Animated scripts

*For animated scripts on YWOT, see Moving Text Objects

*See also: /tileAnimator, a 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

FP's New Year and Christmas Countdowns feature multiple animated elements. See one of these events in action here.

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  /owot/2024countdown
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  /owot/christmas2024

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

Lime

Lime Radio

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  lime radio
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  lime's radio in motion

Lime Elevator

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Catha'vi

/movienight

/movienight was a world hosted by Catha'Vi which hosted scheduled broadcasts of various movies.

It played films at a relatively smooth ~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 hosted several screenings throughout 2024, featuring movies such as:

• Shrek
• The Mario Movie
• The Minecraft Movie
• etc.

While the world was active, a voting system existed to decide which movies to play. There was also a Discord server dedicated to the page.

/movienight shut down in August of 2024, but Catha'vi hinted one year later that the world might return sometime soon.

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Mr. Black

Toy Car

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  Mr. Black's car in motion(Footage by Fox).
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  The car leaving behind afterimages due to lag.
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  Updated car made from octants.

SOP Animations

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  Sped up
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  Sped up

Echoden

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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.

These graphics were attributed to DayDun, a founding member of OWOT and its sister website OWOP.

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  August 9th, 2025
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  August 10th, 2025
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  August 10th, 2025

Octant Video Player by ??????

The video player running alongside two iterations of Daydun?'s rotating graphic(August 16th, 2025)

Color on vs color off(August 14th, 2025)

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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  August 14th, 2025
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  Livestreaming OWOT in OWOT(August 16th, 2025)(Sped up 5x)
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  OWOTception(August 16th, 2025)

Miscellaneous

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  Snake game from /funbox(Sped up)
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  Jetpack Guy(April 30th, 2025)
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  Half block video player by StormXXBoy(August 16th, 2025)

Trivia

• Animated scripts also exist on 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.