Sometimes the creativity of the indie game scene can help push forward a development style the mainstream has left behind; in the case of this post we're referring to the wonderful world of ASCII! Indie dev Cymon's Games is hard at work developing ASCIIpOrtal, an ASCII-coded game inspired by the popular Valve puzzler, Portal.
While a video of the game in action (found after the jump) has been the talk of the Internet for the last few days, everyone at Joystiq wanted to chime in and shower Joe Larson -- and the rest of the people involved at Cymon's Games -- with high-fives and fist-pumps. Expect ASCIIpOrtal to land on a PC near you "soon-ish." New-school, meet old-school ... have fun hanging out.
[Via Total Action Adventure]
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Posted: Jul 16th 2009 6:53AM ShirowShirow said
That's trippy. And awesome. And makes me want to play nethack.
First thing ever that's made me say all three of those things.
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First thing ever that's made me say all three of those things.
Posted: Jul 16th 2009 10:50AM cheezitman2001 said
I did a lot of things I'm not proud of in my ZZT days. It turns out a game I uploaded to zzt.org way back in 2000 or so is still out there on the internet, and it sucked really hard, as I recall. Still, simpler times.
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