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[Toady One]

Okay, yeah, there isn't such an option now, but I'd just need to put a new variable in and fiddle with how the timer is used.

As far as classifying it, if you saw the movies, you can come up with a name for it.  I'd call it a dwarf fortress simulator, named Dwarf Fortress.

[Gezol]

From my viewing of the movies, I'd call it a real time strategy game with ASCII graphics, though it focuses on building a fortress rather than an army as most RTS games do. It's sort of in the tradition of things like Dungeon Keeper and Tecmo's Deception, except you're playing the good guys in Dwarf Fortress. I don't know if there's a name for this particular sub-genre...

[Silleh Boy]

so, we have a real time game, with rogue esque graphics that's a strategy simulation of a dwarven fortress.

too long, need something more catchy.
like, uh...

ideas, anybody?

[Aquillion]

If I wanted to give people an idea of what it looked like, I would definately compare it to Dungeon Keeper based on the movies.

It's a Dwarven Keeper Roguelike Fortress Simulation Game!  With extra purring maggots.

[ September 28, 2005: Message edited by: Aquillion ]

[Toady One]

Are purring maggots the baby dwarves?  Life is so complicated sometimes.

[Silleh Boy]

so, we have a roguelike dungeon keeper with extra purring maggots.

that's somehow less catchy than i expected.

[Gezol]

I guess the catchiest way I can think of to put it is that it's an ASCII RTS game. That leaves out a lot, but that's the briefest description I can come up with. You could then add that it's the Dungeon Keeper/Deception category of RTS, but with more life simulation aspects. And purring maggots.

Really, it's looking like a pretty unique game, all around. Rogue was something unique when it came out, and now all the games that follow in its footsteps are called roguelikes. Maybe we'll speak of Dwarf Fortress-likes in the future...

[Demon]

I'm actually kicking around the idea of making a dwarf fortress-like sci-fi game...  Although I might end up using graphics, so maybe it won't count.

[Toady One]

Demon must post games!

40/200...  champion-like progress...  maybe the number 40 will die on the weekend though.  And become a 39 or something.

[Silleh Boy]

this could very well be the game that Toady is remembered best for.

this could be a game so complex and detailed, it makes games such as nethack look simple.

or maybe i've just had too much to drink.

[Toady One]

can't you put an amethyst in your drink to cure that problem?  I think you can do that in nethack.  you can't do that in dwarves, but then again, it's kind of strange (a traditional greek belief according to wikipedia, or something).  I'll have less of that, and more purring maggots.

[Eagleon]

I thought of purring maggots as really large ropey ones with waxy skin. When there are a lot of them on a big carcass, they rub against each other and "pur". I can understand hating them if that's what they are. *shudder*

Either that or cute furry ones that pounce and chew curtains.

[Toady One]

You know, when a dwarf has a small tame pet (as opposed to a musk ox), then when you look at it in the inventory, it says something like "Dar the Squirrel (On Head)" or "Dar the Squirrel (On Shoulder)".

Purring maggots are small.  Purring maggots can be tamed.

AND YET, this is only the beginning of the purring maggot story...  it really is an epic mystery of Aquillion-movie-guess proportions.

[Silleh Boy]

cute, furry maggots that pounce and chew on curtains. cat's, without the entire 'scratching your face off because you gave them the wrong type of fish for dinner'?

i wonder if there's going to be purring maggots in game...

[Joe Sixpack]

Sorry to detract from your maggot discussion, but what's 'nethack'. Does anyone have a link?