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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 5 Nov 2002.
Re: [DIS] where is everyone?

Re: [DIS] where is everyone?

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> I'm writing a RogueLike game that may have fantasy characters larger
> than one square, and have been looking for ideas about how to best
> represent them in ASCII. The side on view seems to suck - maybe top
> down with fill art?

Have you played quake with the falcons eye plugin for nethack?
http://falconseye.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/falconseye
http://www.hut.fi/~jtpelto2/nhfeatures.html

I liked the 3d perspective but not the game play.  You could try to do
something like that in your game.   As for the rest of the details
that you inumerated: its your game do what you want.  But make sure
you check out http://artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~brain/0verkill/


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          <tran> A AM HUNTING FOR DICK </tran>

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