ASCII Renderer | Useless Game Dev

ASCII renderers are cool. Using characters to render stuff is cool. Can we do it in Unity, and how does it fare in video games?

More reading/watching on this subject:
Another ASCII Renderer in C++ https://github.com/thedmd/ascii-render
And another in Rust https://github.com/eug-vs/pistol
A demo scene ASCII renderer    • Lick Weed - Brainstorm | textmode  
Fast Rendering of Image Mosaics and ASCII Art (the next logical step after this video) https://publications.lib.chalmers.se/...

Music:
'Life in Silico' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
'Castle in the Sky' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
'Clarion ' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au

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