Once again, I delve back into the ASCII world... though this time with a twist. I'll start with a description of the game
The game is all about space exploration - find planets for your people to live on, find ancient ruins and strange devices, talk to and deal with (or combat) alien races. This sort of game has completely disappeared from the gaming market for quite a few years now... so this is somewhat of a nostalgic game
Now, I will describe the "twist". The game will indeed support 3D via OpenGL... but it will still be ASCII art. You will explore vast terrain in beautifully rendered height maps... all rendered back to ASCII characters. Fly around the universe in beautiful full 3D x's, t's, and other letters and characters. This is made possible through the use of aalib. Check it out, you may like it :)
Grab the source via subversion here, or the linux binary here