How I made a game played in Notepad

Re:How I made a game played in Notepad by fouc on Thursday May 28, 2020 @08:03AM (#23336268)

> With this feature unlocked, I basically created an ASCII based renderer.

Haha this is great, having an external program that watches a text file for changes and then writes to it, and forcing a text editor to not complain in order to make it merely an "ASCII based renderer" is a neat concept.

Also very interesting that the interaction with the game involves a sort of awkward GUI where you have to bring the cursor to the right spot and then type an 'x' in order to click.

This is a stellar example of a GAAUI. Graphical ASCII Art User Interface.

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Re:How I made a game played in Notepad by chabad360 on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:21PM (#23339920)

From what the video showed, it seems that some of the interaction in the game actually involves modifying or copying the "graphics" in the center window (to clean a window, or obtain an object for example). So it seems that he actually really developed this dynamic quite a lot. It really makes me want to play.

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