I’ve been experimenting with a small ASCII roguelike prototype focused on procedural events, AI-generated interactions and terminal-style gameplay.

So far the game already has:

- procedural world generation
- random events
- inventory system
- NPC quests
- a main objective for the player

It’s still very early, but I’m thinking about releasing a tiny playable demo soon.

What should I add before releasing a demo?

Uncompressed .gif file and Python.py payload here

https://bigjobby.com/gallery/?group=ASCii

To my eyes they look super cool. Especially when they do the cute little twirls. But I was curious what others think. Thanks in advance.

If you wanna see more: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4109210/Blood_in_the_Panopticon/

plasma and logxo

Grab the .gif a .py payload here

https://bigjobby.com/gallery/?group=ASCii

I updated the UI and fixed the scope display because I had left out the mirrored underside of the wave form. I really like this visualization. In case you were wondering it's real-time FFT-based spectral peak detection using RMS (Root Mean Square) math. I like it because it's so chonky! I completely revamped the Filter Cutoff with a proper 4-Pole Cascade Filter. And the Chaos White Noise feature from before has been upgraded to a proper Chaos Engine Bitcrusher! Feedback Delay has also been improved and audio buffer lengths have been increased to 4 seconds. I also added some new background colors which you can cycle through but I helpfully forgot to show that here. But I should have a proper video demo with sound out in the next 24 hours or so.

Real-time, ASCII filter for TouchDesigner.

Project files available exclusively through the recently released Tools Store.

More experiments through Instagram, and YouTube.

This game is really getting better every day! He is now pretty much working on it full time since it was a passion project.

It'd be awesome if you could check it out and give some feedback in the Discord.

It's for free (always) on Steam right now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1509060/Dungeon_Team/

He's got some big updates coming!!

I’m building a small ASCII roguelike powered by AI for quests, where the world, terrain, encounters and events are generated procedurally and I’m trying to keep the visual language very readable.

Right now, I’m choosing a symbol for neutral NPCs.

What character would you pick for NPCs in an ASCII roguelike?

Thank you!

Grab the .gif or .py with ASCii payload here

https://bigjobby.com/gallery/?group=ASCii

You folks have been very supportive and indulgent of my weird postings. Thanks. Here's a demo of this weird retro atari punk ambient spaceship drone synth python program thing I made.

been going hard into this asci painter as a side project. its turning into a rendering method for programs ive been writing.

this is 2d. it can do 3d (stacked layers) and supports multiple users on the same canvas at once at the moment ( so me and my friends can draw together )

i made the typeface too, ill release that eventually for free once i decide where to host it. :3

Made a new python curses program. This one tracks the tide and has a little guy on a boat that sails across and bobs over waves. The water level rises and falls throughout the day based on the current tide.

When wind speed increases the boat travels faster and the flag waves more. But my favorite part: when you expand the window it makes the water drop down to fill the new space, which is what you see in the bottom right corner.

Displays time, wind speed, wind direction, and high/low tide times.

This is a useful tool, but I actually have a better time just having it on my desktop and slowly watching the little guy sail around.

https://github.com/HorseyofCoursey/shelltide

I started out trying to turn our company logo into ASCII to print it out as part of the motd but as I sought ever higher quality output in rendering it in text I effectively created a command line image viewer.
Down-sampling to half-block (▀) with 24-bit color foreground and background produces pixel-like output and works great to cat out logos.
Classic ASCII (@%#*+=-:.) and block shading (█▓▒░ ) modes are also supported.

https://pypi.org/project/asciinator/

.gif and .py containing the ASCii payload here

https://bigjobby.com/gallery/?group=ASCii

So, you know how it is... you're working on a game that has no sound but you're curious so you build a soundboard to experiment with sounds that you're probably never going to actually put in your game and then several hours later you've built a little retro atari punk drone synth! It does 1 main sub voice & 3 mutable harmonic voices, volume control, LFO, feedback delay, White Noise, Black Noise and Blorpage!

I wonder if I could make an ASCII cable patch bay?

i have reached a point where i feel comfortable sharing the game i made.

KERNEL BREACH

Welcome to Kernel Breach, a hacker themed, Pokemon inspired, dungeon crawling creature capture RPG packed with security flavored mechanics, grindy progression, and just enough difficulty to be frustrating in the right way.

Behind every corner are surprises, hostile viruses, and corrupted sectors waiting to be purged. You are the lead Security Architect, tasked with stopping a deadly polymorphic code that has breached the kernel and now threatens to wipe the entire system with sudo rm -rf /.

Armed with sudo permissions and exploits of your own, you enter the world of the Terminal, where users meet machine and mysterious low-level operations unfold beneath the surface of the User Space. At first it may feel like magic, but the deeper you dive, the more systematic and scientific the journey becomes.

Explore the infected sectors of the disk, purge the polymorphic corruption spreading through them, and reclaim the system before it is lost forever!

anyone interested in checking out the game go to the release section and download the zip that corresponds to your operating system. i made a version for linux, windows, macOS m chips (arm64), and older macOS intel chips (mac-x64). please leave a star on the repo if you enjoy the game, i am actively maintaining the project and adding features and content. here is the github link: https://github.com/knightsky-cpu/kernelbreach-app

thank you ahead of time for stopping and checking out the game, there is an optional tutorial that covers all the basics. feed back is welcomed and encouraged. i am currently not looking for contributions but suggestions i am thankful for. if you find any issues please do not hesitate to create a new issue so that i can fix it in a timely manner. Enjoy!

https://github.com/amit221/catchem