DWARF FORTRESS

[pharoph]

eternally sticky. untill the internet goes down....

[lurker]

It doesn't need to be a sticky; it lives eternally either way. But please stop trolling the poor topic.

[SwiftSpear]

It stays a sticky, since I think OT is a good place to showcase other high quality freeware games, and DF is own and win.

[Michilus_nimbus]

To bump things up, something funny just happened over here.
A while ago an Axedwarf was carrying around her baby when an ambush hit. Both of them lost a leg. Now, the baby went berserk, triggering this series of events:

Minkot Tulonegul, Child has gone berserk!
Ral Tostetur, Axedwarf cancels Rest: Interrupted by Child.
Minkot Tulonegul, Child has been struck down.
Ral Tostetur, Axedwarf is more experienced.

[SinbadEV]

I laughed out loud for real.

[SwiftSpear]

Dwarf forts owns :D

[Ixoran]

Forgive me for not reading 28 pages.
But um, why has no one attempted a basic tiled interface for DF like nethack?
Or have they?
Or would it require like 34543876912 different tiles, and no one is that crazy...

But thanks for reminding me I wanted to try this game!
:D

[SinbadEV]

Yes there is a tiled interface, it can replace the game font with full-color tiles along with replacing specific creature and dwarf types with custom icons

[SwiftSpear]

Forgive me for not reading 28 pages.
But um, why has no one attempted a basic tiled interface for DF like nethack?
Or have they?
Or would it require like 34543876912 different tiles, and no one is that crazy...

But thanks for reminding me I wanted to try this game!
:D

It has been done... I can't remember where, but you can find it somewhere on the DF wiki... I don't use them myself, personally.

[Ixoran]

http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Graphics
http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Tilesets

So yeah. thanks.
I dunno. I play too many games, so sometimes having easy graphical cues helps me get started.

Like I played nethack tiled for the first month or so, now, I just play whatever I'm in the mood for.

Thanks a bunch.

[SinbadEV]

I use Herrbdog 16x16 characters and no graphics sets.

[Erom]

I actually made my own character set (20x20), but I also do not use graphics sets.

I've been thinking of doing graphics just for the other major races though (Human, Elf, Goblin, Kobold), making them look basically just like ascii characters. Dwarves are smiley faces with beards, so I was thinking of making Elves smiley faces with ears, Humans plain smiley faces, goblins smiley faces with fangs, and kobold... I dunno, probably just reuse the goblin face.

[SinbadEV]

Ooh... a 20x20 Would be great... goblins have big noses and kobolds are reptillian... can I get that 20x20 so I can try it out?

[Felix the Cat]

I like DF in pure ASCII - I even avoid tilesets that have single-use characters replaced with graphical representations. I can't seem to avoid using a tileset that replaces the smilies with bearded smilies, though...

[SwiftSpear]

I like DF in pure ASCII - I even avoid tilesets that have single-use characters replaced with graphical representations. I can't seem to avoid using a tileset that replaces the smilies with bearded smilies, though...

Just don't start the game in fullscreen to solve that problem.

[url_00]

This.
Game.
Rocks.

[Ixoran]

This.
Game.
Rocks.

Heck yes it does.
So much so it's kept me from testing more for s'44 and I'm reading the DF dev logs instead of the Spring Dev logs.... I NEED BALANCE AAAAGH!

[url_00]

This.
Game.
Rocks.

Heck yes it does.
So much so it's kept me from testing more for s'44 and I'm reading the DF dev logs instead of the Spring Dev logs.... I NEED BALANCE AAAAGH!

Lol.
I GOTZ IDEAZ
DWARF FORTRESS MODZ FOR SPRINGZZZ!!

jk

[pharoph]

F**K YEAH
THAT WOULD BE AWSOME
if somebody was willing to make it...

[Mars]

F**K YEAH
THAT WOULD BE AWSOME
if somebody was willing to make it...

If you take all the energy spent in this thread, you will be done in no time :D