Mage Tower: Development

For those interested in the behind the scenes of how the art of ASCII Dungeon Crawl gets made. This is my ASCII Editor. I pick the color, I pick the brush size, then I type a character on my keyboard--and that becomes my brush. The game ultimately stores this as strings with only one color attached. But to create the effect, I must render all of the colored layers over one another. That's where this tool comes in, I can easily see the layers and pick the order of which colored strings are drawn; that's how I get an image. Over time, the Editor has just grown to include more features (additional colors, animations, etc.). If you ever wondered how I did this before, I used Notepad++ for years.