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[Dwarf]

Half Light Productions forum.

FreeSpace... my other freeware love. Although it's not free anymore

[Anamabir]

/tg/ (on 4chan) absolutely loves it, so I thought I'd give it a try. After reading Boatmurdered, of course.

[tfaal]

I found it on tvtropes. It was listed as an aversion of the Annoying Arrows trope: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AnnoyingArrows

[Greiger]

I read about it in a magazine. I no longer get the magazine as it was years ago, but it had a section called "The Freeloader" DF had a little corner all to itself. And since I was just playing a rougelike called Hengband at the time the ASCII didn't scare me off.

I tried all the games in that issue's freeloader, DF was the only one that kept my interest.

[StrongAxe]

My old DM told me about it, and told me it was the most complicated game he had ever played.  That got my attention, then he said it's called DWARF Fortress, and I said to myself, "Self, you must play this game".  I've come to be very impressed with it's depth and humor.  Hurrah!

[ZJVavrek]

This guy: http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?action=profile;u=15616

That guy right there.

We know each other from an entirely different online community.  For months, he went on about his fortress in our IRC channel.  He talked about building an elf drowner, and attempted to explain why this was necessary.  I heard cries of "Oh god, the camels!  THE CAMELS ARE INVADING!"  He would rejoice when one of his legendary wrestlers, baby strapped on, ran down the hall and decapitated one of said camels with a wave of her hand.  And then terror and sadness as said baby was killed by a goblin arrow and the resulting wave of depression destroyed an entire fortress.

He talked about this for months.  It was too absurd to not be fascinating.  I had to see what it was he was talking about.  Of course, I only got into it with the Mayday graphics pack, a point which still he objects to, though in minor ways.

[Itnetlolor]

Back while I had tons of accounts all about the 'net, I've heard tons of references and even saw some screenshot motivators of the game one place or another (both ASCII and Mayday sets; it was the Mayday tileset that caught my attention more to the game in a motivator); and I recall hanging around the Something Awful boards (back while it meant something, I think; the LP section was most worth my time there), I remeber seeing Boatmurdered in motion (It's revival process at least, never looked inside, and nowadays I kinda regret it), and several other DF games going on.

Taking interest, I decided to try the game out (while it was still 2D and fun to learn). After enough not knowing exactly what the heck I was doing, I gave up. Trying again a half-year later, it was 3D; did a few small forts of fun, gave up with frustration and much fun. Many megaprojects and thread lurking later (for another half-year before I committed myself to the boards here more often), my interest gets revived once more, I experiment a few design changes to my playing, and make a successful fort (not super-high, to the point of kings and economy, but good enough to pass for me); and then the ultimate test of my gameplay experience, take on a megaproject of my own.

I think the humor and depth of the game caught my attention most, I mean, the level of creativity for projects and fort designs. This was the kind of crap I did in my free time, or while I was bored in some of my classes with a pen and paper, just designing all sorts of forts and machines and such, this game allows me to actually build them (somewhat). I still gotta interpret some of my old sketches and convert them into DF-able forts. I have some nifty architecture in my sketchbooks.

[Grue]

I found about Slaves of Armok I on Usenet, decided to check it out and it was pretty amusing (all those body parts flying in all directions!). Then later I checked out other Bay 12 games. Corin's Mystery Massacre was pretty cool! And Star Zoo! (anybody played these?) Oh, and Liberal Crime Squad of course. Anyway, I decided to read the forums to see what's coming. And there was a big thread about the Toady's new big project. I downloaded some "movies" of the gameplay and they were pretty cool (I still have them somewhere). There was one where a dragon flies by and creates carnage with its firebreathing. Anyway, I was following it for a year or so (there was an actual release date and all!) Anyway, eventually DF was released and there was much rejoicing.

[Sinistar]

There is a pc/console games/software/hardware. etc mag that I used to buy. One month, then-still-2D-DF version was on it's DVD with a description you manage dwarf fort or something (and as some other user here I thought destination window was a screenshot from actual gaming). Thinking this might be interesting I pressed install button and followed the installation process...and the rest is history.





Well, in fact I quit the game few seconds after finally embarking on a first fortress. I started chewing through the wiki.
And returned in most glorious fashion.
Youtube tutorials, graphics sets?
Nay mates. ASCII and searching through dwarf wiki is a go. Did not even know about vids and never really cared about other graphics, khehehe. 
Funny thing is, despite absolutely loving ASCII in DF and being my first such game, I cannot play rougelikes other than with custom tiles.

And another fact: before I started with DF I used to play WWI Medic a lot. Even after being introduced to DF and Bay12Games it took me some time to figure out that WWI Medic is also from here. 

[Horseplank]

Another forum, the forum for Cortex Command.

http://forums.datarealms.com/index.php

[xczxc]

As a couple of people said, I also was on the ADOM forums and stumbled upon a thread about DF and after I found another thread at the xkcd's forums, I decided to give DF a try and i loved it.

[Banana]

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[Lalandrathon]

I found an article on some game development forum where someone had interviewed Tarn about the fairly algorithms he'd used to make an extremely complex world and gameplay. And the game sounded really cool.

[Asatruer]

Three Panel Soul was my intro to DF, but I did not really get into the game until after Penny Arcade linked to the awesome tutorial by TinyPirate.

[Sysice]

TV tropes article.
I actually remember what page it was, too! Annoying Arrows, an awesome page. 

It's amazing how much of these things I follow. Jay is games! Cortex command! ADOM! Nethack! Kongregate! Giant in the Playground! Google!
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