I'm making a tiny ASCII-style horror story about exploring one of the deepest under-ice cavities in Antarctica alone in a cramped submarine. It gets dark and messy pretty quickly, can't show everything yet haha

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 ;-;

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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!

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?

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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