Richeson: ASCITTY — Games
Summary—Rendered in real time on a colour terminal and on a Commodore Plus/4 — and a taxi game inside it.
Rays are cast out from the camera every frame and walk the grid front to back; nearby things are larger and brighter, distant ones fade into the dark. There are no 3D models, no textures, no shaders and no artwork: the 128 shapes it draws with are generated by a function.
The same city runs on a modern terminal and on an 8-bit Commodore Plus/4. Every picture in its documentation was made by the program itself.
Highlights
- Grid raycasting in real time, in text
- Targets a colour terminal and the Commodore Plus/4
- A taxi game set in the city
- Procedurally generated glyph set: 128 shapes from one function
At a Glance
| Language | Rust |
|---|---|
| Platform | Colour terminals; Commodore Plus/4 |
| Version | 0.9.0 |
| License | MIT |
| Source | github.com/vonglurt/ascitty |
Pictures
Fig. 1. A night city skyline drawn entirely in coloured text characters
Fig. 2. Down at street level
Fig. 3. Sunset over the city