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Feature: Eat your words
Chapter Two of The Brief and Incredibly Poetic Life of Bañec Hazyblockades: a Dwarf Fortress diary
We return to the exciting conclusion of the tale of Bañec Hazyblockades, a brave hero who set out to conquer the world of Dwarf Fortress with only the power of poetry. In last week's episode, our hero was attacked for no reason by a vicious, but apparently undernourished, archer. It looked like this was the end for Bañec, until suddenly - - he runs. He…
Feature: Pen =/= sword
The Brief and Incredibly Poetic Life of Bañec Hazyblockades: a Dwarf Fortress diary
This is a Dwarf Fortress adventurer mode journal, in which I live (and, perhaps die) by the poem. The goal is simple: try to survive and thrive in Adventurer mode of Dwarf Fortress by relying mostly on the poetry and language skills. Read on to hear the tragic riddle of Bañec Hazyblockades, poet of the Mortal Society of the Released Union, who sang her own…
Feature: Best game, worst interface
Dwarf Fortress and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Interface
Dwarf Fortress [official site] is probably the best game of all time. In Dwarf Fortress, there are sloth bears. In Dwarf Fortress, there are sloth bear men. In Dwarf Fortress, your dwarf can strangle a sloth bear man with its own intestines. In Dwarf Fortress, your dwarf can carve an image of herself strangling a sloth bear man with its own intestines into a bed.…
Feature: Great Odes
Dwarf Fortress is a titan of PC games, famous for among other things its complexity, its decades-long development plan and its procedural world generation. In light of some coming additions - procedural, culture-specific forms of poetry and dance - Adam and Graham decided to discuss why such seemingly minor detail is exciting and important.
"The mind has been rewritten quite a bit," starts one of the patch notes for the new Dwarf Fortress update. The first addition to the fantasy simulation game in two years, version 0.40.01 offers sweeping generation to world generation and simulation, combat and movement, fortresses, trees and, yes, the mind. Step below for a dive into the game's wonderful patch notes, and for more barely…
Dwarf Fortress is not as hard to play as you think it is, but there's no denying that its ASCII graphics lack modern clarity. Chances are that if you've played the game any time in the last two years, you did so not using a vanilla install, but by partnering the complicated fantasy simulation with third-party tools like DwarfTherapist or Stonesense. As of earlier this…
Gamasutra have just ran a long and illuminating interview with Tarn "Toady" Adams of Dwarf Fortress fame. Across ten pages, we deal with everything from the origins of the god Armok's name (It comes from a variable, Arm_ok, in an earlier game which kept track of your limbs), why they're doing this epic fantasy game anyway (A love of priests named Aaaa, obv) and its…
