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ASCII-3D-Game-Engine-A-Command-Line-FPS

🚀 A custom 3D Game Engine using nothing but ASCII in the Windows Command Prompt! This project is a First-Person Shooter built on a custom ASCII 3D Game Engine, written entirely in C++. No graphics ...
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A 3D ASCII-art rendering engine that uses CUDA for GPU-accelerated computation and renders textured 3D cubes directly to the Windows Command Prompt using ANSI escape sequences.

The engine renders 3D textured cubes as ASCII characters in the terminal, with each character colored using the 256-color ANSI palette based on the underlying texture.
IEEE

Coding with ASCII: compact, yet text-based 3D content

Abstract: Because of the convenience of a text-based format 3D content is often published in the form of a gzipped file that contains an ASCII description of the scene graph. While compressed image, ...
Polygon

Dwarf Fortress mods turn ASCII text into real-time 3D graphics

Dwarf Fortress can now be played in real-time isometric 3D, thanks to a host of mods for a game designed to be rendered ASCII text format. Released in 2006, developer Bay 12 Games' Slaves to Armok: ...
siliconera

ASCII Dungeon Crawlers Given A Bloody Makeover With Brut@l

Action RPG Brut@l, which had been previously only been announced for PS4, is bringing its ASCII-dungeon crawler aesthetic to PC, starting with a Steam Greenlight campaign. Brut@l allows players to ...