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[Kilo24]

There was a comment about in an article on the Escapist.  I became vaguely interested, googled it, then played for a few hours with the aid of the wiki then almost quit because it was both complex and unintuitive.

But I kept at it, and was greatly rewarded.  Hmm... I'm wondering if we should bug Toady about bundling a manual congealed from the wiki with the releases.  Or at least whipping up a fan manual for portability's sake.

Side-note: Funny thing I've noticed is that other tilesets than the original ones now confuses the buggers out of me. "DF is not meant to look like this!" I keeps telling myself. Anyone else experiencing this?

Definitely.  The tilesets are now more bizarre to me than the ASCII graphics originally were.

[Bromor Neckbeard]

Boatmurdered was linked to on a (truly horrible) forum for a different indie game that I used to be interested in.  I gave DF a shot, but couldn't get into it due to the near-vertical learning curve that reminded me of the games I used to play on the Apple IIc.  About a month later somebody on that forum started up a succession game, and after reading the accounts of all the hilarious and horrifying things that happened, I knew that I had to give it another chance.  Fortunately somebody on that forum showed me the DF Wiki and a list of graphics packs, and when I tried DF for the second time, I got over the hump and actually learned how to play.

This coincided with my getting truly sick of the nickle-and-diming way the console manufacturers are doing business nowadays (I was so pissed off at the launch of Mercenaries 2 that I handed my 360 and a box of games to some random dude on the street), so I have a lot more time to play Dwarf Fortress anyway.

[extar]

Via Kieron Gillen's article singing its praises in an issue of PC Gamer UK.

[Footkerchief]

Boatmurdered was linked to on a (truly horrible) forum for a different indie game that I used to be interested in.

What game?  CC?  Touhou?

[Bromor Neckbeard]

What game?  CC?  Touhou?

CC, yes.  If their mods would enforce the actual written rules instead of imaginary unwritten ones, and hand out a few summary IP bans when people were elitist about how long they'd been playing the game, that forum would be a tolerable place.  Oh well, I guess Toady gets my dollars instead of Data.

[Qmarx]

ENworld, from a thread about fantasy world generators.

[Footkerchief]

What game?  CC?  Touhou?

CC, yes.  If their mods would enforce the actual written rules instead of imaginary unwritten ones, and hand out a few summary IP bans when people were elitist about how long they'd been playing the game, that forum would be a tolerable place.  Oh well, I guess Toady gets my dollars instead of Data.

Yeah, I registered my copy of CC last week when it dropped to $9, but it rubs me the wrong way how Data can't even be bothered to include changelogs in his releases, much less actually update his dev log.  If I had a community like that, I'd be apathetic too, I guess.

[Tormy]

What game?  CC?  Touhou?

CC, yes.  If their mods would enforce the actual written rules instead of imaginary unwritten ones, and hand out a few summary IP bans when people were elitist about how long they'd been playing the game, that forum would be a tolerable place.  Oh well, I guess Toady gets my dollars instead of Data.

What is this CC what you are talking about?

[Footkerchief]

Cortex Command.  It's pretty fun.

[Holoi]

my bro plays it , he is the fish master! how awesome is that?

[IndonesiaWarMinister]

Boatmurdered was linked to on a (truly horrible) forum for a different indie game that I used to be interested in.

What game?  CC?  Touhou?

What? You said that Touhou is terrible?

YOU BASTAAAAAARD! We shall kill you in the night, or just transport you into Gensokyo, since we're cool like that.

[MMad]

The Gamasutra article, or possible some other article or blog linking to it.
That lead to boatmurdered, and after reading the whole thing I knew I had to try the game.

[Tormy]

Cortex Command.  It's pretty fun.

Oooooooh, I know that one, yeah it's a neat little game. 

[Axe27]

I was looking at an IRC one night when they were talking about DF.

And that got me interested. I think that IRC also got me to play Rome:Total War, and planetside.

[Medicine Man]

Chaosforge.net [or was it .com?It was the one with doomrl]i saw some people talking about df so i decided to play it,and at first i hated it and i said to myself that i would never play it again but i had only played df mode not adventure so i played adventure and got hooked.