Pixelated RPGs are pretty standard in games like Legend of Zelda and Pokemon, but have you ever seen anything like ASCIICKER? It’s a full-color three-dimensional world rendered with ASCII art and ...

If you look hard enough, most of the projects we feature on these pages have some practical value. They may seem frivolous, but there’s usually something that compelled the hacker to commit time and ...

Dwarf Fortress can now be played in real-time isometric 3D, thanks to a host of mods for a game designed to be rendered ASCII text format. Released in 2006, developer Bay 12 Games' Slaves to Armok: ...

This is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a while. A resourceful developer has built a browser-based online 3D game that is entirely rendered in text — and it also has a multiplayer mode. Yes, you heard ...

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