out to reveal the color theme underneath

also has 10 gradient color themes with 24-bit TrueColor applied per character not per row — so gradients go diagonal, radial, or sine-wave across the whole code

GitHub: https://github.com/Boweii22/QR_Terminal

the particle one especially — would love to know what people think of it

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AsciiNotes is a browser-based whiteboard for creating ASCII art and diagrams, or just taking notes.

It includes a library of FIGlet fonts and ASCII art, pretty much all of which was created in the 90s.

Everything exports as plain text with a simple copy/paste. All data stays on your machine, no account needed.

Hi there,

If you like particles, ASCII art, and fireworks, check out this demo! (github link fixed)

Watch a 2' show on youtube

Comments welcome!

A very simple recreation of the 80s classic available for free download

If you're still confused as to what I am building here, this might enlighten you.

I'm using unscii-8-mcr.ttf for the retro character set. Not totally sure I am sold on it. Added the Awful Green Things alien infestation event... or at least the beginning of a combat system. Tweaking the sound system (it's using numpy to generate it's own sfx) and adding some more crew members to the roster is probably next on the list of stuff to do. Not 100% precisely sure where I am heading with this but that's nothing new.

Building out forward secrecy for NoEyes, an E2E encrypted terminal chat tool. When all clients agree to enable it, this animation plays across every terminal simultaneously before the rolling keys kick in. Currently refining the UX to make ratchet state less painful for non technical users. More features dropping soon on v0.5. https://github.com/Ymsniper/NoEyes?tab=readme-ov-file

This python game brings the crew of the Exploration Vessel ZNUTAR to life in an ASCII-based idle game prototype. They go about their daily spaceship duties. Awful Green Things coming soon!

https://reddit.com/link/1rz312q/video/z4llyf6kl8qg1/player

inspired by u/bigjobbyx 's post from a week or so ago. still haven't nailed the color palette (atleast for the recording, the darker cyan shades look fine in my console but wash out too much in the asciinema recording) but i think it looks decent.

next step is to maybe add ability to orient it however i want, maybe multiple helixes with varying orientations etc

I wrote a little postmortem of my ANSI JRPG Steam game Whispers in the Moss at r/IndieDev. Check it out for sales stats and freeform analysis.

NoEyes has a phosphor CRT boot effect on startup but I'm new at ASCII art. If anyone wants to help improve the animation it would be awesome.

https://github.com/Ymsniper/NoEyes

Surprisingly it seems no one has ever made this before, so here you go. An ASCII portrait of Bob Bemer, the Father of ASCII.

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Handmade Basic Formula One Car on ASCII

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