Featured Game: ASCII

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Jan 9 2013, 11:06 pm (Edited on Jan 10 2013, 4:26 am)

ASCII

by Magicsofa



ASCIIASCII - At Symbol Causes Inexcusable Injuries - is a fast-paced and addicting shooter developed by Magicsofa and released in mid December. Players can take to playing by themselves or going multiplayer to fight waves of enemies on six different maps, using a plethora of different power-ups.

ASCII is one of very few games that utilize BYOND's text mode. The players and maps are rendered using text characters rather than pixelated graphics. Despite this, it manages to be visually pleasing and the gameplay is very smooth.

For those with a competitive edge to them, a leaderboard exists to climb to the top of.

Magicsofa has mentioned an update forthcoming featuring a new game mode, customization, and new music tracks.

Screenshots


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Videos



Jan 9 2013, 11:09 pm (Edited on Jan 10 2013, 4:26 am)
Apologies on the lateness of this article, I got sidetracked a lot and had a few technical issues.
Jan 10 2013, 3:39 am
This game was actually a ton of fun I played it the first time.
Simple but addictive, which is just the type of games that BYOND needs! :)
Jan 10 2013, 4:27 am
In response to Oasiscircle
Indeed. It's especially fun to play with others. =)
Jan 10 2013, 7:19 am
i looked at it seeing what i thought would be a boring low graphic 2d game once i actually played it i was overly surprised gotta play this game go ply it have a great time i leave you with...DOTS....................................................
Jan 10 2013, 7:26 am (Edited on Jan 10 2013, 8:38 am)
Thanks so much for the feature LordAndrew, and I say better late than never (there's still three more weeks of January and that's more publicity than I was expecting at this point :D)

Also thanks to everyone who has played and enjoyed the game.

I'm pleased to announce that I just finished my next update, which includes Team DM mode meaning you get to shoot each other too :D I will warn everyone however, that this mode might have some bugs because I wasn't able to test it as much as I would like. So if y'all could try out my server and report any bugs if they happen I would appreciate it a lot!

EDIT: Well, I've discovered a major bug with maintaining the list of players/scores. This breaks a lot of things in either game mode - I have a good idea of what is going on so I should be able to fix it by tonight. Until then y'all will just have to settle for single player :(
Jan 11 2013, 11:03 pm
this is the dumbest game i have ever see in mah life -_-
Jan 12 2013, 3:52 am
I'm with Chillyspace; when I first saw this game posted on the forums, I didn't know what to expect. Screenshots really don't do the mechanics of this game justice, because they just feel so right you have to try it yourself.

It definitely reminds me of classic arcade games with its "grid-based yet somehow smooth" movement and responsive controls. It also has a good amount of content; with a fair number of playable maps, power-ups, enemies types, and terrain features. An awesome (and sufficiently retro) soundtrack will have you bobbing your head as you take out the waves of enemies.

You can tell Magicsofa put a lot of thought into the game because of the little details, like an option to skip up to the first nine waves and jump right into the more frenzied action.

I haven't had a chance to play it online yet, but I'm hoping to find some time to. Also looking forward to those new game modes.

Keep up the good work, Magicsofa!
Jan 13 2013, 8:55 am
In response to Khiomal
Khiomal wrote:
this is the dumbest game i have ever see in mah life -_-

LOL...welcome to byond!

Jan 17 2013, 6:37 am
Just wanted to let everyone know that I've made another update, and I'm going to make a second pass at hosting a PVP server, which should be less buggy XD

It seems my posts aren't showing up in the "game updates" section...not sure why...
Jan 17 2013, 6:42 am
In response to Magicsofa
Magicsofa wrote:
It seems my posts aren't showing up in the "game updates" section...not sure why...

Are you checking the "Crosspost to main forums (when available)" box?
Jan 17 2013, 7:48 am
I'm extremely glad that this got featured! I've been watching it for a decent amount of time. Great music, sweet game play, and sexy to boot.
Jan 17 2013, 8:27 am
In response to LordAndrew
LordAndrew wrote:
Are you checking the "Crosspost to main forums (when available)" box?

Oh, I suppose not...so only a new thread will show up in game updates? That would make sense - otherwise every comment would bump it up...

Vrocaan wrote:
I'm extremely glad that this got featured! I've been watching it for a decent amount of time. Great music, sweet game play, and sexy to boot.

Why thank you :D you were my first fan!
Jan 30 2013, 3:22 am
Pizdatiy soundtrack!