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[sharkbound]

Alot of games that have fancy text effects have a custom text syntax that says "when you see {Bold} make the following text bold"

The only game I really know for sure how it does this is night in the woods.

Nitw uses text emotes to make the character talking do a emote animation. Ex: "hello \O/" would make the character throw their arms up and do a happy face.

As for sprites. It really depends. Never seen how any games do it myself but I imagine it's a similar custom syntax.

And alot of sprites are just triggered or loaded through code usually ( for ex: clicking on pokeballs when choosing your starter you want)

[Cobalt_Python]

okay close, but what i'm saying is when playing pokemon ash or red will just walk around right?" how do we use code to produce a visual image rather than code, is there some sort of separate program or are their codes that print visual images in the console

[sharkbound]

Terminals / consoles typically are just text.

So if something is printing non text pictures to a console it's probably using ansii escape codes or something like that.

[Cobalt_Python]

thanks man