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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

I would like to point out that Toady previously made the very funny Liberal Crime Squad.

[–] booty@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

don't forget to yeet your nobles using a drawbridge, it's fun for the whole fortress

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Alternatively, atom smash your nobles into oblivion.

[–] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Nobles are perfect for "negotiating" with invasions.

[–] CarbonScored@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Dwarf Fortress devs themselves effectively defied capitalism and the game was simply donationware for the first 20 years of game development. Always respect when devs are able to do that and commit to it.

The official graphical versions now actually cost money on Steam, but they still release the underlying game for free (and plenty of free graphic mods out there if ASCII isn't modern-graphics enough for you).

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have a feeling they'll make the game open source when they die. Dwarf Fortress is their life's work, and they just want it to grow. If I recall they made the map generator open source.

[–] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

i think they've mentioned in the past that the code will be donated and go open source after they've died. although i guess it would be torture to work on a 700,000 line 20 years old non-standard c/c++ codebase with almost no documentation with so many intricacies that touching one part will almost certainly introduce a bug in an unrelated place. i hope they get people onboard before they pass it on to the community.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Oh, the map generator is open source? I've always thought it would be rad to use as a jumping off point for building a D&D setting to play in, but using the game for that is impractical.

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I think so, but I've never looked into it personally. I remember hearing someone mention it before but I could be wrong.

[–] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dwarf Commune can't stop winning

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

Remember kids: capitalism leads to FPS death

[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago
[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I knew I liked Dwarf Fortress for a reason.

[–] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[–] iByteABit@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Wow the dev started from creating a fun game about dwarves to simulating the inevitability of the failure of capitalism and the liberation of the workers.

Full support to the dwarven proletariat rosa-salute