ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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THANK YOU'S AND REFERENCES
If I saw beyond the horizon it's because I fell off giants and landed in the clouds. These are the giants.
The wonderful folks who helped
This place would be impossible without the considered contibutions and help from several wonderful folks.
- Charlie S. - Editing, QA, Sanity support
- Chiara E. - QA, UX Feedback
- Lias B. - Counsel, Feedback, Mensching
- Araya E. - Advisor, UX Feedback
- Oliver B. - QA, UX Feedback, Design input
- Jordan O. - Advisor, Mensching
- Ana T. - Advisor, UX Feedback
- Bo A. - QA, UX Feedback
- Nick E. - QA, UX Feedback, Stress Testing
- Matt F. - QA, Feedback
- Nicolas J. - Technical Guidance
- Julian P.F. - Advisor, UX Feedback
- Ivan A. - QA, UX Feedback, Inspiration
- Ray F. - Advisor, UX Feedback
* Special thanks to Larian studios for introducing me to Twine (which all of the copy on this website is hand-human authored in, typo's and all :-D ).
Helpful or indispensible resources
There are too many resources that are wonderful, I'm certainly forgetting some references, so I'll just keep adding as they come to mind.
>>Communities
- The wonderful inspirations at r/ASCII
- ASCII term a nod obviously to r/casettefuturism
- Harder-corer folks making these types of projects their dealr/circuitbending
>>Repo references
- Swordfish's retro term
- Humanbydefinition making the whole world ASCII
- VGMStream for Vox Grblr, may you have many blessings
- reference for building a video-to-ascii pipeline
>>Algorithms and coding references
- Animation references:Slime Mould
- Soft Lab Rotational Weighted Averages (Seriously check thse folks out, they have such beautiful balance of how-to and elegant design)
- Vercel's A11y and usability audits
- Andrew Kelley and the Zig community
- Asciiart.eu for making it easy to draw my ascii art
>>Design and literature References
- Envisioning Information by Edwaard R. Tufte
- How to make repeat patterns by Paul Jackson
- The Functional Art by Alberto Cairo
- Synergetics 2 by Buckminster Fuller
- System shock (Game) - LookingGlass Technologies
- Universal Principles of UX by Irene Pereyra
- Design of Everyday things by Don Norman
- Dialogue systems references: Infinity Engine games, Disco Elysium- Robert Kurvitz et friends
- Clippy and Bonzibuddy, who floundered so that Thunker could stumble
- Da vinci resources for rotoscoping and masking video to prep for ascii
- More Da vinci tutorials
>>Stack
>>Note
I did try to get it to render as as pure ASCII Terminal, with each character selectable, but it produced a ton of challenges, primary among them accessibility. Having onscreen characters that don't match the expected function (as is often the case with ASCII glyph art like on the map.
Forcing accessible navigation to a second-class experience wasn't acceptable for me, there is a strong chance that there is a clever way to do it, just haven't figured one that ticked all my boxes yet. Maybe I'll write a dev log about the quest for it the future.