Dwarf Fortress

[Ubergeek87]

YES! I love Dwarf Fortress. Isn't there supposed to be a rather large update coming soon?

Dwarf Fortress is indeed the best game in the world. AND ITS DONATIONWARE.

I mean it when I say its the best, its better then EVERY SINGLE MAINSTREAM GAME IN THE WORLD.

Don't let its graphics fool you, its better.

Oh and not to mention, Tarn Adams, the developer has such an awesome free game that he quit his job to live off the donations.

[Ubergeek87]

Originally Posted by Rilder

Don't let its graphics fool you

[kiwi_2005]

I can't find the download link on that site i see one but its 2008 is that the latest?

I see on his page the donations hes getting Man im in the wrong job.

February Donations: $1452.57
January Donations: $2291.50
December Donations: $4762.98
November Donations: $5122.29
October Donations: $1759.27

[Safe-Keeper]

As for the download... here you go, should have linked to the site itself right away.

http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/838...ixfortress.jpg

Soooo true!

I can't find the download link on that site i see one but its 2008 is that the latest?

Yeah, he's been working on a huge rework since then, scheduled to be released Any Time Now (he's basically mopping up bug fixes and whatnot, it'll probably be out in weeks or a month or two). There's 40d16, then there's 17-19 which are basically tiny graphics fixes or something.

I see on his page the donations hes getting Man im in the wrong job.

February Donations: $1452.57
January Donations: $2291.50
December Donations: $4762.98
November Donations: $5122.29
October Donations: $1759.27

ya i no rite?

Oh and not to mention, Tarn Adams, the developer has such an awesome free game that he quit his job to live off the donations.

I was wondering about that -- whether he had a day job on the side. I actually really like that he's done that, it'll make him far more likely to keep working on it.

If there's one feature I really like (other than the incredibly kind of black humour you develop from the game's brutality and the crazy things it does because of its alpha state), it's the fact that the game, and its residents, keep track of history. There's a mode called "Legends" which lists every notable event and person in the game, but more intriguing is the engraving system. You can smooth natural walls to make them more attractive and increase room value, generating happy thoughts, but you can also engrave them -- and dwarves engrave walls the same way humans did 3000 years ago: they tell stories. Sure, there's random images of mountains and mushrooms and lizards and whatnot (though even these are based on the engraver's experiences, and likes/dislikes), but predominately, engravings are used to record events before and during the fortress' existence. Click on one wall portion and it'll say something like "This is an image of a dwarf and dwarves. The image represents the dwarf [name here]'s rise to power in the civilization [name] in the year 102". Your dwarves have a big fight with goblin invaders? Expect engravings of dwarves and goblins fighting. This way, you can actually, if you want to, download another player's fortress save and get a rough sense of what it's been through by looking at its walls.

Just a pity there isn't a visualizer that actually lets you walk around in the fortress, with decent graphics. Nothing wrong with Stonesense and VisualFortress (or for that matter being able to visit your own fortress as an adventurer in the "roguelike mode"), but just hovering through the place with a magic camera isn't as immersing as actually "being there".

[Ubergeek87]

You can get the latest version HERE or HERE

edit:bah, too slow

[kiwi_2005]

thanks guys will try this out.

[Safe-Keeper]

Oh, and do make use of the tutorial. Although it comes packaged with an earlier version of DF with a slightly different approach to certain things (mostly UI and hot key-wise, as far as I can tell), it's an indispensable resource for newcomers as the alpha stage UI of Dwarf Fortress is about as transparent as a clear glass window (/Dwarf Fortress inside joke).

[Lionclaw]

Thanks, I didn't know of this game. Looks very interesting!

I'm currently reading the Boatmurdered AAR.