ASCIIpOrtal is an awesome 2d remake of Portal with ASCII characters for graphics. It's really amazing how he managed to get the gameplay to work so perfectly with the ASCII graphics. There's even a special portal effect that lets you see through a portal. I highly recommend it, everyone download it now. His website also has lots of smaller games but nothing as good as this one. Here's the description from the readme.
Grab your hand-held portal device and enter the test chambers for a non-euclidean good time.ASCIIpOrtal is a text based puzzle game inspired by the popular video game. In ASCIIpOrtal you overcome challenges by placing portal way-points, joining two points in the map. If they player or any object passes through one portal way-point it will seamlessly exit the other. Since both way-points are the same point on the map the player's view through the portal reflects this and space warps around you as you pass through the portal.
From the main menu you can choose to 'Begin' from the first map, 'Select Level' to visit any level you've already beaten, 'Change Map Set' to load a new set of levels from any map set subdirectory in your ASCIIpOrtal directory, Read the 'Instructions', view the map set's 'Credits', or 'Quit' the game.
Within the game you can use the following keys to play:
Left/Right Arrows . Move Left/Right
Up/Down Arrows .... Move Up/Down or adjust your aim
Number Pad Keys .... Quick Aim.
Z/0 ............... Fire Blue Portal
X/PERIOD .......... Fire Yellow Portal
SPACE/5 ........... Fire 'Next' PortalESC/P/F1 .......... Pause Game
F2 ................ Change Portal Render
R ................. Restart Level
? ................. View in Game HelpThe goal of each level is to make it to one of exits on the level. Exits appear as an E on a green field.
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User Maps:
http://cymonsgames.com/forum/index.php?topic=77.0
Download (9.23 MB):
http://cymonsgames.com/asciiportal/
