Spring RTS Engine

http://store.steampowered.com/app/35480/




Sooo... apparently the new business model is:

-Find a Nifty Game Made By An Independent Developer
-Throw a Budget at a team to "copy it without copying it"
-Use the phrase "in the tradition of great games such as "Game That's Like the Game We Copied in some Trivial Way" and "Game We Copied" ".
- Profit!

That said... this game doesn't actually look anything like Dwarf Fortess beyond the "it's about dwarves and mining and has 2D tile based graphics"... can't tell if it looks fun... this kind of game needs a demo.

what is this post about exactly

it looks nothing like DF, i can tell just by looking at it that its tower defense

thank you for this content-free offering

edit : its not tower defense. http://youtu.be/5jRu9ckpw5A you're welcome

KaiserJ wrote:what is this post about exactly

To be perfectly frank when I saw the announcement for the game's release I thought "somebody has copied Dwarf Fortress and made it look pretty and is selling the idea out from under them" then I saw the game and realized it wasn't really at all like DF and thought about posting about it... but then I thought "OMG... it would be hilarious to post a thread with the title "Dwarfs!?" !!??" and couldn't stop myself.

Sigh. Dwarves.

Name fail.

All your base are belong to us.

Surely dwarf fortress is dwarfed by this towering offence. Problem is that darw fortress could eat three full gamedevelop teams including oversized budgets for breakfast and still be when its done, because its tremendous in gamedepth.

Dont know how this one guy manages to keep all his stuff in mind.

*yawn* ?

*yawn*

Looks primitive and boring...

it's a stupid shallow puzzle game that's trying to cash in on the awesomeness of dwarf fortress.

Why can other people rip of shamelessly and we dont? Oh, yes, they rip it from open source, and we the wild pirats, are fearfully watching our steps on the plank that is the world. Pervreverse World, isnt it?

Srsly, let us at least rip off other open source comunitys. We could steal open office, and call it spring office, and include it- or we rip some linuxinstall, and include.. FLOUR, this is no fun, we are meant to be the bad guys here.

I wouldn't mind someone doing a copy of DF, if it was better in the stuff that DF sucks at. But this seems like something else totally.

It needs dwarvish women with beards that you can hang on to.

Why can other people rip of shamelessly and we dont?

they dont have paranoic admins ?

Forboding Angel wrote:Sigh. Dwarves.

Name fail.

All your base are belong to us.

Didn't Tolkien introduce the plurals elves and dwarves (look at that, my spellchecker doesn't like it!) to differentiate himself from the traditional folklore?

KDR_11k wrote:

Forboding Angel wrote:Sigh. Dwarves.

Name fail.

All your base are belong to us.

Didn't Tolkien introduce the plurals elves and dwarves (look at that, my spellchecker doesn't like it!) to differentiate himself from the traditional folklore?

I always use Dwarves because "Dwarfs"(plural) sounds like "Dwarf's" (posessive)... wikipedia says it's a Tolkienism:

Dwarf(Middle-earth)#Spelling "Dwarves"

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