Dwarf Fortress

http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/

Dwarf fortress is an incredibly complex simulation game where you control a bunch of dwarves in their quest to carve out a fortress in the mountains,trying to avoid horrible death at the hands of tantrum spirals, magma, zombie carp, and the like. It`s incredibly fun but extremely newbie unfriendly, and has super basic graphics.

Does anyone else play it?

It's not a roguelike though, it's a civ building game, pretty much the only thing that it has in common with roguelikes are the ascii graphics, and theres no DOS emulator required, it uses opengl.

lol i tried this a year ago, its the most complex game ever created.

if you do decide to play this game, use this tileset, makes the game much easier to understand. plus it looks way better

http://mayday.w.staszic.waw.pl/df.php

Just looked at the screenshots, why anyone would want to play this crap is beyond me.DasVolks

Just looked at the screenshots, why anyone would want to play this crap is beyond me.DasVolks

Some of us actually think gameplay > graphics.

[QUOTE="DasVolks"]Just looked at the screenshots, why anyone would want to play this crap is beyond me.Delius

Some of us actually think gameplay > graphics.

I think that too.

I'll take back what I said, but I just don't know how you can play a game when it looks like that.

I know, I know...don't judge a book by it's cover.

The graphics are god awful, but the game is great, plus with the user made tilesets, it looks alot better.

What it looks like with the mike's mayday tileset.

The graphics are god awful, but the game is great, plus with the user made tilesets, it looks alot better.

What it looks like with the mike's mayday tileset.

boyofcheeese

Ok, that looks playable. What makes the game so fun/awesome?

How exactly does this work? I am intrigued.

I'm too lazy to sum up reasons why I love dwarf fortress, but this review gets the gist of it.

If you do decide to play, here is a really helpful tutorial.

How exactly does this work? I am intrigued.

athenian29

The graphics are god awful, but the game is great, plus with the user made tilesets, it looks alot better.

What it looks like with the mike's mayday tileset.

boyofcheeese

that's much better some actual graphics!!! I'm not one to pass up a great game cause of graphics but i don't think i could play an ascii game in this day and age and enjoy it.

and wierd to see nice game like this pop up the only person i know who play obscure games like this is yandere.

^Thanks for the run down, but how can all of that happen in a game with primitive graphics? And you say detailed physics? How?! You make the game sound awesome.DasVolks

Behind the primitive graphics, there rests a very detailed game, the game simulates liquid physics very well, such as hydrostatic water pressure, and there are plans for even better physic to be implemented.

If enough people want to play, maybe we should start a succesion game.

[QUOTE="DasVolks"]^Thanks for the run down, but how can all of that happen in a game with primitive graphics? And you say detailed physics? How?! You make the game sound awesome.boyofcheeese

Behind the primitive graphics, there rests a very detailed game, the game simulates liquid physics very well, such as hydrostatic water pressure, and there are plans for even better physic to be implemented.

If enough people want to play, maybe we should start a succesion game.

[QUOTE="boyofcheeese"]

[QUOTE="DasVolks"]^Thanks for the run down, but how can all of that happen in a game with primitive graphics? And you say detailed physics? How?! You make the game sound awesome.DasVolks

Behind the primitive graphics, there rests a very detailed game, the game simulates liquid physics very well, such as hydrostatic water pressure, and there are plans for even better physic to be implemented.

If enough people want to play, maybe we should start a succesion game.

Yeah, A 3d inteface would be epic, but I highly doubt its gonna happen anytime soon.

I tried to play Dwarven Fortress once, but I couldn't get into because the complicated ASCII characters. With the new tiles it looks much better. Maybe I'll try to play it again.