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[klefenz]

Simply said, how did you got to know of the existence of DF?

In my case it was through Minecraft. Its website states that game was inspired by Infiniminer, Dungeon Keeper and Dwarf Frotress. I had already played DK and loved it, Infiniminer didnt sound so good (quite like a simplified version Minecraft IIrc), and then DF, i already liked dwarves so i gave it a try.

[Dyret]

TVTropes.

[Scruffy]

Hmmm..
I think that I first heard about it when it won a few game awards in 2006-2007 and then got interested after boatmurdered. Played for a few days during 40d and was interested in the game but did not continue playing for some reason.  Then I played a single fort after z-levels were introduced, screwed up my fort (muddying farm soil, water cistern, a river and water pressure. Yep. Then I lost my only picks during my greed for magma) and stopped playing again. Finally a few days after the release of 0.34 I started playing seriously and got hooked. Been playing ever since

[xcorps]

There was a thread about it in the Other Games section of the Total War Center forums.

[tiresius]

Read an article in Games For Windows magazine about the Adams brothers and their deeply complex game.  I enjoyed roguelikes so I figured it was something interesting.  This was back when it was 2D and 3D version was so new the website had a warning "not to use it yet" due to it being unstable.

[[5th]Lupin]

I was a member here before DF was even released. I think the first time I heard of it was when Toady posted about it in the old WW1 medic thread.

[WaffleEggnog]

I just remember some gaming people mentioning it here and there a long while ago, so I Googled and then I don't know what happened and then I posted this.

[Putnam]

I don't remember, mostly because I first heard of it, downloaded and tried to play it ~4 years ago and only actually got into it 2 and a half years ago.

[Willfor]

An IRC channel (not the Dwarf Fortress one) in 2008. It was a different time.

[Thorik]

I think I might have found my way to the magmawiki somehow, and just read a shitload of pages and then downloaded the game.

[darthsuegar]

I read about it on a forum for an old MUD I played. During downtime, a user suggested people try Dwarf Fortress. If I remember right, this was just after the first versions of 40d were released. That's when I tried it out

[King Mir]

TVTropes.

This. Just remember if being an exception to many tropes for it's realism.

[Nasikabatrachus]

Boatmurdered made me play Dwarf Fortress.

I found out about Dwarf Fortress at the same time I found out about Minecraft, on Shamus Young's Twenty Sided blog, but I played Minecraft first. Talk around Minecraft probably brought up Boatmurdered at some point.

I had been reading Twenty Sided because of Shamus Young's "DM of The Rings" series.

I learned about DM of The Rings through the Darths & Droids webcomic, which at the time was still on the Star Wars prequels.

I learned about Darths & Droids through TVTropes.

Oh my god—it all goes back to TVTropes. I thought I had escaped it...but...this whole time...oh my god...

[shadowclasper]

I read about it on Three Panel Soul then fell in love.

[Sutremaine]

I think I can ultimately trace my discovery of DF back to TV Tropes. I got to the LP Archive from the LP of Sonic '06, and I probably got the link for that off a TVT page. How did I find my way to that particular TVT page? No-one ever seems to remember that...