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Author Topic: How did you learn about DF?  (Read 8344 times)

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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #45 on: January 07, 2011, 10:44:16 pm »

It was on the free game section on sofrpedia.com for Macs.

Then it sat on my desktop for a few months as I tried to figure the fucker out. I was completely ignorant of the wiki.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #46 on: January 08, 2011, 02:06:53 am »

tvtropes

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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #47 on: January 08, 2011, 02:19:27 am »

To be fair, it was:
AVGN > Nostalgia Critic > Atop the 4th Wall > TVTropes > Dwarf Fortress
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #48 on: January 08, 2011, 03:25:30 am »

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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #49 on: January 08, 2011, 04:51:52 am »

Reddit. Saw one of the F7U12 comics about DF. Got curious, downloaded the game, learned how to play it and got in love with it.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #50 on: January 08, 2011, 05:51:46 am »

I was talking with someone on the kongregate chat about difficult games....
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #51 on: January 08, 2011, 10:43:40 am »

Well I had a bad computer back in the day , I searched for a game where you can build things ( it was 2008) , I got over on this game , but due to my computer well lets just say It wasn't a very nice experience.I forgot it for 2 years T_T
Anyways now in 2010 I got a better computer , and in November I crossed on it again , IT WAS FOR THE WIIIN
Now im just KEEP ON PLAING
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #52 on: January 08, 2011, 11:02:56 am »


Was talking with a friend about how the " new generation" of players are all a bunch of graphic whores. Then he linked me to this site and he said that he hadn't played it much, but that it was a cool game. So i tried it and a few tutorials later...well u know how it goes. ( fun happened)
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #53 on: January 08, 2011, 11:09:49 am »

Gameinformer, readed an article about minecraft.

Played Minecraft for some time

Readed that it was partly inspired by Dwarf Fortress

Googled "Dwarf Fortress"

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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #54 on: January 08, 2011, 12:23:52 pm »

TV tropes victim aswell.

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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #55 on: January 08, 2011, 04:45:35 pm »

TV tropes victim aswell.

Another one here. For me it went: I wanna be the guy > Tvtropes > Dwarf Fortress and a million other things (they weren't kidding about it being a Gateway Drug)
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #56 on: January 08, 2011, 04:50:25 pm »

Home of The Underdogs for me...was a thread about Dwarf Fortress as they were waiting for the first release. I just ended up being curious and well...spent 16 hours straight playing the damn release when it came out.
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #57 on: January 08, 2011, 05:56:10 pm »

Boatmurdered.

There was a link to the story in some other forum (don't even remember which one)... I read the whole thing, downloaded DF, started a few forts, died horribly, gave up, read the whole wiki and tried again. From there to the first obsidian traps and unfortunate accidents only a few days passed...
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #58 on: January 08, 2011, 06:01:56 pm »

Not sure where I first heard about it, but I gave it a miss the first time around. I think because the "alpha" tag scared me off, but it was long enough ago that there might not have been a Mac version yet.

A few years later, I read the TVTropes article and discovered just what an alpha release was capable of...
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Re: How did you learn about DF?
« Reply #59 on: January 08, 2011, 06:09:03 pm »

Somebody linked to Boatmurdered on another forum.  Several hours later, after reading the story and getting confused about the pictures, I found a link to the Complete and Utter Newbie Guide to Dwarf Fortress, and was hooked every since.
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