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It's all about brand awareness. BRUHS. Get da word out, old sckool.

If Tarn. Who I met in person. Would get his head out of the sand and actually actively develop a neat and accessible GUI system for dwarf fortress, fix certain bugs relating to the military (because most people like war games), and bugs that cause inconvenience (because they frustrate new players who are otherwise unwilling to devote time to read wiki articles for work-arounds). He'd probably see a massive influx of players and publicity. Of course even though I haven't posted on this forum for years, but have been travelling the world and whatnot; I still believe that most of this forum members are happy with how the game is as it stands, and that's good that you can enjoy it as it is. It can be a good simulation and create an interesting dynamic in story and function but a lot of people find it obtuse and refuse to bother with though they like to hear the stories people come up with.

This is an unpopular belief and it has been stated before but it makes sense and I think deep down a lot of DF players are aware of that.

Tarn of course I know is someone who has now basically devoted his life to make this video game a reality. That's cool. Not all of his life, mind you, he has other hobbies. It is one of his pet projects and he has decided to put a lot of work into it. A lot of work. I think it's sad that he's stubborn when it comes to making an interesting GUI for it. Third party GUI's are alright but an integrated clean-looking mouse clickable GUI with a dashboard would blow the internet out of the water. Lol.

Any news on Mount and Blade 2?

I'm surprised there's not a thread on this kickstarter project by the nice people at Double Fine Productions makers of Psychonauts, Brutal Legend, and Iron Brigade. According to the interview video that they did and the write up that they have they want a "rogue-like" permadeath X-COM inspired "... single player turn-based tactics game within a multi-generational strategy campaign built for replayability."

The game is structured into two main layers: strategy and tactics. In the strategy layer, you oversee your kingdom, arrange royal marriages, conduct research, and make the far-reaching decisions that will determine the fate of your legacy.

In the tactics layer, you fight brutal turn-based battles to defend your kingdom using small squads of customizable heroes.

Drawing from roguelikes we love, content is modular and randomized. Each playthrough begins with a random assortment of male and female heroes from various bloodlines, guaranteeing that each game is unique. Your knowledge and skill will increase over multiple playthroughs, but the details of every game will change based on your decisions and the whims of fate.

The bolded part I think is pretty much an indirect shout-out to Dwarf Fortress as it is essentially a medieval-styled roguelike with modular randomized content.

Funding ends on on Thursday Jun 27, 5:00pm EDT.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/double-fines-massive-chalice

TheZoomZoll has +2 in necromancy.

My apologies, then.  What is the difference between legacy and the standard?  Backwards compatibility?

Baughns SDL rewrite.

That bunny picture is funny.

What's with all the hatred in this thread?

I chose a new site.
I prepared carefully.
The dwarves arrived.
One week later, it rained some strange sludge, and everybody turned into zombies.
Your fortress has crumbled.

LOL.