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GreatWyrmGold

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ASCII Stuff
« on: January 26, 2014, 11:39:45 am »
I'm thinking of doing a forum game soon which will involve a fair amount of ASCII maps. Like, all maps ASCII. I've been thinking of planning stuff out a bit, so I can get things to work and maybe get feedback.

Let's start with the basics.

@
This is a person, obviously.

║
This is a brick wall.

++ı++
++ı++
++ı++

+++
+++
---
+++
+++
Sections of road.

oo
││
╚╝
A car. Kinda.

Suggestions on how to make things look...less crappy?
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Re: ASCII Stuff
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2014, 01:38:33 pm »
oo
││
├┤
││
││
││
└┘
One of those big semis.

...I'm running out of scenery to ASCIIfy.
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Re: ASCII Stuff
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2014, 10:08:26 pm »
Well, it looks good so far to me.
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Re: ASCII Stuff
« Reply #3 on: January 28, 2014, 10:03:55 am »
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 26, 2014, 01:38:33 pm
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││
├┤
││
││
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uhuhehe...
uheheueheuheueh...
EUEHUEHEUHEUHEUEHUHEHEUEHUEHUEHEUHEUHEUEHUEH
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Re: ASCII Stuff
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2014, 09:08:54 pm »
Quote from: Sigulbard on January 28, 2014, 10:03:55 am
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on January 26, 2014, 01:38:33 pm
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││
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└┘
uhuhehe...
uheheueheuheueh...
EUEHUEHEUHEUHEUEHUHEHEUEHUEHUEHEUHEUHEUEHUEH
Wha...oh. Yeah, that needs a redesign, doesn't it?
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Re: ASCII Stuff
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2014, 06:54:59 am »
Hey there,
I don't have any suggestions for you directly, but if you are going to go through with this, have you checked out my ASCII drawing program?
http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=124021.0

I would like to think that it beats all the competition out there in most respects, and maybe it would be useful for you too, even right now, for easy prototyping. :)

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Gonna keep an eye on this. :)
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Re: ASCII Stuff
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2014, 09:21:05 am »
On the other hand, it doesn't go so easily with forum games. Or have all the neat effects.
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Re: ASCII Stuff
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2014, 10:36:30 am »
You are referring to the program?
I am not sure what you mean exactly.
Could you explain? I am always interested in seeing how I can improve my programs to make them more useful for more people. :)
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Re: ASCII Stuff
« Reply #8 on: February 02, 2014, 11:57:02 am »
Mainly that I personally consider text to be an easier medium to post on forums.

That, and I really like the abbr tag. Especially for ASCII games.
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Re: ASCII Stuff
« Reply #9 on: February 02, 2014, 12:03:38 pm »
Fair enough. And whole the program does have plain-text export, that does not support colours in any form right now.

Hmmm... BB-code export. My that would be just the thing!
Maybe when I find the time some day.

Good luck with this anyways! :)
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Re: ASCII Stuff
« Reply #10 on: February 09, 2014, 12:18:49 am »
If you're still looking for something like this GreatWyrmGold, the latest version of REXPaint exports BBCode. You'll probably want to load up one of the taller fonts (there are a bunch in the DF repository) so you can get more of a correct feel for what it will look like on a forum--I've only included square fonts with REXPaint.

As an example, I took an old drawing of a heavy plasma gun for X@COM and show it as it appears in 1) REXPaint, 2) a text file (txt), and 3) a forum:


Said BBCode as generated by REXPaint:

√▄▄▄▄╤╤╤┐
\Ö╛_\▄▄▄┘
 ▌/ ╨╨╨╨ 
 \       


Edit: BTW, there's a Bay12 thread for RP here.
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