Battle for Asciion is a classic horizontal shoot 'em up built entirely from real text characters. No sprites. No pixels. No images. Just pure ASCII action, massive bosses, weapon upgrades and retro arcade challenge.
I love the graphical style, its great! Very neat to be able to select the terminal collar (white, green, orange). Unfortunately, the rest is pretty uninspred. While you have 4 ships to choose from, but they are all the same and just chacrater swaps. After beating the game you are told a code to play hardcore mode, but its barely more difficult, and...
Very cool concept, and a good bit of fun!
Battle for Asciion is an unusual and ambitious shoot ’em up that takes one of gaming’s oldest visual concepts and builds an entire action experience around it. Developed and published by Relevo, the game embraces a distinctive ASCII presentation where everything on screen is formed from text characters rather than conventional graphics. While many indie...
