PETSCII – An ASCII Game With a Virtual Pet
PETSCII – Try the game. I didn’t get all the way through. A lack of success at the cooking stage.
PETSCII – Try the game. I didn’t get all the way through. A lack of success at the cooking stage.
I worked ages trying to make the 20 sided dice for roleplaying DnD gamers. But, this was the best I could work out. If it were much bigger it would be easier to get the angles right. But, I wanted it to be with dragons and I didn’t make huge dragons.
Game Workers Unite logo. (An international grassroots organization of game workers organizing unions to improve our industry. International and industrial solidarity!)
I sent the ASCII art to them via Twitter. Never heard anything back. As usually happens. ASCII art is under rated and only remembered by retro gamers I think.
The original source for this post is gone/ broken. I could not find the post elsewhere. Keeping as an archive here so the information is not lost.
… Read the rest1963: ASCII Debuts – By Mary Brandel – 04/12/99
If it weren’t for a particular development in 1963, we wouldn’t have e-mail and there would be no World Wide Web.
I don’t have a link to the game. Not even sure if it went live. A lot of them don’t. Support your (local or not) independent game developer!
What do you think about when you think about the Olympic Games?
I think about the history of the Olympics, the people who have come and gone as athletes, family and friends, coaches. I even think about the ancient Olympians, the marathon runners who ran themselves to death passing the torch. For this reason, the Olympic torch really symbolizes the Olympic Games for me.… Read the rest