A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]

Post by k7peak » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 2:47 PM UTC

thomasfromcdnjs wrote: post #40

aleyan wrote: post #11

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…

I built sshfighter.com recently and pushed terminal graphics to the limit (with no kity) You have to zoom out to get more pixels for it to look good (and press v to switch rendering engine if it starts off poor) > ssh sshfighter.com And instructions on how to do it are here -> https://github.com/thomasdavis/sshfighter.com/blob/main/docs... (the homepage is ai generated, the real work is in the ssh server)

Post by echoangle » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 3:25 PM UTC

slowin wrote: post #31

aleyan wrote: post #11

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…

> 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. Command line tools (and by extension TUIs) can be used over SSH and don't require messing around with HTTPS certificates. They also have the benefit of having the context of your CWD.

Post by wredcoll » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 4:20 PM UTC

k7peak wrote: post #61

thomasfromcdnjs wrote: post #40

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I built sshfighter.com recently and pushed terminal graphics to the limit (with no kity) You have to zoom out to get more pixels for it to look good (and press v to switch rendering engine if it starts off poor) > ssh sshfighter.com And instructions on how to do it are here -> https://github.com/thomasdavis/sshfighter.com/blob/main/docs... (the homepage is ai generated, the real work is in the ssh server)

This is awesome. I did the same, sshwars.com [NSFW]. Mine is def not as graphic cool as yours but different game play. OP: Amazing ascii world! I love old school terminal style everything.

Post by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe » Tue, Sep 01, 2026, 4:57 PM UTC

ivanjermakov wrote: post #66

Hugsbox wrote: post #55

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Ah yes, let me just whip out my wallet real quick and pay for a demo of an HTML file. I'll _definitely_ be doing that.

To be fair it's a great way to accept donations.

Post by alchemism » Wed, Sep 02, 2026, 2:19 AM UTC

thomasfromcdnjs wrote: post #57

mspreij wrote: post #52

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I was pretty proud of my Game of Life & Wireworld implementations for the terminal, with half-character resolution o.o; Guess I'll have to up my game and start work on Twin Cobra and Dune ][ clones.. now that I've seen it's possible.. Using sprites is clever :-) then I guess that's how these older games worked too.

would love to see what you build. i am working a ssh mmorpg, about to start working on the lore