Battle for Asciion

Battle for Asciion is a horizontal shoot ’em up rendered entirely in real time with ASCII characters. Ships, enemies, explosions, backgrounds and bosses are all made of text, with no sprites, images or textures.

Arcade combat

You fight through five long, challenging stages, facing increasingly intense enemy waves and giant end-of-level bosses. Precision, memorization and skill are central to the arcade-style gameplay, and you upgrade your weapons to survive. You can also deploy a single Option to extend your firepower.

Display modes

Multiple CRT-style display modes include scanlines and monochrome phosphor colors in green, amber and white.

Textshot and high scores

Textshot captures the current frame as a plain .TXT file containing the ASCII characters on screen, which you can open in a text editor, copy, share or print. The game also includes a local high-score leaderboard.