dub3 card · www.asciimation.co.nz
Asciimation (1999)
Star Wars, retold frame by frame in letters and punctuation.
- Cost
- 2 RAM
- Power
- 3
- Rarity
- Common
- Family
- Creators
- Era
- Dot-com (1999 to 2002)
- Collection
- Cult Classics
What it does
Each round end: If this is your only card here, +1 Power to this card.
Each round end fires as every round finishes.
It costs 2 RAM to play and brings 3 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Creators cards are strongest on their own, and some only get going late.
The site, in 1999
Simon Jansen's retelling of Star Wars as an animation made entirely of ASCII text characters, played back frame by frame in the browser.
The New Zealander began it in July 1997 and added the last frame in January 2015, covering almost 40 per cent of the film in over 16,000 frames. In 1999 Wired called it perhaps the definitive work of ASCII animation.
In 1999: Played by a Java applet Jansen wrote, at about 15 frames a second. Wired wrote about it this year.
Dot-com era, 1999 to 2002. Glossy buttons, big money and a bug called Y2K. Some of these companies were worth billions for about a fortnight.
Cult Classics: Small, strange and loved to bits by the people who found them.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 1999 page.
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 1999, then plays a short scene. Want Asciimation in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
