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Author Topic: Where did you first hear about Dwarf Fortress?  (Read 14151 times)

Zasit Alebath

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Re: Where did you first hear about Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #150 on: June 14, 2010, 02:01:07 pm »

well, congratulations for threadcromancy :)

As for me, i first saw it on the Temple of the Roguelike, i think it was one of the early 3d versions
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Re: Where did you first hear about Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #151 on: June 14, 2010, 02:02:47 pm »

I found it's article on TV Tropes.
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Re: Where did you first hear about Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #152 on: June 14, 2010, 02:32:53 pm »

Same here.
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Re: Where did you first hear about Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #153 on: June 14, 2010, 02:39:12 pm »

Gamefaqs, some guy did a fortress log, I asked my newbi questions there (Like how the eff do I egt them to cut wood?!)
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Re: Where did you first hear about Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #154 on: June 14, 2010, 02:56:26 pm »

Heroes of Newerth forum.  SOmeone was complaining about how HoN has a really steep learning curve (lol...) and someone else replied with the image about DF's learning curve and it turned into a discussion about how hard DF is to learn.
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Re: Where did you first hear about Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #155 on: June 14, 2010, 07:31:16 pm »

Old high school aquaintence started meeting up with my neighbor and I for DnD and mentioned it a few times. I was incredulous. "Wait, a game where you play dwarves, kill elves, flood the world in magma and unleash hideous monsters from the deep? And its free?"

I didn't play it for several months, always figuring it probably sucked or was just a little flash game. Boy, was I wrong.
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Re: Where did you first hear about Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #156 on: June 15, 2010, 01:20:24 am »

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Re: Where did you first hear about Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #157 on: June 15, 2010, 01:36:32 am »

The Blockland forums. Someone made a topic about it and talked about the steep learning curve, accidently flooding a fortress with magma, etc. The topic was advertizing 40d at the time. I've always wondered, what was it like way back when like when Boatmurdered was recorded and even farther back around 2D?

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Re: Where did you first hear about Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #158 on: June 15, 2010, 01:43:03 am »

Like many people I was linked to Boat Murdered. 
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Re: Where did you first hear about Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #159 on: June 15, 2010, 04:20:08 am »

FIRST I heard of it was on a demo disc for a local gaming mag (think that was somewhere around late 2007, can't remember which version). I immediately lost patience and dropped it, but a couple years later I was looking in the Cortex Command forums and noticed the link to here. Got hooked this time :P
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Re: Where did you first hear about Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #160 on: June 15, 2010, 06:54:29 am »

random google searching for me.
such a lucky guy^^
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Re: Where did you first hear about Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #161 on: June 15, 2010, 06:57:16 am »

A friend recommended it about the time the 3D version was getting stabilized.
I played it off an on, until I took an interest in modding... then I was hooked.
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Re: Where did you first hear about Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #162 on: June 15, 2010, 07:35:59 am »

I discovered it on a french game forum (http://www.canardpc.com), back in 2D time.

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Re: Where did you first hear about Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #163 on: June 15, 2010, 08:57:30 am »

Somewhere around the time 40d got released, I heard about it on the age of chivalry forums (a forum about the medievil total conversion mod for hl2)
http://www.age-of-chivalry.com/smf/index.php?topic=6048.0
and decided to try it out and have been playing since.
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Re: Where did you first hear about Dwarf Fortress?
« Reply #164 on: June 15, 2010, 10:27:41 am »

A while ago, on the PC Gaming website Rock, Paper, Shotgun. They really love Dwarf Fortress there.
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