ASCII Gunship: Shmup

Your gunship is made of characters. So is everything trying to kill it.

ASCII GUNSHIP is an arcade vertical shoot-em-up rendered entirely as a live terminal character grid. Every ship, bullet, boss and explosion is a glyph in a bright ANSI palette, with optional CRT scanlines.

Drag to fly. Your cannons never stop. Tap the bomb when the screen fills with fire.

BUILD A DIFFERENT GUNSHIP EVERY RUN
Clear a wave, then pick 1 of 3 upgrade cards: fire rate, orbiting drones, chain lightning levels, tail guns. 18 cards and 8 weapons, from VULCAN and LASER to TESLA ARC and PLASMA SNAKE.

BOSSES WORTH FIGHTING
Every fifth wave a multi-part ASCII boss fills the top of the terminal. Shoot off its turrets, survive three escalating gun phases, and salvage the credits.

A CAMPAIGN, THEN MORE
Fight through 5 sectors with their own procedural backdrops and enemy rosters, then loop them at MK-2 ferocity and beyond. Keep your chain multiplier alive up to x9.

THE HANGAR
Spend salvage on 8 gunships, each with its own passive and starting weapon, from the reliable RAPTOR to the drone-carrying PALADIN.

FEATURES
- Everything is text: real-time character-grid renderer, zero sprite art
- 8 weapons, 18 upgrade cards
- 5 multi-part bosses with destructible parts and 3-phase patterns
- 8 buyable glyph gunships with real passives
- 5 sectors + endless MK tiers, chain multiplier up to x9
- CADET / VETERAN / ACE difficulty, CRT scanline toggle
- Offline, private, no accounts, no tracking
- No ads, no paywalls. Every ship earnable in-game (optional tip jar)

From Anguished Studio. Fly. Fire. Pick a card. Beat your best.