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It uses ascii symbols?

by jebblue 14y ago

intended 14y ago
Yup, the game author's first effort Arm0k God of blood (or something on those lines) had a GUI and graphics. After being disappointed with how that worked out, he decided instead to work on a world generator and fantasy story creator. Since entire sections of game aren't in yet, and can only be expected hopefully by 2020, the idea of making an unified interface along with having graphics was dropped. This has led to several happy and unhappy coincidences. Firstly the constant griping about how its hard to understand, both from a UI and a graphics perspective. Secondly its created a great/stellar/benchmark setting gaming community, because its difficulty has acted as an inherent gating/filtering mechanism.
devcpp 14y ago
It's not actually ASCII, there are many more characters used. It is however "ASCII art", in that the characters are used to graphically represent places and objects.
praptak 14y ago
Not really ASCII. One of the 8-bit character sets that have smiley faces, border-drawing characters and similar stuff. Check it out here: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tileset_repository http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tileset_repository
DanBC 14y ago
...and it uses text in an annoying way. It renders the text in OpenGL, which is one of the reasons why a 'text mode' game is so resource intensive.
- Deestan 14y ago
  > It renders the text in OpenGL, which is one of the reasons why a 'text mode' game is so resource intensive. No, that is not really resource intensive. The massive simulation behind the graphics is resource intensive.
  - jebblue 14y ago
    I guess I'll have to check it out, though anything so involved might be too time intensive for me.
Deestan 14y ago
No. It uses one of the popular code pages of the DOS era which is mostly an extension of ASCII. ASCII: http://www.asciitable.com/ http://www.asciitable.com/ IBM Code Page 437: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437

It uses ascii symbols?

by jebblue 14y ago

It uses ascii symbols?

Yup, the game author's first effort Arm0k God of blood (or something on those lines) had a GUI and graphics. After being disappointed with how that worked out, he decided instead to work on a world generator and fantasy story creator. Since entire sections of game aren't in yet, and can only be expected hopefully by 2020, the idea of making an unified interface along with having graphics was dropped. This has led to several happy and unhappy coincidences. Firstly the constant griping about how its hard to understand, both from a UI and a graphics perspective. Secondly its created a great/stellar/benchmark setting gaming community, because its difficulty has acted as an inherent gating/filtering mechanism.

devcpp 14y ago

It's not actually ASCII, there are many more characters used. It is however "ASCII art", in that the characters are used to graphically represent places and objects.

praptak 14y ago

Not really ASCII. One of the 8-bit character sets that have smiley faces, border-drawing characters and similar stuff. Check it out here: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tileset_repository http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/Tileset_repository

DanBC 14y ago

...and it uses text in an annoying way. It renders the text in OpenGL, which is one of the reasons why a 'text mode' game is so resource intensive.

Deestan 14y ago
> It renders the text in OpenGL, which is one of the reasons why a 'text mode' game is so resource intensive. No, that is not really resource intensive. The massive simulation behind the graphics is resource intensive.
- jebblue 14y ago
  I guess I'll have to check it out, though anything so involved might be too time intensive for me.

Deestan 14y ago

No. It uses one of the popular code pages of the DOS era which is mostly an extension of ASCII. ASCII: http://www.asciitable.com/ http://www.asciitable.com/ IBM Code Page 437: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437