ASCIIpOrtal Update 2

That’s superb, I love it! <3

Awesome. Not sure I understood the last minute or so of the trailer though.

Yes! A demake that actually adds to the idea, rather than just taking stuff away.
I always felt there was space for more object-based puzzles in Portal- and in 2d it should be easier. Well dones!

Can’t watch the video. The client or flash thing is shitty – won’t buffer while I have it paused.

oh Cymon, how I love you.

@gum: Portile was one of my sources of inspiration, unquestionably. As was another game called “Super Serif Bros.” In fact I list out my inspiration on the forum post about it:

http://cymonsgames.retroremakes.com/forum/index.php/topic,7.msg8.html#msg8

@ Hunter S.: I’m making a note here. HUGE SUCCESS!

Tho the game is 100% playable it’s far from done. I need to make menus, add sounds, and really try to make this as accessible as possible. Well, as any text-based game is now-a-days.

@Flamebait: Should I take that handle as an omen? Basically I’ve set it up so that the game loads levels from text files, anybody want to make levels for me?

I know I’m going to get a ton of e-mails requesting betas (you can click on my name above) and that’s fine, I expected that. If I get 100 levels submitted I can pick and choose. Heck, I’ll probably just throw them all in there in different map packs, the game does allow for that.

yum, brainfuck in ascii.

gum, really? You look at those two games and see that they’re 2d takes on Portal, and that’s all you see? That’s sad.

Wwwwwwhhhhooooaaaaaaaa!
That’s unbelievably awesome!

Um, what happened to my previous comment? I wonder if I made one too many links. Derek, can you fish it out of the spam queue.

Well, a mention on offworld and boingboing has officially filled my beta team requirements. Wow, this is defiantly the biggest thing I’ve ever been a part of like this. So I’m closing beta, no new members are needed at this time. Thanks everyone and keep watching for 1.0!

is the video not loading for anyone else?

Great work, Cymon.

I’ve played demakes and never felt the need to keep playing given I already had the original. But this demake stands out on its own. There’s actually motivation for owners of the original to play it.

What do you think is the best/most efficient language for programming ASCII games? I love the aesthetic, which draws from ancient memories of things like ZZT for me. I’ve developed some small games in Play BASIC, which I really like, and have used Dark Basic as well. But what platform makes it easiest or most efficient to make these grid-based ASCII-only gems?

Neat, and charming as hell. Also, your obvious and genuine enthusiasm (as featured in the video) for your own creation made me smile.

insanity!

Hm, Cymon’s contact form doesn’t appear to work.

Great job on the game! Can’t wait to play it.

Also, you were reddit’d! http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/8z01e/portalmade_on_ascii_video/

Woah, being able to look through the portals is definitely really friggin cool. Someone else already said “mind blown” but um, yeah… mind blown :)

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

Suggestions:

1 graphics needs to be made just a tad ore complex as an option using just a little larger AND SQUARE icons (as a few rouguelike). Ascii is cool but the game must not suffer too much from it.

2 graphics must clearly tell the player which location are directly visible and which are just guessed (the latter should appear darker, or gray and dark, or whatever). I think it would be so much cooler.

Oh, as an option, make non-visible squares black! Pure fog-of-war. So that what you see thought portals is even more real.

Really great stuff Cymon. I’m looking forward to this for sure!

I decided to try out making the view through portals unique. Unfortunately the limitation is with the colors available and how Curses handles them. In other words, it’s just not going to happen.

I will, however, try to make your character unique looking in the original view and not in the look through view.

The fog-of-war thing…what? Do you mean ray cast every point so that like in a roguelike you can’t see what’s around corners? Yeah, not gonna happen, sorry.

Besides, you know I’m going to release the source code, so if you want to try it yourself. When I’m done.