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Top 20 C Ascii Projects

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  1. astroterm

    A planetarium for your terminal! Explore stars, planets, constellations, and more, all rendered right in the command line—no telescope required. ✨🪐

    Project mention: I Made Zig Compute 33M Satellite Positions in 3 Seconds. No GPU Required | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-21

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  3. doom-ascii

    DooM in the terminal!

    Project mention: Destino: Doom in Your Terminal with Node.js | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-24

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  4. ansilove

    ANSI and ASCII art to PNG converter in C

  5. sssnake

    cli snake game that plays itself

  6. despacer

    C library to remove white space from strings as fast as possible

    Project mention: despacer: C library to remove white space from strings as fast as possible | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-13

  7. retrovoxel

    📺👽 3D voxel graphics engine on the terminal in standard C without third parties

  8. hasciicam

    (h)ascii for the masses! html refreshed ascii video cam

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  10. lbbs

    Lightweight BBS For Linux - Bulletin Board System server software

  11. img2ascii

    🏞️ A command-line tool for converting images to ASCII art

  12. ansi-art

    C++ ANSI🔥Art Renderer

  13. ascii-raytrace

    ray tracing on the command line

  14. treedude

    Clone of the mini-game from Superhot (by n-ivkovic)

  15. nuru

    Binary file format for ASCII/ANSI art. (by domsson)

  16. cassette_deck

    🖭 CLI gif recorder, simplified

  17. tsprite

    Convert Sprites to Windows escape sequences, optimized for Conhost games

  18. ConPlayer

    Plays videos in console

  19. ascii-render

    Header-only ASCII font renderer for embedded/SDL/terminal (by Ferki-git-creator)

  20. Win2Con

    Displays windows and allows you to use them in console

  21. asciifolding

    branchless asciifolding using lookup tables

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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  • despacer: C library to remove white space from strings as fast as possible

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 May 2026

  • Ask HN: What do you think of my rendering library ASCII embedd/SDL?

    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Aug 2025

  • C3 (a C-like programming language) hits 0.6.6

    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Jan 2025

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  • Another GPT-3 based AI assistant for the terminal

    2 projects | /r/commandline | 24 Dec 2022

  • A split layout where each half is identical but mirrored?

    1 project | /r/KeyboardLayouts | 16 Dec 2022

  • Text UI components like “ncurses”

    3 projects | /r/cpp | 29 Nov 2022
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Index

What are some of the best open-source Ascii projects in C? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 astroterm 2,070
2 doom-ascii 862
3 ansilove 431
4 sssnake 235
5 despacer 159
6 retrovoxel 107
7 hasciicam 103
8 lbbs 86
9 img2ascii 75
10 ansi-art 49
11 ascii-raytrace 29
12 treedude 20
13 nuru 18
14 ad 11
15 cassette_deck 9
16 tsprite 9
17 ConPlayer 9
18 ascii-render 5
19 Win2Con 2
20 asciifolding 1

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