Unfortunately the ascii and pixels backends are distint in my code, so for example I cannot use the ascii animations with the rest of the pixels backend. As of now, the animations are just not there at all.. Also I did release in a partly-done state, I bet players would complain that some stuff is not there or incomplete. So it's a tradeoff between polished content and frequent updates :-(
Also at the moment, I miss quite a few sprites for monsters in the pixels backend. I need to negotiate with my pixels artist to do them before being able to release anything with the pixels backend (I mean: otherwise some different monsters would have the same sprite, urgh..)..