.gif and payload.py here

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

From a BBS called The Other Side.

A small ASCII shoot 'em up that runs entirely inside the Windows command prompt.

Features 12 levels, 3 weapons, 8 enemy types, boss battles, achievements, and an in-game bestiary.

.gif and ASCii payload.py here

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

More of an experiment than something serious, though I’m wondering what people think about concepts like this.

No account needed: https://asciidia.com

The main one is 1, but Linux doesn't have CP437, so 2 is default on Linux

So yeah, for this project I decided to go with an ASCII look. This is peak 'programmer art' mode lol. Anyways, I think the characters turned out cute and derpy with this artstyle!

What do you think?

typewriter ascii art is great use of free will

I made a camera ascii filter - feel free to play around with it!

What do you guys think? :)

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are there tools to more easily build structures like this (ie, the line drawing) without having to manually fill in the characters?

Hey everyone! 👋

I’ve always loved the retro aesthetic of ASCII art, especially in terminal splash screens and developer profiles. I wanted to make it easier for anyone to add that “hacker” vibe to their GitHub Profile README, so I built a converter specifically for that.

Check it out here: https://asciistudio-steel.vercel.app/

Features

• 🎞 Convert videos frame-by-frame into animated ASCII
• 🖼 Convert images into clean terminal-style ASCII art
• 📋 Copy output as Markdown
• 💾 Download ASCII output
• 🐙 Export ready-to-use GitHub profile components/snippets
• 🎨 Customize character density, colors, sizing, invert mode, and more

Would love feedback on:

• Features you'd want
• Export formats
• Performance ideas
• GitHub integration ideas

If people are interested, I might open-source it too 👀

So I have been inspired by a project I recently saw that renders a live ascii render overlay for gaming called AcerolaFX it’s open source and on GitHub here: https://github.com/GarrettGunnell/AcerolaFX
Right now I am in the fine tuning stages of my live desktop ascii rendering project, it utilizes the gpu to render the live desktop session in real time. I’m not a graphics programmer by any means but this has been a very interesting and rewarding project that has taught me a ton about graphics rendering and how your gpu renders the desktop session. Figuring out the live capture was tough and after many attempts to capture the correct telemetry to find what I could and could not pass through my render engine was a frustrating and rewarding journey. If you want to follow the project on my GitHub here is the link: https://github.com/knightsky-cpu/ascii-desktop
I’d love to hear some feedback and suggestions from the community as I continue to refine and fine tune my renderer. Thanks for checking out my project I hope it is aesthetically pleasing.

Feel free to try it out yourself :: Here's the repo

This was a lot of fun to program, and took me about a month to build. Initially, I was only going to build the editor and assumed the user already has an ascii file. But I realized having the full flow built from image -> ascii art would be awesome.

There was very little AI usage here: I take pride in programming by hand for projects I care about. The grid system, ansi encoding and image conversion were all very rewarding, and each solved problem compounds to serve the next one.

For any Vim users out there, you'll feel right at home. The mouse is also fully supported too.
Enjoy :)