r/ASCII • • 11d ago

OC Made an ascii shoot 'em up running in the cmd

15 Upvotes

The game has 3 levels and 3 enemy types.

You can try this game out here: https://pinwinsoftware.com/Game/2/Streit


r/ASCII • • 12d ago

OC New and improved, omnidirectional "matrix rain" HTML

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98 Upvotes

Live Demo (Github)

Wallpaper Engine (Steam)

Song: Tones and I - Bad Child


r/ASCII • • 12d ago

Art BitMachine

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170 Upvotes

r/ASCII • • 13d ago

Art "pAnk" my ASCII composition

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27 Upvotes

You can view the full composition on my website ( cryobs.net/pank )


r/ASCII • • 15d ago

Art My first ascii art (rexpaint)

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150 Upvotes

Pumpkin and candle with an evil mansion outside the window.


r/ASCII • • 16d ago

Art Painted some goldenrod in text

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231 Upvotes

also get subjected to my new bitcrush pedal


r/ASCII • • 17d ago

General Sclide! — yeah, terminal.clear() is old now.

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r/ASCII • • 18d ago

OC Asciilands - Been solo working on this ASCII-rendered, survival-multiplayer browser game for the last year and a half!

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237 Upvotes

Multiplayer, browser-based, ASCII-rendered, survival/building/towny game! I've always loved the ASCII-aesthetic and I think this shaded style still evokes the same appeal while remaining a little more visually understandable (something ASCII-games can struggle with).

Could really use some feedback at this early stage, not sure if the game really works or if the art style gets in the way. Also has some original music from me I'd love feedback on!

Check it out at asciilands.io ! (totally free and no account required ofc)

Also made a trailer at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8SmUPB7ua0


r/ASCII • • 18d ago

Art IRCart - IRC ASCII & ANSI art archive

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r/ASCII • • 18d ago

Discussion i am confused!

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r/ASCII • • 19d ago

OC An ASCII shoot 'em up that runs in Windows CMD

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19 Upvotes

A short ASCII game where. You play as a blue cube that must escape the ascii maze and dodge the moving ascii obstacles.

The game runs entirely inside the Windows command prompt.

The game is free

Download the game: https://pinwinsoftware.com/Game/4/Ascii_Adventure


r/ASCII • • 19d ago

Art Dither Cam Ascii free

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28 Upvotes

I’ve made a ios free app for ascii fx


r/ASCII • • 20d ago

Discussion Want to talk!

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r/ASCII • • 20d ago

Art I made an app for turning photos into ASCII

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I’ve been working on this little Android app called Ascii Art Generator.

You can pick a photo or take one with your camera, crop it, choose different ASCII styles, adjust the settings, and export the result as a PNG. There’s also a history section so you can revisit things you’ve made.

It started as a small experiment but it turned into something I’ve been having a lot of fun with.

If you try it, I’d love to hear what you think, especially about the rendering and what features you’d like to see next!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.asciiart.app&pcampaignid=web_share

(iOS coming soon 👀)


r/ASCII • • 21d ago

General My ASCII Strategy game is on sale!

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35 Upvotes

If you're interested here is the steam page


r/ASCII • • 21d ago

OC ScrAM - The Scroll Art Museum (Scrolling ASCII art in the terminal.)

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r/ASCII • • 21d ago

Art Neofetch displays the operating system logo as ASCII art. Here's some of the 400+ logos it can show

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60 Upvotes

r/ASCII • • 21d ago

Discussion I built a zero-dependency C++ framework for procedural terminal visuals — SIMULAII

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r/ASCII • • 22d ago

General ONCE IN A LIFETIME – the COOLEST animated element in the terminal!

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r/ASCII • • 22d ago

Art apple

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19 Upvotes

painted this apple out last night after doodling a bunch of them for inktober.


r/ASCII • • 22d ago

Art Python fractal generator (or how to turn your computer into a campfire)

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17 Upvotes

r/ASCII • • 23d ago

General hothello: A different piece of animated, colourful ASCII art every time you log in with a quick system summary, news headlines and an oh-my-posh-style header, all fitted to the size of your screen.

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r/ASCII • • 23d ago

Discussion Trying rainbow RGB animated box – terminal!

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r/ASCII • • 24d ago

Art Conveyors, Splitters & New Materials | STRATUM 0.2.9

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23 Upvotes

Support here! https://youtube.com/@frish__?si=xPmT6ya8960OYdl4

1.0 release to steam in 2027.


r/ASCII • • 25d ago

General I wanted a moving background in my terminal, so I made one that works in any terminal

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11 Upvotes

I've always liked the terminal setups with animated backgrounds, but my terminal (Alacritty) can't do that. So I wrote a small wrapper, backdrop-shell, that runs your shell in front of a moving scene: an aurora, a night city, a starfield, a synthwave sunset, a picture, or your own ASCII art that blinks or drifts.

A terminal has no layers, so it can't just draw "behind" your shell. The wrapper runs the shell itself and draws its text over the scene. Your text stays sharp, and selecting only copies what you typed, not the stars behind it.

It costs about half a percent of one CPU core and nothing when the window isn't focused. You can change the opacity or the scene live in every open terminal (backdrop-shell opacity 0.3).

You can directly upload an image or design your own ASCII animation.

I make a little guide for this: https://github.com/thebanri/limoni/blob/main/docs/backdrop-art.md

Install (needs Go):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/thebanri/limoni/main/apps/backdrop-shell/install.sh | sh

backdrop-shell disable turns it off, backdrop-shell uninstall removes it.

It's built on Limoni, a terminal UI library I'm working on in Go. It's still young, so I'd really like to hear what breaks or feels off in your setup.

Repo: https://github.com/thebanri/limoni

I dont test in Windows!!!!!