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[Frogman]

...yeah. I just noticed the October issue of Super PLAY - "Sweden's largest videogame magazine" - had a two-page article on Dwarf Fortress.

Go go international dwarves!

There's also a single sentence dedicated to WWI medic.

[Grue]

I noticed that one of the most popular computer magazines in Russia, Computerra did an article.

[dav]

It's an international phenomenon!  And I was here before the magazines!  That makes me a real groupie.  Or roadie.  Or . . . what's the word for game fanatics?  Geek?

[Rondol]

Any bets on how long before someone tries to buy the rights to make it into a big-name commercial game?

[Mechanoid]

quote:Originally posted by Rondol:
<STRONG>Any bets on how long before someone tries to buy the rights to make it into a big-name commercial game?</STRONG>

Months, at the current rate of increasing attention.

Such an action would likely cause the instant death of the game on practically every single level of gameplay, however. Any attempt to move dwarf fortress from it's current path or cycle of growth would be like shaking a newborn baby, or punching the womb of a pregnant woman.

YOU SIMPLY DO NOT F!NG DO IT!
For the welfare of the child, you let it develop naturally, without interferance from it's original life cycle. When it's mature, fine, do whatever you want... But when you start to 'shake things up' in the development cycle, you're going to get one seriously mentally /physically retarded product. *COUGH* STALKER *COUGH*

[karnot]

quote: Any bets on how long before someone tries to buy the rights to make it into a big-name commercial game?

That, most probably, will never happen. I am commuting with game developers (commercial games, that is), and they say that no publisher in his right mind will buy DF, coz it plain simply wont sell.

So probably DF should build some more of a stable fanbase, several dozens of thousands.
Then there is a _slight_ chance.
Hmm...there needs to be a proving method of sorts, like required free register before game downloading, just so Toady can count the user base.

[Mechanoid]

DORFS' IN YUO PUBLI'SHA, FUK'IN' YUO QUARTER'Y EAR'INGS!

[At least, that's how i see it.]

[ November 11, 2006: Message edited by: Mechanoid ]

[karnot]

I dont think you can claim that you "see" anything at all.

[Capntastic]

quote:Originally posted by karnot:
<STRONG>
Hmm...there needs to be a proving method of sorts, like required free register before game downloading, just so Toady can count the user base.</STRONG>

It's actually pretty easy to see how many hits he gets to the site, or how many downloads the latest version has gotten.

[Rondol]

This other freeware game I used to play when I was younger, Titans of Steel, didn't have nearly as active of a forum as this when Matrix Games bought the rights to it. (The freeware is still available, and I still play it. Game is freaking awesome.)

[soixante]

DF was also tested in CanardPC (a french video-game paper) N° 132 (october, 18th. 2006). the game obtained 8/10.

That was how I knew the game. And now I'm an addict. A newbie, but addicted anyway and my paypal contribution will soon come !

Thanks for DF (and sorry for my poor geek english ffswtflolkthxbye)

:oF