Hey, I'm a new member here, but am a big fan of Dwarf Fortress. I'm not sure if someone has already done this, but seeing how fun Dwarf Fortress is I'm sure someone has.. But I randomly came up with this challenge while spammed questions on how to play dwarf fortress in my political science class by 3 different people..
Anyway, the challenge is simple, don't look up any tutorials or guides to play dwarf fortress. That one rule may seem pretty simple for a new player in any game.. until they played dwarf fortress
Basically its just a way to get more people playing dwarf fortress, and to get a few laughs too
Anyway here's the list, Ill edit it more while I go along, and feel to send me an email or msn message to me if you want to add some people you know to the list who are taking up this challenge (MSN is
Lancu48@hotmail.com)
Eaten Cheese: Used tutorial after 3 days of playing
Fitzy Chan: Used tutorial b4 having the actual game
Mayer Toast: Brain exploded
Microcyber: Couldnt figure out world generator and quit
Commander Bob: Hasn't started
Ace: Hasnt downloaded
Some Random Guy: Has started to play without tutorial, Adventure mode - jumped in a river and died
shuggy555: "This game is crap" He opened it up and pressed enter a few times then quit. He never tried the game, probably quit because he couldn't figure out what anything meant, and gave up. This game is not for the weak minded or selfish kids who know nothing but high quality graphics
Opie: Death by wild animals and quit
Rashilul: fortress of 45 dwarves that were all murdered by carp b4 looking at tutorial
Lawec: "Read tutorial and had food shortage, resulting in dwarves tantrum'in, going berserk, and chasing vermin"
Itnetlolor: "Started it, had not a friggin' clue how to play. Looked in the help file, dug a hole in the wall, everyone starved to death eventually, dehydrated, and tantrumed to death."
Take 2: "read the tutorial, still lost my fortresses to poor coordination and not a full understanding of the game."
Take 3: "the tutorial was initially useless until I did more experiments, and until I saw how to setup my guys properly. It took a video tutorial to show me how to properly get things going."
2xMachina: "Using the original, I got confused. Later used DFG and helped me a lot, and then I just searched the wiki on how to do stuff"
Jude: "first reaction was, "What the fuck is this?" and deleted it. Took a couple more tries before I actually learned it, and that absolutely required a tutorial."
Draco18s: "I never looked at a guide/tutorial/the wiki when I started playing, and I figured things out. Mostly by asking a friend who had played more than I had. When I found the wiki I looked up a bunch of stuff, but I didn't need help per say. I still use it to learn things (like the most efficient pump tower design)."
salttotart: "Not wanting to die instantly, I found Capt_duck's tutorials, and watched the first few to get a general grasp on the basic techniques. After that I dived headlong in and actually tried to learn the bulk of things the hard way; only looking at tutorials if I absolutely had to."
Jimmy: "I started playing back in 2D, well before there were any tutorials. Still play that version sometimes."
darkflagrance: "When picking up the game, it really helped to have lurked the forums for a long time first, and thus having picked up not only the basics, but also the goals and challenges such as towers, mega-construction, and magma flooding. By playing your earlier games in a more consciously goal-oriented way, you don't get bogged down with the endless options."
Stahlseele: "Well, it had to happen sooner or later ... Dorf Fortress has invaded dumpshock O.o "
LegoLord: "I managed to get one fortress to be large enough for a sheriff before they all starved to death wihtout taking a look at the wiki. I think that between that fort and the wiki trip, I figured out how to change z-levels, but I can't quite remember."
CanadianWolverine: "Its a game I have wanted to get into, strikes me as something like what The Sims could be if it took the gloves off, but unfortunately I just can't seem to wrap my head around its GUI enough to accomplish any of the disasters I want to befall my dwarves to actually happen. Those that understand the interface however do some pretty cool stuff and I like reading about it."
kilakan's "Friend": played the game in fortress mode, got his hunter killed by gophers, quite, tried adventure mode, got killed by gophers quite, tried one more time and currently has over 400 elf kills.