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0 pointsbehnamoh2y ago0 comments

On a side note, I really liked their website. The ASCII animations are interesting -- wish there was a video game that had those.

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ranger2072y ago

Cogmind (https://www.gridsagegames.com/cogmind/) has those sorts of animations

jefurii2y ago

The developer also released the ASCII art editor he used to make all those nifty designs: https://www.gridsagegames.com/rexpaint/

mlindner2y ago

I've been interested in Cogmind for a while, unfortunately it only works on Windows (which seems an odd choice for a text-based game) so I have no ability to play it.

rileyphone2y ago

It appears to work under Proton in Linux. https://www.protondb.com/app/722730

LoganDark2y ago

Woah , definitely going on my wishlist

benjaminleonard2y ago

They are very fun to make as well! I've built my own mini-lib on top of this ASCII rendering library (https://github.com/ertdfgcvb/play.core).

I design them in Monodraw, pass it through a janky converter I wrote that converts text into a json grid of characters. I then render a number of layers that get combined, which is a mix of the static art layer, and others generated from functions that spit out a similar cell based frame.

If you're interested: https://gist.github.com/benjaminleonard/c913ddbf23fe7a70f9c2...

And for what it's worth there's this ASCII game: https://twitter.com/StoneStoryRPG

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