They are ASCII artists, devoted to taking the characters found on a typewriter keyboard and drawing Winnie the Pooh, the Mona Lisa or Abraham Lincoln out of arrangements of letters and symbols.

The second half of the ASCII character set (characters 128 through 255). Designed in the 1960s, ASCII was originally a 7-bit code (0 through 127). To accommodate foreign languages, the DOS code ...

Roguelike games have grown in popularity over the 40 years the genre has existed, even though they implement ideas that might seem anathema to popular gaming: extreme randomness, ASCII graphics ...