Comments on: ASCIIpOrtal: Soooon…

By: Tei

Tei — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:29:32 +0000

Hello slashdot guys!.

FEAR ME, SINCE I HAVE 5 MOD POINTS! …ahahahaha HAHAHAHA HAAA HHAAAAA HAAAAaa /evil laught

By: Chris Ronk

Chris Ronk — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:32:11 +0000

seriously cool. Geeky, but cool.

By: Lamont Cranston

Lamont Cranston — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 02:30:30 +0000

“samwyse says:Give us the options to use the Nethack characters! @ for the player, -+| for the walls, etc.” That would be EPIC! I look forward to new ASCII games! Please Please Please use the “vi” controls like NetHack – that way I can say that it is educational……

By: samwyse

samwyse — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:44:18 +0000

Give us the options to use the Nethack characters! @ for the player, -+| for the walls, etc.

By: Arreis

Arreis — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:08:11 +0000

Two words: Epic Masterpiece.
You are a master, man. Really.

By: dicknose

dicknose — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:10:34 +0000

The BBC Micro could easily handle it Cymon. Also, look up some of the recent demos by Booze Design on YouTube to see what the C64 can really do.

By: rocky

rocky — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:52:43 +0000

Needs 100% more GLaDOS.

By: Chris McCall

Chris McCall — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:42:37 +0000

Every single game should be prototyped in ASCII before a single byte of content is produced in DirectX.

Cymon, do you plan on releasing an ASCII sidescroller SDK, so that we can make our own ASCII games?

By: Cymon

Cymon — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:58:13 +0000

It’s me. The creator of that game. No really.

Wow, thanks for the response. It’s been overwhelming, really. I’ve done a ton of silly little games before ASCIIpOrtal and when it started that’s all ASCIIpOrtal was, just a silly little game. However, like with everything I do, I probably put a little more into this than I should have. But once I set my mind to making this happen it was like a bug in my brain and I’ve got to get it out.

The math involved in this isn’t really that difficult. Linear algebra really. Find the slope, make a linear equation, if greater than, draw, if less than, no draw. I suspect this could actually run on the hardware of “back in the day”. I don’t know if it’ll go as far back as a BBC Micro or C64, but maybe a 386 could have handled this. Then again, what seems trivial now…

And, yes, it’s not technically ASCII, it’s ANSI, but that just wasn’t as catchy.

I may or may not be back here, I don’t frequent RPS, but I’ll defiantly be on the forums on my site and the comments too.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:52:06 +0000

Just because it’s ASCII doesn’t mean it could be easily done on an 8-bit machine.

There’s some serious math going on to get those effects going. It’s trivial today, but doing that sort of math in real-time back in the day would’ve been pretty slow.

By: Alanmusician

Alanmusician — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:39:50 +0000

Reminds me of ZZT. Man, I spent so many hours on that, SuperZZT, and a clone that had a French name, but I can’t remember it.

By: King Bidgood

King Bidgood — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:23:04 +0000

Looks like ANSI graphics to me.