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I can't wait until the prof does a google search on Dwarf Fortress and finds this thread

Quote from: Seth on November 03, 2009, 07:15:23 pm

this looks great, nice job all

I have to say though I think the graphics are too happy: DF (and roguelikes in general) has always seemed to me to be a very dark game.  Which is fine, I think its best if people can choose whatever graphics they want, but I hope there will be the capability to make your own tilesets

When I was considering the original style I wanted to go with on the tiles, I considered something really grim and gritty for a while... but for some reason, the perverse irony of cartoony dwarves building magma-powered deathtraps that they dump on diplomats and the bourgeoisie, and cleaving cartoony goblins in two with big shiney axes was too great to pass up.

There's something decidedly "Itchy and Scratchy" or "Ren and Stimpy" about it.

Yeah I understand that, not really my thing though.  I feel like there is something about the aesthetic of ASCII and roguelikes in general that always gets lost when these games are given actual graphics.  But to tell the truth I'd enjoy working on an alternate tile/spriteset that works to preserve that, so maybe I'll start up a little project about it once this gets further along

Yeah, it made me skip class and neglect sleep.

I think one way to work this out is to make digging for everyone, player and non player civs, much more time consuming and difficult, so much so that it wouldn't be considered by the siege troops unless the player is turtling for a lengthy amount of time--where then the siege troops would have to actually set up a sort of camp or little cave and work to sustain themselves (I would also like to see siege camps in general).  So that, if you get tunneled, it's only because you were too cowardly or not a good enough scout or something.

or for less organized molemen, who would be more of a nuisance.

IN ALL SERIOUSNESS I always found it weird that dwarves are content to eat phallic fungi all day--they should be demanding real meat!

some of my heath care units discovered some bacteria under a microscope.

they are also rebindable, named something like secondary selector.

Quote from: Ixoran on July 08, 2008, 12:43:14 am

This isn't supposed to sound condescending, but ASCII is the niche, not graphical representations.

ASCII is a Graphical Representation, though.

Hm, I would say ASCII is more like a mix of abstract/iconic/textual representations.  "S" is no way graphically representative of a giant cave spider.