The Y-Front - 3D ASCII Shooter

The Y-Front is a 3D forward-scrolling shooter rendered completely in the Windows Command Prompt. It was created by The Eccentric Muffins as their freshman game project at Digipen Institute of Technology.

The Y-Front went on to win both Best Freshman Technology and Best Freshman Game at the 2010 Digipen Game Awards.

The Y-Front is programmed in the C programming language using the Windows API and the FMOD Sound System.

Team:
Jason Meisel
Corey Kay
Luke Manrodt
Colin Avrech

You can download it free here: https://www.digipen.edu/?id=1170&proj=24156

All content © 2010 DigiPen (USA) Corporation, all rights reserved.

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[Visual61]

Incredible details, really! You had a lot of work with this. Everything potentiates when you have three dimensions.

[AlaskanGenius]

Did you just run it in a really large prompt so that you could manage this kind of depth of detail?

[TheYFrontGame]

@CecilSunkure It's programmed in C, compiled in Visual Studio 2008 for x86. It runs in the Windows Command Prompt; all the "pixels" are colored ASCII characters.

[Phantom5801]

@dailyflossproduction yes it is ;) trust us, those "large pixels" are in fact ascii characters

[dailyflossproduction]

this isn't ascii though, is it?

[dailyflossproduction]

let me play.

[Phantom5801]

I <3 this video

[hhslf]

Alienbraham Lincoln?! My god!