Got any cool ASCII art to share for the intro to your game? 
Post below!
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Here is my ASCII art intro
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Hello,
I tried to use this ASCII art intro :
void PrintIntroduction()
{
std::cout << " ███ ▄████████ ▄█ ▄███████▄ ▄█ ▄████████ ▀████ ▐████▀ \n";
std::cout << "▀█████████▄ ███ ███ ███ ███ ███ ███ ███ ███ ███▌ ████▀ \n";
std::cout << " ▀███▀▀██ ███ ███ ███▌ ███ ███ ███ ███ █▀ ███ ▐███ \n";
std::cout << " ███ ▀ ▄███▄▄▄▄██▀ ███▌ ███ ███ ███ ▄███▄▄▄ ▀███▄███▀ \n";
std::cout << " ███ ▀▀███▀▀▀▀▀ ███▌ ▀█████████▀ ███ ▀▀███▀▀▀ ████▀██▄ \n";
std::cout << " ███ ▀███████████ ███ ███ ███ ███ █▄ ▐███ ▀███ \n";
std::cout << " ███ ███ ███ ███ ███ ███▌ ▄ ███ ███ ▄███ ███▄ \n";
std::cout << " ▄████▀ ███ ███ █▀ ▄████▀ █████▄▄██ ██████████ ████ ███▄ \n";
std::cout << " ███ ███ ▀ \n\n";
// Introduction to the game : Print messages to the terminal
std::cout << "You are a mighty thief, and you finally found the heavy chest you were looking for in lord Dodley's mansion.\n";
std::cout << "Unfortunately, the chest can't be transported and there is an unusual lock, forcing you to enter correct codes numbers to open it...\n\n";
}
sadly, it returns this :
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ÔûÇÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûä ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûî ÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûÇ
ÔûÇÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûÇÔûÇÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûî ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûÇ ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûÉÔûêÔûêÔûê
ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûÇ ÔûäÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûäÔûäÔûäÔûäÔûêÔûêÔûÇ ÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûî ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûäÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûäÔûäÔûä ÔûÇÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûäÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûÇ
ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûÇÔûÇÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûÇÔûÇÔûÇÔûÇÔûÇ ÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûî ÔûÇÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûÇ ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûÇÔûÇÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûÇÔûÇÔûÇ ÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûÇÔûêÔûêÔûä
ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûÇÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûä ÔûÉÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûÇÔûêÔûêÔûê
ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûî Ôûä ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûäÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûä
ÔûäÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûÇ ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûÇ ÔûäÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûÇ ÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûäÔûäÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûêÔûä
ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûêÔûêÔûê ÔûÇ
You are a mighty thief, and you finally found the heavy chest you were looking for in lord Dodley's mansion.
Unfortunately, the chest can't be transported and there is an unusual lock, forcing you to enter correct codes numbers to open it...
The top of the chest displays something...
+ There are three numbers in the code
+ The codes add-up to: 14
+ The codes multiply to give: 36
Is there a way to correctly display the title, or should I use another art?
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Looking around it would appear that std::cout can only output ASCII characters to the terminal, so for example a £ symbol doesn’t have an ASCII code so it gets rendered as accented characters.
I’m assuming the particular character in your ASCII art also does not have an actual ASCII code and so can’t be displayed.
There are suggestions online to use UTF-8 to display the text and also suggestions to use std::wout to help but nothing really says how to do this properly.
This is the article I found in case it helps you find an answer:
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Mine is pretty lame compared to the other’s but I’m still proud I got it to work.
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Thanks for your reply ! 
I tried the std::wcout option but it still didn’t display correctly.
I also tried something like std::cout << char(219) << " " << char(219); wich works and displays “█ █” but it is wayyyyyy too long to replace all the art with things like that (and it becomes unreadable in the code).
So the most simple way was to replace the ascii art with something else :
/### / ### ### ##
/ ############/ # ### /#### #### /
/ ######### ### ## / ### /####/
# / # # ## ### / ##
## / ## ## ### /
/ ### ### /### ### /### ## /## ###/
## ## ###/ #### / ### / ### / ## / ### ###
## ## ## ###/ ## / ###/ ## / ### /###
## ## ## ## ## ## ## ## ### / ###
## ## ## ## ## ## ## ######## / ###
## ## ## ## ## ## ## ####### / ###
## # / ## ## ## ## ## ## / ###
### / ## ## ## ## ## #### / / ### /
######/ ### ### / ####### ### / ######/ / ####/
### ### ##/ ###### ##/ ##### / ###
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This is my ascii art for Triple X:
It was my first time doing ascii art, so I’m quite proud of it.
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Just so people don’t feel bad about putting up there’s here’s 1 of the worst examples you’ll find. I mean I really wanted to try and add a hacking tool as well… but I know if I start I’ll spend the next week perfecting it.
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My horrible sense of humor.
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, ,
,-`{-`/
,-~ , \ {-~~-,
,~ , ,`,-~~-,`,
,, { { } } }/ ; ,--/\ \ / / }/ /,/
; ,-./ \ \ { { ( /,; ,/ ,/
; / } }, --.___ / , ,/,/
| ,, ~.___,---} / ,,/ ,,; { { __ / ,/ ,,;
/ \ \ _,,{ ,{,;
{ } } /~\ .-:::-. (–, ;\ ,},; \\._./ / / , \ ,:::::::::, ~; \},/,; ,-=--…-/. ._ ;:::::::::::; ,{ /,; { / , ~ . ^~\:::::::::::<<~>-,,, -, ``,_ } /~~ . . ~ , .~~\:::::::; _-~ ;__,,-/\ /~, . ~ , ’ , . ::::;<<<~``` ``-,,__ ; / .\ / . ^ , ~ , . . ~\~ \\,,
/ , ,. ~ , ^ , ~ . . ~~~`, `-`--, \ / , ~ . ~ \ , ` . ^ ` , . ^ . , ` .`-,___,---,__
/ . ~ . \ ~ , . , , . ~ ^ , . ~ , .~---,___ / . , . ~ , \ ~ , . ^ , ~ . , ~ . ^ , ~ .-,
-Daniel Hunt-
The code to the secret genetic enhancer mechanism was hidden in the safe…
It was the most secure safe of that era, it required an unprecedented effort to crack this code…
a team of 15 people attempted to open the safe, unfortunately the security mechanism killed the majority of them…
it was left to one individual to make one last attempt to open the safe…
You need to enter the correct codes to continue…
There are 3 numbers in the code
The codes add up to: 9
The codes multiply to give: 24
Here’s my attempt!?
its not quite come out
Give yourself a pat on the back! This is amazing!
I chose one off https://www.asciiart.eu/ and I think I made it harder on myself than I needed to since it contained so many escape characters.
//ASCII Art
std::cout << " , , /\\ /\\ \n";
std::cout << " /( /\\ )\\ _\\ \\_/ /_\n";
std::cout << " |\\_||_/| < \\_ _/ >\n";
std::cout << " \\______/ \\|0 0|/\n";
std::cout << " _\\/_ _(_ ^ _)_\n";
std::cout << " ( () ) /`\\|V\"\"\"\"V|/`\\ \n";
std::cout << " {} \\ \\_____/ /\n";
std::cout << " () /\\ )=( /\\ \n";
std::cout << " {} / \\_/\\=/\\_/ \\ \n";
However, I think it turned out to be a good lesson in “escaping” escape characters and I’m happy with the result. If there was a better way to include those escape characters in the string I’d appreciate the feedback.
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Amazing stuff people! It’s really great to see. Keep it coming!
Did this with one of the ASCII generators (http://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=display&f=Graffiti&t=Type%20Something%20) on Google, looks pretty cool:
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