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You've got an idea. Now for the hard part: make it fun. :D Especially in a text-only medium.

My only plan for that was to add shadertoys effects to the text. Not great hence I hadn't started.

Speaking of, check out this shader ascii text game I saw on Steam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfe3VK7H6uI

I kind of love the look.

Maybe with a new set of ansi escapes we can get Zork to look like that. :D

That is really cool and inspires me and makes me want to play it and make stuff like it, thanks for showing it to me. I really do live under a rock it seems.

That is cool! I like the look of this one too: https://andreifomin.itch.io/effulgence

Ooh, that's actually the game I had in mind!

It's so much more impressive. Those 3D effects are just insane. Just look at that 3D globe.

That’s sick af

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