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ASCII Portal In the Works
Rock, Paper, Shotgun points out a video showing Portal, redone with ASCII graphics. It's still in development, but appears to be quite far along. Its creator, Cymon, says on his website, "I have Windows XP, so all binaries will by default be for Windows. But I will also be including the source code with the distribution and am doing my best to write it cross-platform compatible, so it should compile in Linux and Mac. I've had successful builds done in Linux." He also talks in detail about his design plans and ideas.
And as a bonus, the ending video will be entirely redone with mocap CGI ;)
...the cake is a li--ne drawing?
Paleotechnologist and connoisseur of pretty shiny things.
Liar. You love being the pedantic one.
You ASCII stupid question, you get a stupid ANSI.
Today's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why. -- Hunter S. Thompson
To get the portal effect, this guy must have used some sort of ray-casting techniques in 2D. Plus the landscape rotation likely requires a matrix operation or two and some fancy rasterization algorithms. That's so odd, that he's using such advanced graphics techniques for "just" ASCII text. Next thing you'll know he'll find a way to offload the work onto the GPU, making the first ASCII game that requires a GPU!
And that's why you're a console gamer now. You can go ahead and stare at the pretty shineys while killing hookers or whatever.