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Originally posted by Faces of Mu:
<STRONG>The writing of the article doesn't seem to portray well enough the creativity players get to express through this game. </STRONG>

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Yeah, I struggled with that, but couldn't really cram any more into the wordcount and still make this about Tarn and Zach, which is where I thought the story was.  I did manage to slide in the whole flingify example, but I would have loved to be able to feature some of the more ingenious fortress designs.  As it was, I managed to double my wordcount over the original commission.

Thanks for all the kind words.

Julian

First off, my sincerest apologies for failing to put the link in. I tend not to engage in deep linking when I'm writing fictionalized editorials, as I find it distracts from reading the piece, and assume people can hit google.  I've rectified it in this case, as I do indeed want as many people as possible to get on the dwarf fortress wagon.

Second, I didn't write the link into the piece from Slashdot, so I'm afraid I didn't have any control of that bit.

Third, while perhaps the /. effect isn't the monster it once was, i can tell you from having run several small fan sites that it can EASILY still take down a site that's on a shared host.

Thanks,

Rabbit