Among the growing field of indie games, one truly stands alone: Dwarf Fortress. The unbelievably rich and complex and legendarily user-unfriendly title has been a free staple of awe and frustration ...

This library provides a convenient abstraction for generating 2D ASCII graphics. By defining object vertices, you can effortlessly draw shapes. Each "pixel," though technically a character within the ...

It's been a long, long time coming, but the legendary civilization management sim Dwarf Fortress at last has a Steam and Itch.io release date. It will be available on both storefronts on December 6th ...

ASCII art holds a place near and dear to our hearts. If you were fortunate enough to get started in computers before there was such a thing as a graphical user interface (GUI) then you remember ...

Resource Expansion Simulator: Create a web-based game where users can observe and analyze how nations expand based on resource availability. This app would allow users to set parameters for the random ...

I’ve always admired ASCII graphics, mainly due to my predilection towards retro gaming and large pixels in general. Just as a game like Portal twists your ideas of space and makes you think ...

This week we customize the PUTTY terminal before plundering Sokoban's riches. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In this episode: At ...

Way back in the olden days of the IBM PC platform, the capability for bitmapped graphics only came in the form of expensive add-on graphics cards; the cheapest graphics card you could get displayed ...

The 17-year-old classic Dwarf Fortress is considered a pioneer in gaming through its massive, highly interactive world, but it's a tough sell to modern gamers with its ASCII graphics and its absence ...