ASCII Game

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Inspiration

We were inspired by simple old school games that have ASCII art. These games don't require much artist work but they can still be charming. We were also inspired by single player horror games where you have to survive an aggressive monster.

What it does

The game can be played with WASD. In the game, you run around to collect treasures marked with X, while a ghost marked with an M hunts you down.

How We built it

We made a small system that prints out the parts of the screen that the player is nearby out of a larger map. Colorama is used to add color to the text, and Blessed is used for keyboard input.

Challenges We ran into

Handling the input was a hard problem. The amount of options that there are to record key logs in replit are somewhat limited. It was also difficult to work around the limitations of using the console.

Accomplishments that We're proud of

We're proud of the display. It looks better than we expected since we didn't draw any graphics and used ASCII art instead.

What We learned

We learnt more about the options available in python in order to take input and output with the console.

What's next for ASCII Game

We are planning to make a second version of the ASCII game. We want to add pixel art, smooth movement, and possibly multiplayer.

Built With

• blessed
• colorama
• python