So should I jump in the weird portal, or...
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Video game designer / developer Making Hematic, a roguelite arpg drawn (almost) entirely in ASCII characters They / them
So should I jump in the weird portal, or...
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Guys I think people might have been tortured in here idk
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Things are looking GRIM
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Meet the loot of Hematic, the dungeon-crawling arpg roguelike you don't yet know you need in your life
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I wrote an entire ASCII scratch-off system for this dumb Gambler class
23.10.2025 14:48 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0E TO DRINK THE RUM
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Any guesses what the "Rum Totem" does?
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That's gamedev!
22.10.2025 08:20 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Congrats!
22.10.2025 07:36 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Halloween (ASCII Art)
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For more Emoticons and ASCII Art visit our Official Site: EmoticonHub
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HOT TIP
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Aw thank you!
21.10.2025 18:21 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0It's a beautiful day to spend 16 hours coding!
21.10.2025 13:28 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Our powerful blood shader renders blood as a persistent effect across an entire map that can be manipulated by otherworldly powers, like this BloodZerker subclass with an enhanced blood suction ability ๐ฉธ
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Shrines scattered around our procedural dungeons provide powerful boons like this hyper-speedy melee attack ๐น๐จ๐ฉธ
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Explore the dangerous unpredictable and loot-filled ASCII dungeons of HEMATIC! A roguelike ARPG where everything is text, pixels, and viscera! Absorb the BLOOD OF YOUR ENEMIES to grow in strength and descend! Coming soon! ๐ฉธ๐น๐ฉธ๐น
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HEMATIC: SERVANT OF THE BLOOD ORB DEMON
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A few people complained that our ASCII game's UI wasn't "ASCII Enough" so of *course* I've been busy writing an entire shader based DOS terminal simulation for the entire UI
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I'll let you know!
12.10.2025 15:23 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Loading Torment... Assembling Bones... Brewing Blood... Producing Anguish... (What it's actually doing is generating procedural textures. Neato!)
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Thank you. ๐ฉธ
12.10.2025 02:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A quick look a few of our subclasses and their special abilities! ๐น๐ฅโก๐ฉธ๐ฉธ๐ฉธ๐ฉธ
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BRING. ๐ ON. ๐ THE. ๐ BLOOD!
Hang in there!
07.10.2025 18:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Intense sounds of squelching blood, viscera, gore, the crack of bones, the tearing of ligaments
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Meet Orbus, your faithful friend and companion, a floating crystal orb filled with blood! Orbus teaches you how to play the game.
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Death's Champion Approaches
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Ooh, a creepy orb! Hope it's friendly!
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Detail: UI: From bottom to top, your health, blood, and portal orbs.
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Detail: Grass shader gently rippling the texture to simulate wind.
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