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.mlEnglish
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    1 year ago

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

    • nickajeglinEnglish
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      1 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.