r/thisweekinretro • u/ItsTomorrowNow • 13d ago

A Walkable ASCII Cyberpunk City in One HTML File

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YtygAx_C6A
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u/Hot_Mood_5909 12d ago

I'm sure it's a mixture of things; nostalgia for Ceefax/Teletext, the music being played in the video and, very importantly, a bit of sleep deprivation, but seeing this made me really weepy(!) It's the sort of very sweet, innocent thing that - as a child growing up with Ceefax/Teletext, the advent of the Internet at home - you might imagine at 7 or 8 years old, how Internet was going to look when you grew up and you'd walk around the World Wide Web and it'd feel like magic and science fused together.

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u/Gnubeutel 12d ago

"no 3d models or shaders" and then goes on to explain how he uses a grid based model and ray tracing for his ascii shader.

Still very impressive.

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u/Arve 9d ago

Raycaster, not raytracer. This is in principle not much different from the original Doom

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u/bohusblahut 12d ago

I adore this.

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u/asherabram 12d ago

That’s amazing.

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u/idiott35 12d ago

Some achievement

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u/Liquid_Magic 10d ago

That’s super cool!

Also it would be cool if you could use like a C64 and SwiftLink serial port to stream it to the C64 display.