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  • This was really impressive. Looking at the comments, I didn't realize there was a whole ASCII art underground. I don't want to sound negative at all, but it would have been nice to seem some recognizable letters to drive home that it's ASCII.
    by mattgoupil
  • This makes me deeply nostalgic. Starlight Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog is my favorite game level of all time and the aesthetic of this city is basically like stepping into the background of Starlight Zone.

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZHR5OKDL81g

    by postalcoder
  • This is an ad. Furthemore, what is being sold, for money, is a simple prototype of a basic 3D renderer.
    by teddyh
  • I love the way this looks very interesting and impressive. One does wonder if as you keep making it more realistic, does it begin to lose it's ASCII nature a bit and become more like a normal rendered game to look at. I think it looks beautiful as it is at the moment and can not wait to see more of this.
    by kodoman
  • Says it's in one HTML file... well, where? Why post a video if you could just link to it? I don't see a link to it anywhere, and I'm not watching a youtube video to look at an HTML file.
    by Hugsbox
  • It's beautiful, but when I went to try it out myself it seems it's pay to play?

    https://ko-fi.com/s/e1e0f91951

    Note that's "Prototype 1", and I gather the more developed v2 (featured in the update video) isn't available yet.

    by rkagerer
  • It looks really good in the video uploaded, but when I tried it myself it didn't look the same and was hard to tell what was going on. Not sure what the issue is.
    by naet
  • If you want to get into fixed-width character art, I highly recommend doing it in the browser like OP did rather than trying to old school it in the terminal. I have done a little ascii[0] and unicode[1] graphics, and the browser is such a better tool. You can set fonts and proportions and know exactly how things will render for the user. Mouse input, performance profiling and a bunch of other things are just better in the browser. Both of my projects work in the terminal but were browser first.

    It is kind of shocking to me how TUIs are enjoying a bit of dev tool renaissance right now when the browser is such a capable platform.

    [0] https://aleyan.com/projects/ascii-side-of-the-moon/ [1] https://ytirnity.com/play/hexwalker

    by aleyan

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