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CibbuanoNewest release of Dwarf Fortress available!
July 21st 2008 22:13
Finally, after months of waiting, the newest release of Dwarf Fortress is out!
Dwarf Fortress has been mentioned here before, but I'll launch into the description yet again: it's a free game that lets you generate a realistic world, filled with monsters and elves, allowing you to command a group of dwarves, etching out a fortress in the wilderness.
Sure, that doesn't sound special, but get this: it has no graphics, using text to signify the terrain and living creatures.
Appealing? No... I suppose not from that description. Still, the game is one of the most rabidly fanboyed indie games out there... why?
Dwarf Fortress allows for a stupid amount of detail and realism. I had a hunter chase a pack of elephants with his faithful dogs. The elephants murdered them all, but, sadly, a puppy came chasing after its mother. The elephants killed the puppy, too, but one of my brewers was attached to the puppy, got depressed and refused to work. Incredible!
It's a brilliant, endless game. I've restarted over 50 times, each time, getting more excited about finding what the game has to offer...
The new release adds history and armies to the game - not something you can interact with, but fleshes out the wonderful complexity of the world:
Incredible! Remember, the game created that story for no other reason than to have it in the world. You don't need to know this, but you can find it.
Dwarf Fortress has been mentioned here before, but I'll launch into the description yet again: it's a free game that lets you generate a realistic world, filled with monsters and elves, allowing you to command a group of dwarves, etching out a fortress in the wilderness.
Sure, that doesn't sound special, but get this: it has no graphics, using text to signify the terrain and living creatures.
Appealing? No... I suppose not from that description. Still, the game is one of the most rabidly fanboyed indie games out there... why?
Dwarf Fortress allows for a stupid amount of detail and realism. I had a hunter chase a pack of elephants with his faithful dogs. The elephants murdered them all, but, sadly, a puppy came chasing after its mother. The elephants killed the puppy, too, but one of my brewers was attached to the puppy, got depressed and refused to work. Incredible!
It's a brilliant, endless game. I've restarted over 50 times, each time, getting more excited about finding what the game has to offer...
The new release adds history and armies to the game - not something you can interact with, but fleshes out the wonderful complexity of the world:
"The high priest of the god of revenge came down the stairs, and he was an elf with a human name. I talked to him and learned that both of his parents had goblin names, and his grandparents had elven names. So I guessed that his grandparents had been abducted and that the humans had then liberated the tower, placing the goblin-named parents under human control before they had their child. This was more or less correct, but a bit more happened.
So, way back when, the demon was causing all sorts of trouble, fighting both the humans and the elves and destroying their cities. This went on for 40 years -- an elf managed to tear off the demon's nose about halfway through this rampage, but he couldn't finish the job because he had lost a limb in the fight before the nose-removal and lost the rest of his limbs afterward, prior to being burned to death. Eventually the demon was shot in the year 45 and the humans took over the goblin tower. Many of the goblins fled into the mountains, and others were enslaved, including some of their abductees."
So, way back when, the demon was causing all sorts of trouble, fighting both the humans and the elves and destroying their cities. This went on for 40 years -- an elf managed to tear off the demon's nose about halfway through this rampage, but he couldn't finish the job because he had lost a limb in the fight before the nose-removal and lost the rest of his limbs afterward, prior to being burned to death. Eventually the demon was shot in the year 45 and the humans took over the goblin tower. Many of the goblins fled into the mountains, and others were enslaved, including some of their abductees."
Incredible! Remember, the game created that story for no other reason than to have it in the world. You don't need to know this, but you can find it.
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