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ASCII Art
- 161 statements
- 29 feature instances
- 26 referencing feature instances
| ASCII Art | type |
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| ASCII Art | label |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art | page |
AsciiArt | |
| ASCII Art | comment |
Using typed characters in a way that makes pictures. The usual method is by treating the characters as pixels (best done with a monospaced font, and in a plain-text file) and placing the characters into the appropriate spots line by line. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Some can even simulate different shades by using characters that take up different amounts of white space (hyphens and underscores take up little, and represent light shades, while pound and percent signs take up a lot, and represent dark shades). Originates from the typewriter. Often seen in online game walkthroughs, like those at GameFAQs. Message boards and software crack teams will have this as well. As with any art, the quality of a piece of ASCII art depends on the skill of the artist. Compare the simplest form of this, the Emoticon. Scantron Picture is a more manual way of getting the same effect. |
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| ASCII Art | fetched |
2022-07-15T19:06:28Z | |
| ASCII Art | parsed |
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| ASCII Art | processingComment |
Dropped link to AprilFoolsDay: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| ASCII Art | processingComment |
Dropped link to CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| ASCII Art | processingComment |
Dropped link to MemeticMolester: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| ASCII Art | processingComment |
Dropped link to PerpetualSmiler: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| ASCII Art | processingComment |
Dropped link to PyramidBuilder: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| ASCII Art | processingComment |
Dropped link to Roguelike: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
| ASCII Art | processingComment |
Dropped link to StarWars: Not an Item - CAT | |
| ASCII Art | processingComment |
Dropped link to Troll: Not an Item - IGNORE | |
| ASCII Art | processingUnknown |
Pyramid Builder (Video Game) | |
| ASCII Art | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| ASCII Art / int_11b7db91 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_11b7db91 | comment |
Adventure Time: In "Holly Jolly Secrets", BMO printed an ASCII picture of Gunter while analyzing the Ice King's video diaries. | |
| ASCII Art / int_11b7db91 | featureApplicability |
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| ASCII Art / int_11b7db91 | featureConfidence |
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| Adventure Time | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_11b7db91 | |
| ASCII Art / int_24e985c7 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_24e985c7 | comment |
Brut@l (not to be confused with Brutal: Paws of Fury) goes a step further with this trope: characters, enemies, and objects are rendered in 3D, but are also decorated with their respective ASCII characters. | |
| ASCII Art / int_24e985c7 | featureApplicability |
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| ASCII Art / int_24e985c7 | featureConfidence |
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| Brutal: Paws of Fury (Video Game) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_24e985c7 | |
| ASCII Art / int_261c8d3f | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_261c8d3f | comment |
The Simpsons had a couch gag with ASCII art. | |
| ASCII Art / int_261c8d3f | featureApplicability |
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| ASCII Art / int_261c8d3f | featureConfidence |
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| The Simpsons | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_261c8d3f | |
| ASCII Art / int_2dc12aeb | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_2dc12aeb | comment |
"Jon's Dungeon" is styled after NetHack, complete with the characters and objects being represented by ASCII characters. | |
| ASCII Art / int_2dc12aeb | featureApplicability |
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| ASCII Art / int_2dc12aeb | featureConfidence |
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| NetHack (Video Game) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_2dc12aeb | |
| ASCII Art / int_37764439 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_37764439 | comment |
Candy box! is a text-based online game that has ASCII art as its graphics. Like Dwarf Fortress, the game itself is much more extensive than the graphics would imply. Notably, most of the enemies in the first game are made of text such as "GOB" for goblins, but those in the sequel are made of proper ASCII graphics (apart from the rats in the starting cellar, which are made of the text "rat" as a Call-Back to the first game). | |
| ASCII Art / int_37764439 | featureApplicability |
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| ASCII Art / int_37764439 | featureConfidence |
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| Candy box! (Video Game) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_37764439 | |
| ASCII Art / int_3fb5c1a2 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_3fb5c1a2 | comment |
VGA Miner: If you die, you get an ASCII tombstone reading, "Here lies a brave miner. He died with his tool in his hand, for the love of sweet Miss Mimi. His Bank Account was (amount)" | |
| ASCII Art / int_3fb5c1a2 | featureApplicability |
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| ASCII Art / int_3fb5c1a2 | featureConfidence |
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| VGA Miner (Video Game) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_3fb5c1a2 | |
| ASCII Art / int_44e0b783 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_44e0b783 | comment |
"ASCIIfield" converts a Garfield comic into simplistic ASCII text. | |
| ASCII Art / int_44e0b783 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_44e0b783 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Garfield (Comic Strip) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_44e0b783 | |
| ASCII Art / int_454cf79f | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_454cf79f | comment |
The Most Stupid Deaths In Super Mario 64 has an ASCII Kirby (actually the Bracket Guy) show up. | |
| ASCII Art / int_454cf79f | featureApplicability |
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| ASCII Art / int_454cf79f | featureConfidence |
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| The Most Stupid Deaths In Super Mario 64 (Web Video) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_454cf79f | |
| ASCII Art / int_64e03e4b | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_64e03e4b | comment |
Some users of Facebook occasionally decorate their status messages with Unicode art: the Latin-1 range, stars, Japanese characters, box drawing characters, etc. It's also possible to make "Unicode graffiti" using certain combining characters that stack on top of each other. When enough are stacked, they will overflow and potentially litter the text that is above them. |
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| ASCII Art / int_64e03e4b | featureApplicability |
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| ASCII Art / int_6c1234ed | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_6c1234ed | comment |
Dwarf Fortress, being inspired by roguelikes (and partly one itself), is made entirely in ASCII... Sort of. It doesn't actually output true ASCII characters by default, but rather uses a graphical tileset that was originally based on CP-437, the proprietary "extended ASCII" character set that Microsoft created for use with the original MS-DOS. You can tell by the fact that if you look very closely, the "smiley face" characters (☺) that are used to represent dwarves have three-pixel beards. Also, the opening video is entirely done using ASCII as well. |
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| ASCII Art / int_6c1234ed | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_6c1234ed | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dwarf Fortress (Video Game) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_6c1234ed | |
| ASCII Art / int_74da632f | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_74da632f | comment |
Progressbar 95: There is a piece of ASCII art that depicts Clippy saying "Hello!" in one of the readme.txt files found when searching ProgressDOS. | |
| ASCII Art / int_74da632f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_74da632f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Progressbar 95 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_74da632f | |
| ASCII Art / int_7c07b78c | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_7c07b78c | comment |
monospace is a Webcomic based on this concept. | |
| ASCII Art / int_7c07b78c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_7c07b78c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| monospace (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_7c07b78c | |
| ASCII Art / int_8e595444 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_8e595444 | comment |
Pani Poni Dash! sometimes replaced faces with ShiftJIS art. | |
| ASCII Art / int_8e595444 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_8e595444 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pani Poni Dash! | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_8e595444 | |
| ASCII Art / int_93aab187 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_93aab187 | comment |
The back cover of Jaga Jazzist's album The Stix has the album credits formatted in the shape of a mountain range. (It's not true ASCII art, as it's not monospaced.) | |
| ASCII Art / int_93aab187 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_93aab187 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Jaga Jazzist (Music) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_93aab187 | |
| ASCII Art / int_a52def46 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_a52def46 | comment |
Kerbal Space Program has its readme file headers in ASCII. | |
| ASCII Art / int_a52def46 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_a52def46 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Kerbal Space Program (Video Game) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_a52def46 | |
| ASCII Art / int_a6543322 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_a6543322 | comment |
This is actually how Touhou Project's yukkuris were born; the ASCII Art the original poster had used made the girls' heads look deformed, and the rest went down in infamy. | |
| ASCII Art / int_a6543322 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_a6543322 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Touhou Project (Franchise) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_a6543322 | |
| ASCII Art / int_a895e9d3 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_a895e9d3 | comment |
Calling the BBS number gives ASCII art of what turned out to be official art from Portal 2. | |
| ASCII Art / int_a895e9d3 | featureApplicability |
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| ASCII Art / int_a895e9d3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Portal 2 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_a895e9d3 | |
| ASCII Art / int_c4282b71 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_c4282b71 | comment |
Similarly, Rainbow Dash's memetic "so AWESOME" face from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, "/)^3^(\", has been adopted as an emoticon by a lot of the fandom. | |
| ASCII Art / int_c4282b71 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_c4282b71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_c4282b71 | |
| ASCII Art / int_cb6abea3 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_cb6abea3 | comment |
You fool! You've activated my trap card! | |
| ASCII Art / int_cb6abea3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_cb6abea3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_cb6abea3 | |
| ASCII Art / int_cca73ee1 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_cca73ee1 | comment |
Advent of Code is made up of ASCII art. | |
| ASCII Art / int_cca73ee1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_cca73ee1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Advent of Code (Website) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_cca73ee1 | |
| ASCII Art / int_d59e2ca4 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_d59e2ca4 | comment |
For awesome uses of ASCII art, there are modified versions of Quake and Unreal Tournament that render the graphics in ASCII. | |
| ASCII Art / int_d59e2ca4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_d59e2ca4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Quake (Video Game) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_d59e2ca4 | |
| ASCII Art / int_d7cc3505 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_d7cc3505 | comment |
Square Root of Minus Garfield: "ASCIIfield" converts a Garfield comic into simplistic ASCII text. "ASCIIfield Mark II", released a month later, is much larger and more detailed, with colored text. "Jon's Dungeon" is styled after NetHack, complete with the characters and objects being represented by ASCII characters. "GarfASCII" is done in colored ANSI art. |
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| ASCII Art / int_d7cc3505 | featureApplicability |
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| ASCII Art / int_d7cc3505 | featureConfidence |
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| Square Root of Minus Garfield (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_d7cc3505 | |
| ASCII Art / int_dc25de3f | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_dc25de3f | comment |
The credits of Portal. There are some in the source files that don't get used. Calling the BBS number gives ASCII art of what turned out to be official art from Portal 2. |
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| ASCII Art / int_dc25de3f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_dc25de3f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Portal / Videogame | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_dc25de3f | |
| ASCII Art / int_e25322af | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_e25322af | comment |
Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "virus", Marzipan is turned into an ASCII art version of herself that speaks in distorted gibberish when she tries to talk. In "the paper", during a flashback to the day Strong Bad and the Paper met, a young Strong Bad is seen wanting to print out "that butt I made out of hyphens and dollar signs". At the end of the email, the New Paper tries to mollify Strong Bad by printing out a reproduction of said ASCII art butt. |
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| ASCII Art / int_e25322af | featureApplicability |
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| ASCII Art / int_e25322af | featureConfidence |
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| Homestar Runner (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_e25322af | |
| ASCII Art / int_ea4f62db | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_ea4f62db | comment |
Blaccuweather reporter Ollie Williams popping in for a quick update of his opinion of the topic.. | |
| ASCII Art / int_ea4f62db | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_ea4f62db | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Family Guy | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_ea4f62db | |
| ASCII Art / int_ed113c02 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_ed113c02 | comment |
Saints Row IV At one point durring the mission where you recruit Johnny Gat, Mat Miller screws with the graphics and turns you into a toilet and then the whole game into ASCII art for the time you are in the midway point hallway. | |
| ASCII Art / int_ed113c02 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_ed113c02 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Saints Row IV (Video Game) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_ed113c02 | |
| ASCII Art / int_ee6c1abc | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_ee6c1abc | comment |
In the Strong Bad Email "virus", Marzipan is turned into an ASCII art version of herself that speaks in distorted gibberish when she tries to talk. | |
| ASCII Art / int_ee6c1abc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_ee6c1abc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Strong Bad Email (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_ee6c1abc | |
| ASCII Art / int_f197ea60 | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_f197ea60 | comment |
Dinosaur Comics' T. rex yelling. | |
| ASCII Art / int_f197ea60 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_f197ea60 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Dinosaur Comics (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_f197ea60 | |
| ASCII Art / int_ff9ab17f | type |
ASCII Art | |
| ASCII Art / int_ff9ab17f | comment |
The Captain Picard Face Palm | |
| ASCII Art / int_ff9ab17f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| ASCII Art / int_ff9ab17f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation | hasFeature |
ASCII Art / int_ff9ab17f |
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