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Dwarf Fortress - Eschatos - 07-20-2008
Anyone wanna play a Boatmurdered style game? All the cool kids are doing it. Basically one person starts it, plays for a year, and then hands it off to the next person. And if you haven't played DF before you automatically fail.
Read here:
http://fromearth.net/LetsPlay/Boatmurdered/
Download here:
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
Help here:
http://dwarf.lendemaindeveille.com/index.php/Main_Page
Even if you're not interested in playing read the Boatmurdered story. It's the funniest game story I've ever read.
Re: Dwarf Fortress - Tragic Hero - 07-20-2008
Im in. I have to get back to playing Dwarf fortress though. All those updates really throw me off.
Re: Dwarf Fortress - Eschatos - 08-04-2008
So no one wants to but us two? Laym. Maybe I'll just create a community fortress where I name everyone after people here and post the story.
Re: Dwarf Fortress - Luca Shoal - 08-04-2008
Go for it :V.
I tried to play it, failed miserably. I can't play Nethack either. I just suck at games with a huge number of keyboard commands like those :I
Re: Dwarf Fortress - chronomaster - 08-04-2008
I despise games that need their own college courses to play. :V
However, I'm trying to learn this one.
Re: Dwarf Fortress - Tragic Hero - 08-04-2008
(08-04-2008, 08:57 AM)Eschatos link Wrote: So no one wants to but us two? Laym. Maybe I'll just create a community fortress where I name everyone after people here and post the story.
Some people just don't want to think. Although I do agree that Dwarf fortress does require a lot of research to get it all running but once you do it becomes as easy as breathing.
Re: Dwarf Fortress - Luca Shoal - 08-05-2008
ffffffffff. Damn your eyes Esch. I was having fun >:C.
But...the location I have has NO trees. Plenty of water at least. Guess I gotta wait for a caravan, huh? *sets off to build a fuckton of stone trade goods*
Re: Dwarf Fortress - Eschatos - 03-16-2009
bump for Surf
Re: Dwarf Fortress - Surf314 - 03-16-2009
I just tried it and I likes it. Crazy ass game is crazy, the depth of things you can do in this game is unreal. May explain why the graphics are stuck in ASCII though. I'd recommend one of eschatos' pretty tilesets.
Re: Dwarf Fortress - at0m - 03-18-2009
Link to the story? I'm not good with computer.
[edit] Nvm, thought your first link was an explanation on how to play, and its actually a narrative of wtf is going on in the game they're passing around. [/edit]
Re: Dwarf Fortress - Dave - 03-18-2009
hard to play
Re: Dwarf Fortress - Luca Shoal - 03-18-2009
(07-20-2008, 11:45 AM)Eschatos link Wrote: Read here:These two are also Good reads.
http://fromearth.net/LetsPlay/Boatmurdered/
Deadocean, a learning Fortress
Tallabored, the sequel of sorts, to Boatmurdered
Re: Dwarf Fortress - Eschatos - 03-18-2009
(03-16-2009, 11:12 AM)Surf314 link Wrote: I just tried it and I likes it. Crazy ass game is crazy, the depth of things you can do in this game is unreal. May explain why the graphics are stuck in ASCII though. I'd recommend one of eschatos' pretty tilesets.
I highly recommend this one. You can actually see everything that's going on without knowing what all the symbols mean, and it's really pretty. Dunno if it works on macs, but it's easy to use on PC.
Re: Dwarf Fortress - at0m - 03-18-2009
(03-18-2009, 07:55 PM)Eschatos link Wrote: [quote author=Surf314 link=topic=901.msg71655#msg71655 date=1237219966]
I just tried it and I likes it. Crazy ass game is crazy, the depth of things you can do in this game is unreal. May explain why the graphics are stuck in ASCII though. I'd recommend one of eschatos' pretty tilesets.
I highly recommend this one. You can actually see everything that's going on without knowing what all the symbols mean, and it's really pretty. Dunno if it works on macs, but it's easy to use on PC.
[/quote]holy crap if it looked like that i might actually be convinced to play it.
Re: Dwarf Fortress - Eschatos - 03-19-2009
(03-18-2009, 10:55 PM)at0m link Wrote: [quote author=Eschatos link=topic=901.msg72063#msg72063 date=1237424132]
[quote author=Surf314 link=topic=901.msg71655#msg71655 date=1237219966]
I just tried it and I likes it. Crazy ass game is crazy, the depth of things you can do in this game is unreal. May explain why the graphics are stuck in ASCII though. I'd recommend one of eschatos' pretty tilesets.
I highly recommend this one. You can actually see everything that's going on without knowing what all the symbols mean, and it's really pretty. Dunno if it works on macs, but it's easy to use on PC.
[/quote]holy crap if it looked like that i might actually be convinced to play it.
[/quote]
It does look like that.
Re: Dwarf Fortress - Luca Shoal - 03-19-2009
I dun downloaded that to put on my Netbook :V
Re: Dwarf Fortress - Surf314 - 03-19-2009
For Mac users:
go here. http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev_now.html Scroll down, download the 01/09 Mac-native version of DF. Unzip it and place it in its own folder. Now, take the graphical edition you have right there, and overwrite 01/09's /data/init folder, /data/art folder, and /raw/graphics folder with the Mike Mayday edition versions of those. Don't paste anything else- the .exe, the dwarfmanager folder, especially not any of the .dlls or other files.
now, open the terminal and run "sh df" from the folder, and it should work. Whatever that means, I don't have a Mac. Toady says that how one gets the Mac version working though.
This should give you a native Mac version of 40d9, the latest Dwarf Fortress, with Mike Mayday's tileset and init settings.
Re: Dwarf Fortress - Surf314 - 03-19-2009
The tile set actually makes it a lot more enjoyable. I'm working on not messing up my 3rd fortress.
Re: Dwarf Fortress - Surf314 - 03-20-2009
http://afteractionreporter.com/2009/02/09/the-complete-and-utter-newby-tutorial-for-dwarf-fortress-part-1-wtf/
That's a really good startup tutorial for your first game.
Re: Dwarf Fortress - ZargonX - 04-23-2009
Wrote up a little piece on Spectacle Rock about my last month playing this game. I blame you guys.
http://www.spectaclerock.com/2009/04/23/working-in-a-dwarf-mine-going-down-down-down/