Noclip has made a great documentary about Dwarf Fortress and it’s creators! Can recommend it, even if you haven’t played it.
A great documentary series. It’s four glorious episodes long!
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-THgg8QnvU5xvhtFe7orgcnfIqFq_qVk
IIRC, the creator’s medical bills were the motivator for bringing it to Steam with graphics upgrades. I’m glad to see he’s finding success here.
Fantastic news! I’m so happy they felt impetus to include the less ASCII loving fellow humans in their beautiful game, I tried it a couple times earlier but with too much frustration. The vanilla steambuild changed all that, and at warp 9 as well. Wat a great game, really happy for the developers and publisher.
I remember trying the original and bouncing off on the steep learning curve. Might just give the new one a go.
I bought it a few months back. Very fun, but the UI and general tutorial needs a lot of work as they are quite sparse. IMO.
As a new player I found it incredibly frustrating being left to figure out a bunch of stuff on my own. I ended up not playing it because I was struggling with stuff (like the waterwheels, and some other stuff, I forget) it really felt like a life commitment to just play DF.
It’s a good game but BOY has it been tough to figure out.
Think that is by design tbh.
Agree entirely, solving the problems yourself is what makes the game imo.
