ASCII art weapons

Matt Maldre / August 15, 2006 November 14, 2015 / 1 minute of reading / ASCII art ideas

Here’s a bunch of weapons made with one-line ascii art. They are handy to put into IMs and text messages.

>>---->                       Arrow/Dart
||||||[::]|||||||||||||       Belt
`=o==   o                     Cannon
-==|)-                        Crossbow
=-O *   *    *                The Enterprise firing photon torpedoes
=-O~~~                        The Enterprise firing phasers
O/////])===================== Light sabre
-|-------                     Sword
oxx)=----------               Sword
==-----------                 Whip

If you have any more weapons made with just keyboard characters, please leave ’em in the comments below.

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unlikelymoose

16 years ago

did you get the idea for this post from Gary, the person who left the 10,000th comment on your blog? Over at his blog he made a shark sword/sledgehammer/axe that looks like this:
|============EEEEEEE7

link to original shark sword/sledgehammer/axe: http://psycho-pigeon.livejournal.com/10259.html

unlikelymoose

16 years ago

i misinterpreted his “shark” and made my own that looks like this:
|=|=|=|===============EEEEEEE7

The “|” is the hammer “=” is the blade “E” is the handle “7” is the nub on the end of the handle.

But here’s Gary’s interpretation of his “shark”: Umm… You hold it from the left side… “7” Equals tip of blade “EEEEEEE” equals blade, and “============” indicates handle.

But good job regardless! Plus, Mine is harder and it goes in easier.

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Matt Maldre

16 years ago

I did not get this idea from Gary. I have a list of ASCII one-line art from awhile ago. I’m just posting the art in groups from time to time. You told me about Gary’s art and I was going to add it to the list, but I forgot.

To make the artwork on my page clear, I make the handle appear on the left, the blade on the right.

a sledge hammer:
|============EEEEEEE7

A sledge hammer with a nice handle
|O/////])============EEEEEEE7

A hammer with spikes and a nice handle
|O/////])============|=|=|=|

A sledgehammer with a cinder block at the end ala [url=http://www.mastercollector.com/neat/gijoe/orlando/figures/roadpig.jpg]G.I.Joe’s Road Pig[/url].
================E|-

Hmm, that cinder block looks wimpy. How about this one:
================[o|o]=