#Dwarf fortress ascii screenshot update#

Birth, death (to the extent it wasn't handled before), marriages, site foundation as well as reclaims, basic succession and appointments/etc., invasions, as well as some more detail beyond world gen, like patrols, banditry and animal population handling.

World activation! There are a few things that aren't active, like megabeast invasions, but lots of world gen actions made it into the game.

#Dwarf fortress ascii screenshot update#

I am excited!Īnd the two year long update is live! Update changes: The StoneSense thread on DF forums makes it seem like this thing is currently buggy as all hell, so it might require some time to really be functional, but holy shit, we could finally have a real graphical interface to DF if this works out, and the controls are bearable. Well, recently some guy developed a tool to hook the whole thing into the game itself, and they've come up with an overlay version of StoneSense now that actually serves as an isometric graphical interface to the game, that you can use to control everything as well, at least according to this article: It used to be a graphic visualizer, which ran in a separate window and showed whatever was happening in DF in an isometric 2D perspective. First, there is a very beautiful (relatively) new tileset available called Obsidian, which for me, has replaced Phoebus as the best looking one so far:Īnd then, some of you might have seen the StoneSense utility for DF before. That is reason enough to be excited, but if you are not hardcore enough to play it in ASCII (like me), some excellent news on that front as well.

THERE IS A THIRD MODE TOO WHICH FOCUSES ON YOUR DWARVES GOING ON A RECLAMATION JOURNEY TO GET SOME ANCESTORIAL FORTRESS YOU'VE BUILT ON A PREVIOUS GAME BACK FROM THE HOLDS OF GOBLINS AND OTHER MONSTERS.įIGHTING BOTH HUNGER, THE WILDLIFE OUTSIDE, THE MONSTERS INSIDE AND THEMSELVES, BUILDING UP A FORTRESS IS NOT AN EASY TASK.So DF2014 is coming out soon, probably this or next week, with over two years of stuff in it.

(A wrestling match against a cyclop is not going well. WHICH DIDNT END WELL AND HAVE BECOME INHABITED BY ORCS AND OTHER FILTH, TRAPS, BUILT BY YOUR ANCESTORS MIGHT BE ON EVERY STEP ON THESE FORTRESSES. BUT AFTER THE INITIAL ASCII SHOCK YOULL FIND THAT THIS GAME IS PURE AND ACTUALLY _EASY_ TO PLAY DESPITE THE COMPEXITY OF THE ENGINEĪND IF THIS WASNT ENOUGH AWESOME FOR A SINGLE GAME, YOU CAN PLAY A ADVENTURE MODE, TAKING UP A SINGLE DWARF TO WANDER AROUND THE WORLD, YOU CAN EVEN VISIT CITIES YOU'VE BUILT ON YOUR PREVIOUS GAMES! SOME WHICH ARE WORKING AND SOME. THE GAME IS REALLY HARD AT FIRST, FIRST TIME I PLAYED I HAD TO ASK A FRIEND WHERE THE MOUNTAIN WAS(LOL). THERE IS ENGINEERING, YOU CAN BUILD TRAPS AND BRIDGES AND EVEN STEAM-WEAPON OR TORTURE CHAMBERS >:D THE DWARVES ARE EACH UNIQUE, HAVING FEARS AND DREAMS AND OWN PSYCHOLOGIES

THE GAME ITSELF HAS MANY AWESOME ELEMENTS MAKING IT FEEL LIKE A REAL WORLD. (A screen showing up one of the 3 pages of tasks/professions the dwarves can perform.) INITIALLY YOULL HAVE 7 DWARVES TO BEGIN WITH AND YOU GET TO SUIT THEM WITH NECESSARY ITEMS BEFORE EMBARKING. THIS GAME FOCUSES ON DWARVES TRYING TO BUILD UP A FORTRESS INSIDE A MOUNTAIN. (CREATING THE WORLD WHEN YOUR PLAYING FIRST TIME MIGHT TAKE A WHILE(1-15 MINS DEPENDING ON YOUR HARDWARE SETUP), THIS IS BECAUSE THE GAME IS ACTUALLY CREATING A _WORLD_ WITH CONTINENTS AND SEAS FOR YOU TO PLAY IN, SO BE PATIENT,YOULL ONLY NEED TO DO THIS ONCE.)ĭWARF FORTRESS IS A ROGUELIKE GAME WITH 2 MODES OF PLAY, ILL FOCUS ON THE ONE I THINK IS FUNNIER IN THIS POST.ĭwarf Fortress is a gamefeaturing two modes of play, a distinct, randomly-generated world (complete with terrain, wildlife and legends), gruesome combat mechanics and vicious hordes of elephants. to the right is a newly built, soon-to-be workshop area, personal quarters to the north and storage area on the bottom. in the middle is a meeting hall where the dwarves are currently taking a break. *IF YOU DONT LIKE ASCII GAMES THEN DONT COME HERE WHINING ABOUT THE GRAPHICS* INSPIRED BY THE FREEWARE GAME THREAD, I THOUGHT THIS GAME IS JUST TOO STUNNING TO DESERVE A THREAD OF ITS OWN. I KNOW ISAAC AND TOMBOM PLAY THIS BUT THIS IS SIMPLY TOO AWESOME OF A GAME.