Walk Through a Cyberpunk City Built Entirely in ASCII Inside a Single HTML File
A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]
A developer has created a fully walkable cyberpunk city rendered in ASCII art, all contained in one HTML file. The video demonstrates navigating the neon-lit streets and alleyways of this retro-futuristic metropolis, showcasing how a minimalist text-based aesthetic can deliver an immersive 3D-like experience. It's a striking example of creative coding that turns a simple web page into an interactive world.
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- rkagerer
It's beautiful, but when I went to try it out myself it seems it's pay to play?
https://ko-fi.com/s/e1e0f91951
Note that's "Prototype 1", and I gather the more developed v2 (featured in the update video) isn't available yet.
- aleyan
If you want to get into fixed-width character art, I highly recommend doing it in the browser like OP did rather than trying to old school it in the terminal. I have done a little ascii[0] and unicode[1] graphics, and the browser is such a better tool. You can set fonts and proportions and know exactly how things will render for the user. Mouse input, performance profiling and a bunch of other things are just better in the browser. Both of my projects work in the terminal but were browser first.
It is kind of shocking to me how TUIs are enjoying a bit of dev tool renaissance right now when the browser is such a capable platform.
- naet
It looks really good in the video uploaded, but when I tried it myself it didn't look the same and was hard to tell what was going on. Not sure what the issue is.
- SpyCoder77
- jeffgreco
Is the GitHub project the same as the videos? Seems like no.