I enjoy Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup played in the terminal with ASCII graphics. I wonder whether there are other hidden gems out there which don’t get attention because they are “ugly”?

    • @sLLiK@lemmy.ml
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      31 year ago

      I LIKE ASCII graphics done well. It tried playing the version of Stone Soup that uses tiles and couldn’t do it.

      • @nickajeglin
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        11 year ago

        Samsies. The ASCII mode is just so clean looking. It’s clear at a glance exactly what’s happening. And they put a ton of work into making colors/capitalization/characters consistent, so you immediately know something about a monster, even if you never met it. For example, birds are lower case b, rodents r, ruminants and other large herbivores Y (yak), etc. Then the color gives a sense of the elemental theme of the mob. Demon ratings using numbers with 1 being the most dangerous. It’s very clean in how it presents information.

    • @imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
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      21 year ago

      It does have a certain charm. I never really played that much tbh, my favorite part was reading the sagas of fortresses on the forums. Those were always so unpredictable and hilarious.