![]() To do this, you are started with seven dwarves who have some skill-set, which you determine (or not), a set of supplies you determine (or not) which hopefully includes at least one pick and one axe, and a cliff face at one of 50 locations you determine (or not).Since you effectively take the role of overlord, you give all the orders to your dwarves you designate areas to dig, cut out trees, put supplies/goods you tell them what to build, where to build it, and what they should do with it (for the most part). It is free, released by a hobbyist software developer called Bay 12 Games (and is currently in a very playable alpha.OverviewDwarf Fortress is an ASCII game where you are given overlord control of a bunch of dwarves in their quest to hollow out a mountain and build a new settlement for the greater glory of their randomly generated civilization (mine was called "The Lovely Tin Iron" when translated normally, it's Avalakruldatan). I'm just going to repost what BlindRobin posted on SA (this is a good beginners guide).quote:Dwarf Fortress is a bizarre fusion of roguelike and city-building sim. Anyway, what you do in adventure mode will eventually have far-reaching and major effect on the world, but for now you just sometimes die and become a legend along with whatever killed you, be it skippy the wonder groundhog or some giant cyclops.The other end is the fortress mode with is insanely complex but pretty cool. The adventure mode is the roguelike and it's pretty basic so far, but the combat messages are hilarious and the gore is awesome. You can either adventure or start a fortress. Once that's all done, you have your world.Then comes the game. maybe 1500 or so) and legends occur and regions are named cool things, like the Forest of Stabbing was in one of the SA guy's worlds. Then it'll generate wildlife and vegetation maps and, if there's a good balance (might take 200 tries) it'll go onto the next step: Legends.The game simulates the first thousand years (I forget the exact number. ![]() ![]() Then it determines the tile type by the values of the 4 traits and then runs 1000 iterations of rivers that only count for erosion, then another few hundred for actually rivers and more for lakes. Here's a link to a map it'll generate for you.It starts off with 4 fractal maps, elevation, rainfall, temperature, and "evil". The groundhog has bled to death.This game has the greatest combat system ever created by man. You break the grip of The groundhog's left rear leg on Your right hand. The groundhog's throat has been torn out! You shake The groundhog around by the throat! You latch on firmly to The groundhog's throat! So anyway, what does a prone dwarf with crippled arms do when confronted with a small rodent hell-bent on trying to kill him?You bite The groundhog in the head! Reviewing the combat log later would reveal that he had passed out from over-exertion five or six times trying to nibble me to death. The culprit was a little groundhog who was trying his damndest to kill me in my sleep. When I woke up, I was bleeding profusely and both of my arms were crippled, causing me to drop my spear and my shield. I took a little nap there, since the name sounded innocent enough. quote:I've been playing adventure mode to mess around before I tackle the Dwarf Fortress mode, and I've been having a blast.My dwarven spearman came upon some hills that were named something like The Joyous Hills of Knighting. It woke up in a haze, blearily hacked a few dying coughs, threw up bloody vomit, and finally gave in and died. I butchered a kobold, its guts spilled out of its stomach and it flew across the floor and it passed out, bleeding. Strodaylber, kobold has bled to death.This is probably the best combat exchange I've seen in a roguelike ever. The kobold is propelled away by the force of the blow! The kobold's right kidney has been broken! The kobold's entrails shoot out through the wound! Sididiflilgus, kobold has bled to death.This was accompanied by a superscript z landing on a tile next to the k and a coloring of the surrounding tiles a very satisfying red.You hack at The kobold in the lower body with your iron long sword! The right upper leg flies off in a bloody arc! ![]() I've played nethack but it's not like this.You hack at The kobold in the right upper leg with your iron long sword! I was going to post about this, but you beat me, so here are some snippets from the SA thread about fun times had in the adventure mode (the mini-roguelike that's half the game).quote:The combat messages and accompanying graphics in combat in this game are simply awesome.
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