Animated scripts
*For animated scripts on YWOT, see Moving Text Objects
*See also: /tileAnimator, a unique world that allows users to create small ASCII animations
Scripts that create the illusion of movement by rapidly pasting and deleting text.
Unless stated otherwise, all gifs here are playing at real time.
FP
New Year/Christmas countdowns
FP's New Year and Christmas Countdowns feature multiple animated elements. See one of these events in action here.
Fireworks script
The animated fireworks script from the New Year countdown has also been used by spammers for more destructive purposes.
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Firework spam by a anon called ourworldoftest
Town building script
#scripting channel of the OWOT Discord(December 18th, 2021).Bomb script
A script that places a bomb emoji on the canvas, which explodes after a brief countdown and scatters all text in its vicinity.
#scripting channel of the OWOT Discord(December 20th, 2021).Mr.Guy
See here for a similar running stickman script from 2025.
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"Ballman," a stick figure following the physics cursor(July 7th, 2022) -
The DOOM algorithm for fire being run in OWOT(September 7th, 2022) -
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Metaballs(September 9th, 2025)
Lime
Lime Radio
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lime's radio in motion
Lime Elevator
Prophetbot
A bot created by TheUltimateKatanaMaster in July 2023. It is primarily a chat bot, though the name "Prophetbot" is also attached to an animated scrolling text display that would appear at Spawn from time to time.
Catha'vi
Roombas
In their early days on the site, Catha'Vi was known for creating ASCII roombas which would move around the canvas and delete everything in their paths.
These roombas were initially deployed on Your World of Text, where they were seen as a nuisance by much of the site's users. Catha'vi's roombas were inspired by an earlier script from YWOT which was also abhorred by the userbase.
The roombas suffered a similar level of backlash when they were eventually ported over to OWOT. On one instance, FP himself ordered Catha'vi to shut down their script, complaining that they needlessly erased text and left ugly patterns all over Spawn.
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March 27th, 2024
/movienight
/movienight was a world which hosted scheduled broadcasts of various movies.
It played films at ~5 fps using a grid of 80x25 characters. Graphics were initially rendered using colored full blocks(█), but later updated to a combination of half blocks(▀, ▄) and cell background colors for double the resolution. Subtitles were included to make up for a lack of sound, though they were often out of sync with the scenes.
/movienight shut down in August of 2024, but Catha'vi hinted one year later that the world might return sometime soon.
/movienight2
On August 18th, 2025, Catha'vi created a sequel to /movienight which rendered footage using octant characters. This newer world animated on a smaller grid(40x12 characters) in order to improve the frame rate(and also because octants allowed for higher resolutions to be achieved using fewer characters).
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/movienight2 premiering with a screening of A Minecraft Movie(August 19th, 2025)
Mr. Black
Mr. Black was active for only a few weeks in late 2024, but during that time he attracted a large amount of attention for deploying various animations at Spawn.
Toy Car
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The car leaving behind afterimages due to lag. -
Updated car made from octants.
SOP Animations
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Echoden
Helloyanis created something similar to the rocket script in 2022.
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Rocket script by fox
Daydun?
A set of animated spinning graphics that were occasionally broadcasted to Spawn, most recently in August of 2025. They were likely generated with an octant-based implementation of daydun random
These graphics were attributed to DayDun[1], a founding member of OWOT and its sister website OWOP.
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August 10th, 2025
Octant Video Player by ??????
Created by an anonymous user who used #CAD453 for their text color.
The script rendered footage from its creator's monitor using octants. Its frame rate and resolution were extremely low, limitations which the creator blamed on Spawn's excessive ratelimit.
FP color banned the creator of the video player after they repeatedly used it to stream porn at spawn. This proved to be ineffective, and the user would resume their illicit broadcast a few days later.
The player was also used to play less graphic pieces of media, including TV shows like Breaking Bad and Beavis and Butthead. Other times the creator would simply livestream themselves browsing social media or scrolling around OWOT itself.
The creator briefly considered releasing the script to the public, but decided not to after being convinced that bad actors would use it to lag the canvas.
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Livestreaming OWOT in OWOT(August 16th, 2025)(Sped up 5x) -
OWOTception(August 16th, 2025)
e_g.
e_g., also knowns as Meowcer, is a veteran scripter within the community.
/orpvpboss
Inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH951OcqqYY.
/orpvpboss was an interactive game that allowed users to play a Candybox-esque side scroller. It was released by e_g. on October 18th, 2025.
Users could use comu links to control the player character, executing actions such as moving left/right, attacking and defending. There was also an admin panel that let players spawn enemies, adjust healthbars, and increase/decrease difficulty.
Three enemy types existed:
- Red stick figures that moved from right to left. These enemies would taunt the player and call them a noob during a game over.
- Clicking the "defend" comu link placed a barrier in front of the player character, which would block attacks from the red stickmen and gave the player time to recover health.
- Planes that dropped bombs as they passed overhead.
- Clicking the "up" comu link placed a barrier above the player character, which protected against bombs being dropped from overhead.
- A massive (compared to other enemies) braille image of a Minecraft zombie that moved from right to left and bulldozed everything in its path.
- These enemies had an absurd amount of health and are mostly intended as an absurd gag, i.e. impossible to defeat.
There was also a score(tick) system that constantly increased so long as the player character was alive. On the night of the world's release, e_g. and Falling1 were able to achieve a high score of 1378 without cheating using the admin panel.
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Spawning massive amounts of enemies(Sped up 4x)
Pou
NextOS
Scripts by NextOS.
Nossia News
Another scrolling text script.
Stickman
A purple stickman that runs around the canvas and destroys text by firing projectiles.
/lifetest
/lifetest was created on November 27th, 2025 by gimmickCellar. It hosted several variations of Conway's Game of Life.
Miscellaneous
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Full block video player from March 7th, 2021 -
By Hello(December 15th, 2021) -
By Hello(December 25th, 2021) -
Snake game from /funbox(Sped up) -
From a bug with CCL's paint script(April 13th, 2025) -
Jetpack Guy by Guest-1052 using his text mover(April 30th, 2025) -
Half block video player by StormXXBoy(August 16th, 2025) -
Cursor script by Falling1(November 5th, 2025) -
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Created by Haster(November 12th, 2025) -
November 14th, 2025 -
November 15th, 2025(Sped up 20x) -
November 22nd, 2025(Sped up 5x) -
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December 2nd, 2025(Sped up 10x)
Trivia
- Animated scripts also exist in Your World of Text—with the most notable example being the infamous Roomba—though they tend to be much slower due to the site's lower rate limits.
- Animation is technically possible on Our World of Pixels but faces similar constraints as YWOT.
- Bad Apple has been animated multiple times on all three canvases.
- As of 2025 no one has ever attempted to run DOOM in OWOT, though Guest-1052 one suggested that it could be done by porting msdos ASCII DOOM 1999 into the site. On another note, Catha'vi's world /doomwad contains the entirety of doom.wad encoded in octants; the world contains 3 mb of data and is roughly 246 coordinates long.
Notes
- ↑ Awaiting confirmation