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DWARF FORTRESS
Alex C:
It's gotten to the point where I actively avoid trying to think too terribly far ahead about things like that in dwarf fortress. God knows my dwarves will do something dumb and I"ll have less manpower than I expected to have anyway. May as well get as much done as possible as soon as possible.
Scandanavian War Machine:
You know what's kind of like Dwarf Fortress, but not really, and is totally fucking awesome?
Minecraft.
It's developed by one lone lunatic and is currently in Alpha. It has: procedurally generated 3d landscapes that can look absolutely stunning on their own, let alone once you start crafting and building glass/stone/wood monoliths filled with lava towering into the square clouds.
There's caves, mountains, forests, and realistic water, lava, and lighting. Not to mention monsters, an extensive (though unintuitive)crafting system, and multiplayer which is currently being tested in somewhat glitchy, barebones sort of way.
Oh yeah, and the worlds it generates for you can be up to eight times larger than Earth (not that any of our computers could handle such a world anyway, but it's possible)
Anyway, it's fucking sweet, and I highly recommend it. Especially since it's only $13 right now (though it will be more later) and for your money you get the game forever, DRM-free, including all future updates, and the ability to use custom player skins, I guess. You can download the client or play it in-browser, but I had a hard time trying to get the browser version to work.
Boro_Bandito:
I'm trying to play this, downloaded the client with the tutorial world from that one link, and I'm slowly learning how to play this. I'm also kind of tipsy and its 2 am so there is some frustration control going on here.
Christophe:
If you want an excellent tutorial for this game (and trust me, you'll need one) there is this nifty thread on SA with a link to a video series that will explain most everything of what you need to know. Also includes links to the Lazy Newb pack that will take some of the edge off of this impossibly complex game.
In other news, my fortress suffered its first casualty today--one of our stoneworkers got mauled to death by a Giant Bat. welp shouldn't have dug so deep into that cavern that I forgot to seal it off to monsters
Boro_Bandito:
Hee, I love the effing descriptions of the dwarves' likes and dislikes, one of them likes cows for their haunting moos, hee.
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