This is a collaboration between oldtopman and jamiebell.
oldtopman wrote all of the code, providing some rather clever tricks, but ran out of time before he could cure cancer.
Jamie wrote all of the music, and failed to finish recording the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra before our time ran out.

oldtopman: I've been into ascii for almost a year now. There's a certain elegance to be had when there's nothing there but imagination. Not that it looks bad either, lots of information can be said in a small space when you know what corresponds to a letter.

Jamie: I dug making the sound effects and music for this! I made the all of the "in-computer" sound effects exclusively using Pro Tools's signal generator, layering square/sawtooth waves and white noise, which was a super fun exercise in manually doing what sfxr could do in a single click (heh!). The music uses samples from a Final Fantasy 6 soundfont run through Kontakt 5, and I really think when that FF6 timpani comes in, there's an otherwise buried part of my childhood that rushes back with each hit. Pretty cool to have these instruments of mass nostalgia at my fingertips, I love it! I don't really know what else to put here but please enjoy the battles! :)