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Land of ASCII

Every hill, river, roof and sheep in Land of ASCII [0.6.5] is drawn in letters, and so are the people of its three villages. It's a quiet game about exploring a small land, roughly 2 x 2 km, and the whole thing fits in one 1 MB HTML file. There are no images and no engine, and you play it in your browser. There's a fort on a hill and a lake to walk to. The villagers go about their own days; say hello and some of them will ask you a small favour. Stop wherever the view is good and sketch it. Night falls, rain sets in and clears again, and the music and every sound are made in code as you walk. Half an hour is enough to see the main sights. After that the land is still there whenever you want a calm walk, and each seed builds a different world. - The whole game is one HTML file of about 1 MB (1,017 KB). No images, no engine, no downloads. - The world is 2 x 2 km. Walking straight across takes about 8 minutes. - Every frame is around 40,000 letters, drawn from 28 characters in 617 colours. - 32 kinds of sound and 3 music tracks, all made in code as you play. There isn't a single recording. - The default world has nearly 12,000 trees, 58 villagers, 255 animals and 59 buildings. - The villagers have 329 lines of dialogue between them. - 27,000 lines of code, with no libraries.