Stumbled across "Whispers in the Moss" today, a JRPG written in QBasic that uses a unique ANSI art style. The author had been working at it sporadically for about 12 years but finally shipped it in April 2024. A really neat find!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETpK9IJlacA

I also liked this write-up from the author about their experiences trying to publish on Steam / do marketing / sharing sales numbers etc
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/comments/1rvasgj/i_spent_12_years_making_an_ultraniche_qbasic_jrpg/

#textmode #ansi #qbasic #indiegame

Next Sunday, 10 of May, I'll play with @ralt144mi at Chair de Poule in Paris at 7pm. We will perform our live coding project Living Pseudographics. If you are around come see us :) :) :)

It is at 141 Rue St Maur

More about what we do on https://adelfaure.net/docs/living_pseudographics/

#livecoding #textmode #performance

For the last 25 years, Barren Realms Elite (BRE) has been frozen in amber, with the same ANSI title screen.

But it was preceded by _lots_ of other designs from 1992-97.

I put together a gallery of 14 of these forgotten screens:

https://breakintochat.com/blog/2026/05/02/the-many-ansi-title-screens-of-barren-realms-elite/

I hope you'll enjoy revisiting the changing looks of a classic BBS door game.

#bbs #retrocomputing #retrogaming #InternetHistory #history #vintagecomputing #ansiart #ansi #textmode

If you've done 6 impossible things this week, why not round it off with a trip onboard "thE grAvY trAIn" TONiGHT at 21:00 UK! (1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern)

https://erb.pw/y/tgt20260502

#DontPanic #thEgrAvYtrAIn #TextMode
#RetroComputing #BBS #ChipTunes #TrackerMusic #ANSIArt #ASCIIArt

Into the Galaxy 🪐 #textmode

draw.textmode.art/gallery/6

font: ATASCII by @dmian

attribution: BitRadical, armilk88, Eternal_Artblock, HexmaniacKairi, hastily_drawn, .┌ͿΔЧЄ┐., lowtrippy, bug, J

1-bit biomes 🪸

https://draw.textmode.art/gallery/5

font: CHUNKY by batfeula

attribution: BitRadical, .┌ͿΔЧЄ┐., Eternal_Artblock, armilk88

#textmode

If you've done 6 impossible things this week, why not round it off with a trip onboard "thE grAvY trAIn" TONiGHT at 21:00 UK! (1pm Pacific/4pm Eastern)

https://erb.pw/y/tgt20260425

#DontPanic #thEgrAvYtrAIn #TextMode
#RetroComputing #BBS #ChipTunes #TrackerMusic #ANSIArt #ASCIIArt

#Textmode Phyllosoma

#1bit #pixelart

An extra design for the Algorave is coming together

#pixelart #textmode