diff --git a/dev-python/asciimatics/Manifest b/dev-python/asciimatics/Manifest
index 55539fd9c5..0865dbff21 100644
--- a/dev-python/asciimatics/Manifest
+++ b/dev-python/asciimatics/Manifest
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 DIST asciimatics-1.11.0.tar.gz 1544889 BLAKE2B 98492a3bef25331daf085bfd93e17a244cd70939d06ead1c4e6dfa546411e268b7c278b7e05046c42d59faf35d85c6c584663aac3566ef82e682740f9fa67fa4 SHA512 7703e29955c984cb091a1cfda01abf31ad108da0488d0dd1c941593689cc4ebb899565471d5d4396b910a9770e640e0cba835c4dac203bd1c4a853ce7dcaacbc
+DIST asciimatics-1.12.0.tar.gz 1569408 BLAKE2B ee8071e3f49c05adfe70fb41a91cd422ed92aac51fb8c7f05b22e62f543d5a6a9a382fe4bfc7e9ae9220264303879c722e467d74a3134df66a3f762eea63af9e SHA512 9c7e18079b5560256bc93c39d41852878b2e57ccadb515563ff5eaea0234fae77e5494e4bd6ef3ac5ab386cd49cc96f6c56336c8f9fa4321592d23eb3c857812
diff --git a/dev-python/asciimatics/asciimatics-1.12.0.ebuild b/dev-python/asciimatics/asciimatics-1.12.0.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5121dfe911
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-python/asciimatics/asciimatics-1.12.0.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_7 )
+inherit distutils-r1
+
+DESCRIPTION="Package for curses-like operations, text UIs and ASCII art animations"
+HOMEPAGE="https://pypi.org/project/asciimatics/ https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics"
+
+if [[ "${PV}" == 9999 ]]
+then
+	inherit git-r3
+	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics.git"
+else
+	SRC_URI="https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/archive/${PV}.tar.gz -> ${P}.tar.gz"
+	KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+fi
+
+LICENSE="Apache-2.0"
+SLOT="0"
+
+RESTRICT="mirror test"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	>=dev-python/pyfiglet-0.7.2[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	>=dev-python/pillow-2.7.0[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/wcwidth[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+	dev-python/future[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	sed -i -e "s/use_scm_version={/\0'fallback_version': '${PV}',/" setup.py
+}