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Caves of Qud wins the Hugo Award for Best Game or Interactive Work (bsky.app)
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[+] -8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same, I could play it if it was like nes pixel art even. But this looks like it was developed on windows 95 when only ascii art was available.

And the constant text updating you on what is around you bcz the graphics are so primitive.

Based on the description I thought it would be really interesting. But after watching a YouTube video, I was like, eehhhhh, not for me.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    developed on windows 95 when only ascii art was available

    There was never such a time...

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  • [+] -20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes there absolutely was, probably actually before windows 95. But even in 95 there were a lot of crappy ascii art games bcz there wasn't anything better technologically, so nobody would actually call it crappy.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    If only ASCII art was available, then Windows 95 itself wouldn't have been possible, being a graphical OS. Games in the 70s and 80s had non-ascii graphics.

    I've played hundreds of games before Windows 95 came out and I've never actually played an ASCII art game. Not even text adventures that I've played used ASCII art.

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  • [+] -20 points 1 year ago* (4 children)
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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    in 95 there were a lot of crappy ascii art games bcz there wasn’t anything better technologically

    i mean i still have my old 3.5 and 5.25 floppy collection of sierra games published in DOS, pre-windows (since you obviously weren't around then), that doesn't use any ascii art. you're the one throwing out wild anachronisms to make a point you don't have.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    windows 3.1 was first widespread used version of windows. But DOS games still had graphics. Nethack is a great game that is simple enough to learn, in mechanics, but you have to die 1000 times to actually learn.

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