well, that is an INSANE amount of praise, thank you so much! but yes, the ASCII art was inspired by Dwarf Fortress, Cataclysm, and a few other games :D
replyArguably it might not be. :p
replyThat was CP437 squeezed into a terminal emulator that ran sixteen or so OpenGL calls per character. I spent a couple months building a shim library to optimise it, before Toady let me fix the game. :p
Real terminal output ought to be faster, but don’t sleep on Kitty.
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