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Author Topic: How did YOU find Dwarf Fortress?  (Read 12620 times)

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Re: How did YOU find Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #105 on: January 11, 2013, 04:13:56 am »
was going to download ww1 medic on bay12games and i saw DwarfFortress, so i downloaded it..
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Re: How did YOU find Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #106 on: January 11, 2013, 05:03:33 pm »
Probably was first exposed to it by three panel soul but never really had a desire to explore it.  Then rediscovered it while reading the tvtropes article on minecraft.  It took a while to get over the ASCII stuff, but when you read some of the stories that people have created with this game like Boatmurdered, it really makes you want to try it.

as a funny aside I began playing dwarf fortress a wee bit before I got Skyrim and there is a quest in Skyrim involving miasma.  My first thought: oh, great. Giant billowing clouds of vision obscuring stuff coming off of rotting corpses. 
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Re: How did YOU find Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #107 on: January 11, 2013, 07:44:36 pm »
I was surfing around on the Let's Play Archives and found Boatmurdered. I thought to myself "Huh, never heard of this game before."

I saw the graphics and decided to give reading the LP a pass. Then, about a month later, after reinstalling an old game and deciding prettiness wasn't everything, I rediscovered Boatmurdered and read it. By about the turn with the crazy guy cursing at everything, I had downloaded the latest version and the rest, as they say, is legends mode. That one LP is probably the single greatest source of advertisement Toady could hope for.
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Re: How did YOU find Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #108 on: January 13, 2013, 03:36:54 am »
i discovered it by randomly searching for rts games and similar, found a page with it, failed to play it, now.. like.. 4 years latter i re-remembered it :)
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Re: How did YOU find Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #109 on: January 13, 2013, 01:41:34 pm »
Saw it in a list of best free games, read boatmurdered, watched jefmajor's lets plays, then downloaded. That was just over a year ago.
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Re: How did YOU find Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #110 on: January 14, 2013, 09:08:27 am »
Am I the only one who found it through Desura?
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Re: How did YOU find Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #111 on: January 14, 2013, 10:41:03 am »
Er... I don't even know what Desura is.
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Re: How did YOU find Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #112 on: January 14, 2013, 12:50:06 pm »
Quote from: flameboy99 on January 14, 2013, 10:41:03 am
Er... I don't even know what Desura is.
Well time to get googling then!
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Re: How did YOU find Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #113 on: January 14, 2013, 01:50:16 pm »
I found Dwarf Fortress via Boatmurdered and tvtropes.  Tvtropes lead to Boatmurdered, and while I didn't pick up Dwarf Fortress immediately, that's what ultimately got me to try it out.
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Re: How did YOU find Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #114 on: January 15, 2013, 12:23:14 am »
I was reading some magazine that had game reviews in it when I was going to Lapland. Saw DF there, got here, downloaded, wtf is this?, read Tinypirates tutorial, understood still nothing, didn't play. Was bored, thought about games to play, remembered DF, had fun.
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Re: How did YOU find Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #115 on: January 19, 2013, 03:46:10 am »
Cracked.com and the Legend of Tholtig Cryptbrain.  I'm surprised it hasn't been mentioned before.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=42702.msg790500#msg790500
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Re: How did YOU find Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #116 on: January 19, 2013, 09:40:32 am »
I heard of it via the minecraft wiki, it says the games that inspired notch to make minecraft. But i never downloaded it untill my friend Dorfmangler showed me gameplay and how to play.
Instantly fell in love
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Re: How did YOU find Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #117 on: January 19, 2013, 04:44:07 pm »
TvTropes here too, when I was looking for freeware games.

I still remember my first game (didn't look at the wiki).
I was so overwhelmed by options. Somehow I found out how to chop trees before I found out how to mine.
I had a small wooden village built with everyone complaining of no food and no booze.
Then I found out how to move up and down z-levels.
And then I realized that I had embarked on a flat plain and the reason I couldn't mine was that the dirt was under my feet.
Needless to say that fort didn't last past summer. (Even after learning how to mine, I couldn't figure out channelling or how to build a still or kitchen.)

Ah good times.
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Re: How did YOU find Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #118 on: January 19, 2013, 11:27:43 pm »
Quote from: Gavakis on November 22, 2012, 06:03:32 pm
I found Dwarf Fortress from Davidr64yt on youtube, someone mentioned Dwarf Fortress, and being bored I looked it up, and was amazed. I started playing back in 2011, and joined the forums a few months ago. From there, I found Jefmajor on youtube, Grimith and other awesome people, such as all of you and all your creativity. I love this place, and I love dwarf fortress.
Hey! Someone else who watches him!

Anyways, I actually found Dwarf Fortress from. . .

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/VideoGame/DwarfFortress?from=Main.DwarfFortress

Yes! The place! With the TABS!

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinYourLife
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Re: How did YOU find Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #119 on: January 21, 2013, 10:38:52 am »
Quote from: Godlysockpuppet on January 14, 2013, 09:08:27 am
Am I the only one who found it through Desura?
Am I the only one who found it through wikipedia?
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