Somewhere in the neighborhood of a year ago, I released a short demo of my ASCII game. The game didn't have a very wide range of enemies; it primarily offered a series of platforming challenges. Thus, I don't believe I even posted the demo on my website.

Today, though, the ASCII game has reached a much better point in its development. The game has added vertical scrolling, grabbable objects, new enemies and new world types. (I especially like the "winter world" and its cool snow effect.) All of these additions provided more than enough fuel for a second, more robust demo of the ASCII game.

Having run a beta release revealed a couple of small but corrigible bugs (my favorite: the game crashing at launch if you didn't have a joystick attached... oops!), I can now present you with the new demo of my ASCII game!

If you run Windows (any version), I recommend that you download the binary version. You can run it without any prerequisites. If you use Linux or a Mac, you can consult the Demo 2 forum thread if you need help with the dependencies.

Windows Binary download (5MB)
Source download (2MB)

For a quick peek at what kinds of levels to expect in Demo 2, you can check out the ASCII screenshot section; I posted a fair number of new images this evening.

I hope you enjoy the demo! If you have any problems running it, just mention it in the thread and I'll do anything I can to help you out.