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Turgid Bolk

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Re: How did you come across DF?
« Reply #60 on: August 20, 2007, 10:54:00 am »
After a few years of abandoning roguelikes, I decided to give Nethack another try (nope, I still suck at it), and came across the @Play column via the Nethack wikia.  And since I'm naturally a cautious player, I spent a bit of time reading the DF wiki to learn how to survive the winter.  My first fort actually did pretty well until I lost several hours of playing to a one-second power outage and started over.  I just found it a couple months ago but I think I'll still be playing this game for as long as Toady cares to work on it.  Here's hoping that'll be for years to come!
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Re: How did you come across DF?
« Reply #61 on: August 21, 2007, 03:30:00 am »
Wikipedia
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Re: How did you come across DF?
« Reply #62 on: August 21, 2007, 03:43:00 am »
someone recommended DF on DOOM the roguelike forums, so I tried the link
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Re: How did you come across DF?
« Reply #63 on: August 23, 2007, 05:23:00 pm »
I found it on the Wikipedia. Everything is on the Wikipedia!
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Re: How did you come across DF?
« Reply #64 on: August 23, 2007, 05:41:00 pm »
Lurking on the SA forums. After seeing those succesion threads, I was hooked.
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Re: How did you come across DF?
« Reply #65 on: August 28, 2007, 01:55:00 am »
There was a thread about it on the Spring forums.
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Re: How did you come across DF?
« Reply #66 on: August 28, 2007, 03:15:00 pm »
Was posted at AnywhereBB
Home of Noctis, another freeware game, simply revolving around space exploration with no goals... but quite addicting and it has amassed a decent sized community.
And, much like DF, there's a long awaited new version sometime in the future. :P

[ August 28, 2007: Message edited by: Lightning4 ]

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Re: How did you come across DF?
« Reply #67 on: August 29, 2007, 09:39:00 pm »
A member of the Poe-news.com forum mentioned it if anyone was interested, and went on about how it was like dungeon keeper/sim city/ sim ant and gave links to SA threads and i liked it so i downloaded and played it and once i can rewall, i will send Toady moneys, i havent paid money for a game in years, but this is a masterpiece, I LOVE YOU TOADY!!11
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Re: How did you come across DF?
« Reply #68 on: August 30, 2007, 01:53:00 am »
I just heard it on the advice of a friend...I'm really not sure where he got it, could have been anywhere, but I'm sensing a common thread here with obsessions like SimAnt and Noctis.  I have a great love of roguelikes, I have a great love of way too much detail, and I have a fair love of wasting hours planning out elaborate things for no good reason!

By the way, Lightning4, that "Noctis V" thing is nothing but a brutal and vicious rumour that ought to be stamped out.  I visit that site about once a year, and every time, my youthful idealism dies a little more.

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Re: How did you come across DF?
« Reply #69 on: August 30, 2007, 08:15:00 am »
Wikipedia. I got bored with ADOM and looked up 'roguelike' on wikipedia to find something similar and of high quality. A link to wikipedia article on Dwarf Fortress was there, followed that one, became interested and followed the link to bay12games. And now I'm hooked.
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Re: How did you come across DF?
« Reply #70 on: September 05, 2007, 07:33:00 am »
SA goon, too...
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Re: How did you come across DF?
« Reply #71 on: September 06, 2007, 02:52:00 am »
Was browsing rec.games.roguelike.development (check it out, nice glimpse into the near future of roguelike development) and saw a post about DF, played a bit in adventure mode and dropped it for a while. Then a while later I played a bit in dwarf mode and was hooked.
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Re: How did you come across DF?
« Reply #72 on: September 06, 2007, 03:16:00 am »
A thread on /b/ that consisted of a screenshot, followed by somebody asking what it was, and somebody else actually answering seriously. I wanted to see what the heck it was about, so I googled it myself.
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Re: How did you come across DF?
« Reply #73 on: September 06, 2007, 06:05:00 am »
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I'm another one who found out through the TaleWorlds forum.

But what get my interest was a story a member of the foruns posted. After read it,  I had to give the game a try.

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Re: How did you come across DF?
« Reply #74 on: September 07, 2007, 04:39:00 am »
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Originally posted by Shzar:
<STRONG>I read about it on the Natural Selection forums. It's a Half-life mod, aliens vs. marines, FPS/RTS sorta game.</STRONG>

I'm from NS too, except I heard some people talking about it in the IRC channel.

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