Actually it was the other way around. It was originally a graphical game which deliberately used a set of bit-mapped tiles drawn from the CP437 (not ASCII!) font found on many old computers. It later grew the option to add in extra graphics, so that a dwarf or a cat is a picture of a dwarf or a cat rather than a colorized letter. In this mode it&#x27;s actually an OpenGL game, although it doesn&#x27;t do much with the hardware.<p>A release or two back it gained a true console mode which you can play on a real terminal.