Devlog and articles from Glyph Dynasty, an ASCII city builder of ancient China: milestones, how the text graphics work, and the history behind the campaign. https://glyphdynasty.com/news/ 2026-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 Glyph Dynastyhttps://glyphdynasty.com/ https://glyphdynasty.com/icon-192.png https://glyphdynasty.com/news/games-like-pharaoh-caesar-3-zeus/ 2026-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-24T00:00:00+00:00

Games like Pharaoh, Caesar III and Zeus: a guide to walker-based historical city builders, old and new, and where Glyph Dynasty, set in ancient China, fits in.

https://glyphdynasty.com/news/great-wall-grand-canal-terracotta-army/ 2026-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-24T00:00:00+00:00

How the Great Wall, the Grand Canal and the terracotta army are built stage by stage in Glyph Dynasty, and what the real history of each monument says.

https://glyphdynasty.com/news/xia-shang-zhou-qin-han-history/ 2026-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-24T00:00:00+00:00

Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han: what is known about each dynasty and how the Glyph Dynasty campaign turns two thousand years of Chinese history into a city builder.

https://glyphdynasty.com/news/how-we-draw-a-city-with-text/ 2026-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-24T00:00:00+00:00

A readable look at the ASCII graphics of Glyph Dynasty: hand-typed 16×8 drawings, a colour map per character, a 3/4 view, WebGL2 light and shadow, and night.

https://glyphdynasty.com/news/roadmap-early-access/ 2026-10-24T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-24T00:00:00+00:00

The Glyph Dynasty roadmap after 0.9: playtests, the Steam demo and Early Access, then festivals, races, canals, the Tang and Song dynasties. Order, not dates.

https://glyphdynasty.com/news/steam-demo-next-fest/ 2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00

What the Glyph Dynasty demo contains: the first three Xia missions, achievements and Steam Cloud, progress that carries over, and a plan for Steam Next Fest.

https://glyphdynasty.com/news/seasons-weather-spring-festival/ 2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00

Weather by month, a wave of lanterns at dusk and Chinese New Year with red lanterns and fireworks: how the seasons came to Glyph Dynasty, an ASCII city builder.

https://glyphdynasty.com/news/city-builder-disasters-flood-fire-locusts/ 2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00

In Glyph Dynasty a flood comes as a wave, fire runs across the roofs and locusts eat the fields before your eyes. How the disasters work and how to defend.

https://glyphdynasty.com/news/capture-mode-show-glyphs-txt/ 2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00

Three tools for making ASCII art from your city in Glyph Dynasty: capture mode on F10, Show glyphs on the ` key, and saving any view as a plain text file.

https://glyphdynasty.com/news/co-op-city-builder-league-of-cities/ 2026-10-22T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-22T00:00:00+00:00

How online co-op works in Glyph Dynasty: 2–4 players, a city each, gifts and trade pacts, and a shared monument no one can finish alone. In development.

https://glyphdynasty.com/news/ascii-art-16x8-tiles/ 2026-10-20T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-20T00:00:00+00:00

The day every tile of Glyph Dynasty went from 10×5 to 16×8 characters: what changed in the ASCII art, why the old pictures stayed, and version 0.9.

https://glyphdynasty.com/news/ancient-china-city-builder-in-text/ 2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00 2026-10-19T00:00:00+00:00

Day one of Glyph Dynasty, a Chinese city builder game where every roof, field and cart is made of text characters. What the ancient China prototype could do.