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[NTJedi]

Was playing Dominions_3 (great_game) and someone said Dwarf Fortress had a more difficult learning curve.  I wouldn't play with the ascii graphics, but once I found the lazy newb pack and ironhand graphics I started playing. The ironhand graphics are good enough for me, but all letters and symbols was my breaking point.

[weenog]

tvtropes entry for Apocalyptic Log -> tvtropes entry for Boatmurdered -> lparchive entry for Boatmurdered.  Much reading, no sleep.  Tried to install and run the game, no luck, not on a ten year old computer assembled from free scrap parts that were ancient even back then.  Filed it away in the back of my mind under Things That Might Be Nice If They Were Possible.  Occasionally read other LPs and such related to DF, but could do nothing about it.

Got an itch to try again much later, had permission to use my sister's laptop for gaming when she wasn't using it.  Remembered DF, installed and tried it.  I didn't understand anything, except that this was going to take a LOT of time to figure out.  Didn't think I'd have that kind of time available on a borrowed computer, uninstalled.

Even later on, sister's laptop was dying... screen dissolved into a mass of static any time it was jarred, sister flapped the fold around trying to fix it, had some success but made the problem progressively worse, till even a loud noise could screw it up.  A few weeks ago as of now, she got a new desktop PC and permitted me to have the broken laptop.  As I suspected the screen cable had fatigued and broken, and I replaced it, wiped the HDD, installed Ubuntu and moved in.  Coincidentally re-read the LP of Headshoots a little later and thought, "Hey, I have a machine that can run that now, available to me whenever I want for as long as I want."  Installed the game, failed a lot, learned some.  Read the wiki, failed a lot more, learned some more.  Joined #df on irc.synirc.net, still failing, still learning.  Now I'm here too.

Since I got started I haven't played any other games, except on the infrequent occasions company comes over and requires a sound thrashing at a console fighting or tabletop board game.  I've got a crapload of recorded House epis I need to watch and erase, but I can never seem to find the time to watch TV anymore...

[Die Nacht]

Man..I can't even remember. It wasn't a person, I think I found it on my own but I can't remember how.

But anyways, what did attract me was the idea of a world that is made and then let go. At the time I was a physics student in college so the idea of creating an universe and having this universe grow on its own interested me. I also liked how ridiculously detailed everything was.

But man, how the hell did I find it? This is going to kill me...

[mumlock]

Tim Denee

[Kaleb702 Games]

I can't remember. :\
Though, I do remember that I had forgotten about it then re-discovered it through my memory.

[azrael300]

As the title says, how did you find Dwarf Fortress?
A friend?
Another Forum?
Google search?
Random link?

I found mine on another forum, The Blockland forum. There was a topic about it in the games section and after a week of seeing it on the front page I finally clicked the topic and read about the game and downloaded it.I originally dumped the game due to save corruptions and ASCII. But one of the posts gave a link to Mike Mayday's version.That is the story of how I found one of my favorite games!

i found it in the old update reports of minecraft of 2010

[carabide]

If I recall, in my younger years, I was searching the Apple page for games, and happened across it.

[Furtuka]

Found it on tvtropes. Got directed to Boatmurded from there. The rest is history

[Cobbler89]

I was talking with my best friend, discussing how in videogames you're usually attacking a fortress rather than setting up all those waves of defenses for one. He mentioned Dwarf Fortress as an example of flipping that around. I was intrigued; I tried it and went from being intrigued to being more or less hooked. (I hardly have the time for it that I'd like, having both a job and other interests, but this is definitely my favorite game at this point. And I've played a lot of good old games.)

[Inarius]

I found it because i was following the (future) release of "Magna mundi", the next game of Paradox Interactive. And one day I saw that a new game was about to be developed..."A game of Dwarf", i read the forum and then there i am !

[Neyvn]

Dwarf Fortress appeared on my PC one day, the same day that I discovered I had an account here, so I decided to use them, clearly they were placed there for the better good...

[Pharaun]

Several years ago on 4chan, specifically /tg/, there was a thread about how to rp various races. Someone posted some screenshots from Dwarf Fortress, told some hilarious stories, talked about boatmurdered and so on. I ended reading all of Boatmurdered over the next couple of days and picked up a download later. Several hundred hours of play time later, I spread the word of Toady to any who will listen.

On that note, I actually just got my first bloodline game going. It's between me and some people I got hooked. Our ultimate goal is to build a large monument or castle-like building entirely of gold, silver, gems, etc.

[Domenique]

I saw it being mentioned in gamebanshee and months later, tried out, because I was bored. If it wasn't the case, I wouldn't have bothered to crack the game.

[MercuryP]

Back in the 2d days I stumbled across a link to it somewhere, played for a while, mostly fascinated by setting up irrigation systems and absolutely terrified of the magma river.  A couple years later I saw it mentioned again and remembering the game I decided to give it another spin and WHAT IS THIS 3D OH GOD.  But since then I've been following the updates fairly regularly.  I've never actually accomplished anything impressive in the game, mostly because I love mining and hate rocks, so I'm hoping mine carts and my newer computer will make things better this time around.

[slaytanic]

I almost broke my neck last year and had a lot of time on my hands. I googled "The best strategy micro managing game" and found it.