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ASCII Royale

Gaming — ASCII Royale is a terminal-based battle royale game that can be played over SSH
Gaming
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 24, 2026
Pulse 45.8 · 2/4
45.8
Pulse Index
2/4 families · real
-1.7
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
22
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
8
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 22 observations. Pulse momentum is negative over 30 days (-1.7) — observed activity is receding.

HTTP liveness

real
22 probes · Jun 13, 2026Aug 24, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 2 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 22 probesavg response 929 ms
Developer tractionreal
https://github.com/chad/ascii-royale
commit recency not yet snapshotted · github family active in Pulse
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
github.com
edge
direct origin
server
github.com
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

ASCII Royale's listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 24, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. Its Pulse Index is 45.8 of 100, built from 2 of 4 observed signal families. Observed footprint: 8 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Concordcommunicationtag-overlap100%56.0-1.4● live
Misedev-toolstag-overlap88%40.0+0.1● live
Femto: A fork of kilo (text editor)dev-toolstag-overlap88%40.0● live
vimhjkldev-toolstag-overlap80%9.9-1.4— unverified
FSMdev-toolstag-overlap80%47.7-0.9● live
Legionlinuxtuidev-toolstag-overlap78%49.4● live
Shittydev-toolstag-overlap78%56.1● live
Netmnt 0.2.0dev-toolstag-overlap75%40.0● live

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-24 13:14Z200github.comgithub.com1370alive
2026-08-13 13:45Z200github.comgithub.com982alive
2026-08-09 18:54Z200github.comgithub.com1449alive
2026-08-08 03:56Z200github.comgithub.com1978alive
2026-07-30 20:11Z200github.comgithub.com576alive
2026-07-26 16:52Z200github.comgithub.com477alive
2026-07-18 13:36Z200github.comgithub.com492alive
2026-07-13 13:24Z200github.comgithub.com830alive
2026-07-04 15:30Z200github.comgithub.com1520alive
2026-07-03 00:08Z200github.comgithub.com476alive
2026-06-28 12:48Z200github.comgithub.com1296alive
2026-06-24 13:18Z200github.comgithub.com563alive
2026-06-23 12:47Z200github.comgithub.com578alive
2026-06-22 12:46Z200github.comgithub.com418alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · ASCII Royale · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/hn-48509968-ascii-royale · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.