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Re: An illustrated dwarf fortress battle report
« Reply #30 on: April 20, 2010, 08:34:41 pm »
Simply brilliant. I would love to read an epic or let's play in this style, which carried over the ramshackle, simple yet complex and expressive feel of Dwarf Fortress, both in its programming as a game and in the stories and constructions its players create within it.
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Re: An illustrated dwarf fortress battle report
« Reply #31 on: April 20, 2010, 09:26:20 pm »
Quote from: Aqizzar on April 20, 2010, 04:10:02 am
I can only it ricochets
Huh?

Anyhow, I'm considering printing off these pictures, laminating them, and binding it up as a book to give my future children.
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Re: An illustrated dwarf fortress battle report
« Reply #32 on: April 20, 2010, 09:31:07 pm »
Quote from: Barbarossa the Seal God on April 20, 2010, 09:26:20 pm
Anyhow, I'm considering printing off these pictures, laminating them
That's exactly what I'm going to do, for reals. Just... wow.
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Re: An illustrated dwarf fortress battle report
« Reply #33 on: April 20, 2010, 09:43:59 pm »
This is awesome!  Great job with the pictures!
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Re: An illustrated dwarf fortress battle report
« Reply #34 on: April 20, 2010, 11:25:25 pm »
That was terribly awesome. This could turn out to be the best tool to raise DF awareness.  ;D

Heh, i like how those three dwarves in the bedroom wing look like Left4Dead characters.

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Quote from: Aqizzar on April 20, 2010, 04:10:02 am
I can only it ricochets
Huh?
It looks like he accidentally the verb. I'd assume he meant "i can only hope ..."
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Re: An illustrated dwarf fortress battle report
« Reply #35 on: April 21, 2010, 02:01:35 am »
MY GOD. That is the greatest saga this side of Boatmurdered. I'm sharing these on facebook to raise DF awareness.
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Re: An illustrated dwarf fortress battle report
« Reply #36 on: April 21, 2010, 02:06:21 am »
In the colloquial, timdenee wins. Forever.
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Re: An illustrated dwarf fortress battle report
« Reply #37 on: April 21, 2010, 09:45:04 am »
Everyone's been using up the good words to describe just how amazing this was to see and read. As art and as a story it's just wonderfully done. Thank you for doing it and sharing it!

Damnit I sound like a cheerleader! Curse you timdenee!
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Re: An illustrated dwarf fortress battle report
« Reply #38 on: April 21, 2010, 05:05:33 pm »
This was entertaining and well-rendered.
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Re: An illustrated dwarf fortress battle report
« Reply #39 on: April 21, 2010, 06:20:12 pm »
Huh? a battle report? wonder what he means by that....

-after viewing concentrated epic-

Spoiler: violence (click to show/hide)

But seriously, very nice job. love the art style and would like to see more of this in the fan-art thread.
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Re: An illustrated dwarf fortress battle report
« Reply #40 on: April 21, 2010, 08:46:22 pm »
A single tear slide down my cheek.

Pure epic.

I tip my future Tricorne to you, sir.
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Re: An illustrated dwarf fortress battle report
« Reply #41 on: April 21, 2010, 10:33:45 pm »
Not to be the only naysayer here, but I believe this was posted on at least two other forums before today (see example) and has been on at least two other subforums on this site.

I'm certainly not saying it's not very well done, or entertaining, just that I hope the right guy is getting the credit. 
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Re: An illustrated dwarf fortress battle report
« Reply #42 on: April 21, 2010, 10:38:35 pm »
Yeah, I certainly hope that timdenee isn't trying to steal iTim's work.
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Re: An illustrated dwarf fortress battle report
« Reply #43 on: April 22, 2010, 01:05:07 am »
Quote from: Heavy Flak on April 21, 2010, 10:33:45 pm
Not to be the only naysayer here, but I believe this was posted on at least two other forums before today (see example) and has been on at least two other subforums on this site.

I'm certainly not saying it's not very well done, or entertaining, just that I hope the right guy is getting the credit.

The guy who made these graphics hangs out on RPGNet, where I also hang out.  He posted the Bronzemurder Saga there at 8:38pm Eastern US Time, Monday night, 4/19.  His handle on RPGNet is iTim.

He also plays Team Fortress 2, and lives in New Zealand.  So in an effort to get his TF2 clan members interested in DF, he also posted the Bronzemurder Saga on his TF2 Clan webforum.  This would be the nzfortress.co.nz URL you may have seen.  He posts there as Nomad.

I actually think he posted the Saga to his TF2 forum first and then posted it to RPGNet.  But his TF2 forum reports posts in NZ local time, and I can't be arsed to figure out which one came first.

About 4 hours after he posted the Saga to RPGNet, he started this very thread here on the DF forums.

A few folks (one of whom was me), not knowing that he had posted here, also posted the Saga itself, or links to the Saga, in DF Stories and DF General Discussion.

Hope this clears things up.

P.S. Bronzemurder is ALIVE!
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Re: An illustrated dwarf fortress battle report
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