Earlier today on #rgrd, Ido “tametick” Yehieli posted this link to the TIGForum thread for ASCIIPaint, a Flash-based tool to do just that: paint with ASCII. The thread features some amazing ASCII art, many of which are roguelike concept screens, put together by TIGSource community members.

In lieu of a particularly busy last few weeks at work, I’ve taken a quick break from programming for a bit. I can honestly say that I have seen code in my dreams in the past, and that’s something I’d like to avoid in the present!

So for the most part, I’ve been kicking back and playing plenty of games.

The past two weeks or so, Google Analytics started to report incoming traffic from the Something Awful Forums (forums.somethingawful.com), directly into /dod. Across the past few days, this has become the 5th most popular referrer into the Dance of Death page specifically. The trouble is, I don’t recall having posted on the forums, nor am I able to find the source!