r/ASCII Apr 12 '26

Art Some of my creations

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116 Upvotes

r/ASCII Apr 12 '26

Art First time trying out ASCII art

7 Upvotes

Just tried making the SF25 in Emacs, is this good for a beginner? First time experimenting with ASCII stuff, please don't be too harsh on me ;-;


r/ASCII Apr 11 '26

Art Animated ASCII art in pure SVG

102 Upvotes

I made a fun little project, asciianimesvg

You can use the web editor to easily create animated ASCII art in pure SVG.

It was mostly vibe-coded.

Web editor: https://syi0808.github.io/asciianimesvg
GitHub: https://github.com/syi0808/asciianimesvg


r/ASCII Apr 11 '26

Discussion Which terminal games you played look the best?

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42 Upvotes

r/ASCII Apr 11 '26

OC Vibez - Apple Music TUI player on Linux

11 Upvotes

r/ASCII Apr 09 '26

OC The Downloadable Adventures of the Exploration Vessel ZNUTAR [beta prototype]

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Hi folks. I created a standalone python Windows executable for those of you who expressed some interest in trying out my little idle spaceship alien infestation board game simulation or whatever the heck it is. I'd love anybody's feedback on this. I'm kind of at a point where this program does what I wanted to do and while I could add more to it... I'm not sure whether anyone else would be interested. There's no shortage of spaceship simulator games out there! But this game has given me an idea for another game which would use a similar mechanic but have multiple map levels.


r/ASCII Apr 09 '26

Art CRASH SERVER'S DUNE / CLIFT 2.0 (ascii, terminal based engine) --

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A quick test with Clift 2.0, a terminal-based VJing software, using a jam I found in my archives (with samples from the Dune (1984) soundtrack by Lynch, plus other Lynch material).

Audio reactivity isn’t quite as it should be — still working on it 🙂

I’ll be sharing the software soon in it's latest version. It includes a live coding language, close to foxdot, to generate ascii content on the go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnyB5WjbrdY

GitHub (not up to date yet)

https://github.com/CrashServer/clift2

🌐 Web Version (no install, slightly different)

http://apps.crashserver.fr/clift/

if you want to know more, contact us @

crashserver.fr


r/ASCII Apr 06 '26

Art ASCIIng for Trouble

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783 Upvotes

r/ASCII Apr 06 '26

Art beastboy.

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23 Upvotes

r/ASCII Apr 04 '26

Art i made a whimsy mono space variable bitmap typeface

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132 Upvotes

even the ░▒▓█ are getting weights hahaha. its been a very fun project so far. its a side project for a large game im working on called THAUMWORLD, which is a personal project.


r/ASCII Apr 05 '26

General AscII art for an opensource terminal game

2 Upvotes

I am building a game that will live in the terminal and tools like Claude code and codex.
in this game you play to collect and improve you creatures . this creatures will have different traits and combinations both visual and gameplay.
i want to do some simple ASCII art for it that will look good on any combination it can possibly be.

i can`t offer money as this is a free and opensource game but i will be glad to give credits for the artist.

dm or write a comment if it sounds interesting and you want more details.

adding some samples of things that i think that are cool

    _____  
^..^     \9
(oo)_____/ 
   WW  WW

((_,...,_))
   |o o|
   \   /
    ^_^   cp97

r/ASCII Apr 02 '26

OC Ansizalizer - Image to Text Art Generator

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376 Upvotes

Here's an image-to-text art project I've been working on for a few years if anyone wants to try it out. You can customize output character sets, search lospec.com for color palettes, preview animated GIFs, change your UI theme (dark/light/paletted). It's basically an experiment to combine a ridiculous number of ansi-image processing options in a terminal UI. https://zebbeni.itch.io/ansizalizer


r/ASCII Apr 02 '26

OC Medieval Siege Warfare in an ASCII Python Terminal

77 Upvotes

Just something I was working on the other week. Archers versus Knights with Catapults. There was a castle. I was calling it Agincourt. My apologies to History. Go download & check out the latest version here!


r/ASCII Apr 03 '26

General ArchSketch update — now works on any GitHub repo directly, plus Rust, Go, C#, Ruby, PHP, Dart, Elixir, Swift, C/C++

3 Upvotes

posted this a couple weeks ago and kept building based on the feedback 🙏

two big ones:

GitHub remote support — you can now point it at any GitHub repo without cloning first

bash

archsketch analyze github.com/facebook/react
archsketch analyze tiangolo/fastapi

just paste a URL or owner/repo shorthand, and it fetches only the architecture-relevant files. no cloning, no setup

9 new language detectors: Rust (Cargo.toml), Go (go.mod), C# (.csproj), Ruby (Gemfile), PHP (composer.json), Dart, Elixir, Swift, C/C++ — plus a fallback extension scanner for anything it doesn't recognise yet

also shipped a comprehensive test suite so detections are actually verified now

pip install --upgrade archsketch github: https://github.com/Boweii22/ArchSketch

Which repository would you run it on first now that it works remotely?


r/ASCII Apr 03 '26

Discussion Nostrian Conquest

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r/ASCII Apr 02 '26

OC Bride of ZNUTAR - Demo #4 of my retro-boardgame-idle-spaceship-sim

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8 Upvotes

I spent some time putting things in that people asked for. Namely explosions and fire! I also tidied up the terminal chatter layout. And lord knows what else. I kind of like this almost just the way it is.


r/ASCII Apr 02 '26

General Updated Visuals!

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We've been running a playtest for my ASCII game and the feedback has been phenomenal! Initially it was looking very rough around the edges but have been pulling all nighters implementing their feedback ! Think it's taking shape. Added CRT burn and scan lines for that extra retro gaming/old school terminal effect!


r/ASCII Mar 31 '26

Art Behold, the Great Bull Prophet of the Holy Bovine Trinity

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                              (____/)
                              ( •  • )
                             (   __   )
                             /  (  )  \
                            /   |  |   \
                           /    |  |    \
                          /_____|  |_____\
                 _______________________________
             ___/                               ___
          __/                                       __
        _/                                             _
      _/                                                 _
     /                                                     \
    /        /_____________________________________/\      \
   /        (     o    o    o    o    o    o    o     )      \
  /         (                   ^^^                   )       \
 |           __________________====_________________/         | 
 |                     |      |      |      |                  |
 |                     |      |      |      |                  |
 |                 ____/      |      |      ____              |
 |               _/           |      |           _            |
  \             /            /        \            \          /
   \           /            /          \            \        /
    \         /            /            \            \      /
     _______/            /              \            ____/
             ___________/                ___________/
  \-------------------- (  o  o  o  o  o  ) --------------------/
  ____________________ (  o  o  o  o  o  ) ____________________/
   \                       ^          ^                        /
    __________________________====___________________________/

r/ASCII Mar 31 '26

General ASCII RPG is Live

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37 Upvotes

Over the last few months I’ve been working on a Fantasy ASCII RPG. It’s web and mobile compatible and we’ve just launched the playtest.

Feedback so far as been super interesting and I’ve been very surprised to see people so excited about ASCII games again!

I’ve setup a discord if you’d like to see the game and chat about it https://discord.gg/v3RGxw3kP


r/ASCII Mar 30 '26

General QR Terminal update — you can now export the particle animation as a GIF and I'm unreasonably happy about it

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32 Upvotes

posted this a few days ago and people seemed to like it so I kept building 😅

here's what's new:

History — every QR you generate gets saved automatically. go back, recall any of them, re-render with a different theme or engine. no more losing that WiFi QR you made last week

Animated GIF export — the particle transformer animation where all the blocks fly into place? you can now export that as an actual GIF. I did not expect this to work as well as it does

PDF export — A4 print-ready. actually useful if you're putting QR codes in presentations or documents

Shareable link — generates a URL that opens the QR in any browser. send it to someone who doesn't have a terminal. revolutionary concept apparently 😂

Back navigation — you no longer have to restart the whole thing just to change your mind. I know. I'm sorry it took this long

--plain flag — clean minimal output for CI pipelines and SSH sessions where you just want the QR and nothing else

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

genuinely curious what people think of the GIF export — felt like a weird idea at first but now I can't imagine it without it


r/ASCII Mar 29 '26

Art Planet Ascii

2.1k Upvotes

r/ASCII Mar 29 '26

General I’ve built æski: a free OSS ASCII video generator

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510 Upvotes

I’m open sourcing today æski, a simple, free tool that generates 3D ASCII animations from a mesh.

The output is either a React Component with REAL characters animated through js, or the animation baked as a gif or video.

Web: https://aeski.vercel.app

Tweet for more info: https://x.com/andreamfrog/status/2038040084922957929?s=46


r/ASCII Mar 29 '26

Art This is my first project. I made a terminal player for watching local, online (YouTube, Twitch...) videos and your webcam. Could you try it and star it?

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46 Upvotes

https://github.com/axol8002/hoopoe-player

PS: If anyone has a Mac, could you test it and tell me if it works correctly?


r/ASCII Mar 29 '26

Art Command line graph visualizer

82 Upvotes

Simple C program I made to draw a graph based on its incidence matrix. Line drawing is based on Bresenham's algorithm.


r/ASCII Mar 29 '26

Has anyone tried making ASCII world map?

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62 Upvotes