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[Jetsquirrel]

Found it on gpgnet forum by some RTD
and he mentioned this forum and this stood there
"Dwarf Fortress You should check it out awesome game"
so i downloaded it and didnt understand anything Then The holy Captainduck Tutorials came. From that piont it was cake

[ToonyMan]

:-(

Not to be mean or anything, but has anyone new learned how to play the game by themselves?

[twwolfe]

:-(

Not to be mean or anything, but has anyone new learned how to play the game by themselves?

*rasies hand*

well, the basics anyway. gotta love the help button.

[Hippoman]

Found it on gpgnet forum by some RTD
and he mentioned this forum and this stood there
"Dwarf Fortress You should check it out awesome game"
so i downloaded it and didnt understand anything Then The holy Captainduck Tutorials came. From that piont it was cake

I liked tiny pirates better. I couldnt stand to watch all those videos of Captain duck.

[xtank5]

I found it through Three Panel Soul and Boatmurdered.

[onodera]

First I read about it on 4chan's /tg/. Then I found and read Boatmurdered. Then I downloaded DF and started playing.

[Zona]

TVTropes. As you can see in my sig they have a page on DF. Well that page itself made me want to play but what really did it was the link to Boatmurdered.

I got by with the ? untill I looked at the wiki. Then I clung to the Wikie as a limpet clings to a rock.

[cl3ft]

I found out about it in a post on Reddit.com Gaming.

[LordNagash]

A friend linked me to it... a year before it was ever released (CptMayday I will never forgive you for this. Couldn't you have suffered alone?). Anyway, it sounded great, and I followed it for a while. Then I forgot about it, until he reminded me just before the release and I've been playing ever since.

[Holy Mittens]

TVTropes. As you can see in my sig they have a page on DF. Well that page itself made me want to play but what really did it was the link to Boatmurdered.

This is the exact thing that I did as well.

[Mungrul]

It started bubbling under my radar on a couple of the forums I visit, namely ttlg.com and yakyak.org.
In fact, my very first exposure to the game looks like it owes itself from a 2006 thread in TTLG's General Gaming forum.
People were talking about magma and rogue-likes, and linked to a story with attached pictures.
It wasn't Boatmurdered; it was one where a fireman came down a tunnel filled with water creating steam as he went, while the fortress's top archer slept through it all.
It all sounded utterly fantastic, with more attention to detail than I'd ever heard of from any game previously.

Then I tried to play it unaided, my brain went "Flurp?", and I gave up.

3 months later, after seeing it get mentioned more and more frequently, with more vigour every time, I decided that I was jolly well going to master this bally game.
I promptly proceeded to have fun drowning several forts in attempts to obsidianise imps, I flooded the world in one such escapade that resulted in my first experience of DF frame rate lag, yet I refused to gave up.
Like others, I clung to the wiki (and still do), until I got exposed to Tiny Pirate's tutorials which gave me the missing farming link needed to explode from barely self-sustaining fortresses where all food was bought from traders with crappy crafts, to continuously expanding fortresses with more food than they know what to do with.

And this isn't hyperbole; I really do think this is the best game in the world, hands down, no questions asked.

[Lemunde]

The Elder Scrolls forums.  We get a lot of "good free games to download" threads and DF kept popping up.  Once I realized people made tile sets for it I became interested.  Every once in a while we get entire threads devoted to DF discussion and we talk about what we're doing with our fortresses.  I've been playing for several months but I still feel like a noob.

[Quantum Toast]

Saw a mention of Boatmurdered on TVTropes. Then another. And another.

[DI7789]

I was in to Rogue for some time, checked out the Wiki article on other Roguelikes and saw the title "Slaves to Armok". I thought it was an interesting title, so I tried it out. Found a short tutorial, found it almost useless >.< so I (mostly) taught myself, there's still a lot that I have yet to learn, however

[Foxbyte]

My first encounter with Dwarf Fortress was a short review someone did. They were using the ASCII and the way they were talking made it seem horrible and overcomplex.

A year or so after that I read of the madness surrounding Boatmurdered and it spoke for itself; I must have this game.

I lost track of time for a while. I remember waking up smelling of stale booze and mushrooms somewhere outside the industrial park nearby.