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DF Dwarf Mode Discussion / Re: I feel like [s]Hitler[/s] Stalin now...
« on: March 18, 2010, 06:03:09 pm »
A little bit of column A and a little bit of column B and a lot of MAGMA
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Going from DF to Aurora is like going from Diablo to Angband display wise.
That's a wild exaggeration. There's really not that much of a graphical difference between Dwarf Fortress and Aurora. And both games' reliance on text instead of images to convey information is very similar.
Aurora may have you delve into a particular screen or two to provide detailed information about a specific contact or planet, but intuitively DF shows nothing either: you must go through a similar method to find out g represents a goblin and + a tile of smoothed floor. And even when you know what each symbol means, you still have to examine tiles the same way manually to get deeper, often crucial information.