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[TychoTheDwarf]

Slim or none?

What is DF's future?

[Leatra]

Maybe your grandchildren will play it

[Biopass]

It's Toady's life work. Which means the only way we don't see it is his premature death. Which isn't likely, since he's in pretty good shape. People complain about the computing power required; but most of these people don't own modern processors.

Personally, I think we'll see it in about 15 years. Armok only knows what technology we'll have for gaming then, but whatever it is, I'll be using it to play DF. I rather enjoy vanilla ASCII DF in 1080p, and use a gamepad for normal gameplay when I'm not building anything or doing anything complex.

[nenjin]

Slim or none?

About as likely as this question never being asked again.

So, none.

[Leatra]

Even if something happens to Toady, he will come back as a ghost, release the source code and let the community do it. Then we will drink booze in his honor until we get wasted.

Believe me, Dwarf Fortress will never die with a community like this.

[Biopass]

Even if something happens to Toady, he will come back as a ghost, release the source code and let the community do it. Then we will drink booze in his honor until we get wasted.

Believe me, Dwarf Fortress will never die with a community like this.

Only if there was absolutely no foul play. It's disgusting to think he'd have to put provisions like that into place, but apparently it is in his will that the source code will be released on his death unless there was foul play. In which case, rights go to Zach, iirc.

[Leatra]

When we talk about Toady like that, he sounds like a hacker who has data about corrupt corporations and governments.

[TychoTheDwarf]

Given how playable the game is (IMO) in its current form, maybe the expectation of a "DF v1.0" is silly.  I'm guessing Toady never expects nor wants DF to get too big (fanbase-wise).  It seems like a shame to have something this ambitious and entertaining chug along on donations and a skeleton crew while giants like EA crap out mainstream-friendly junk like great bloated beasts with chronic diarrhea.

[Leatra]

Given how playable the game is (IMO) in its current form, maybe the expectation of a "DF v1.0" is silly.  I'm guessing Toady never expects nor wants DF to get too big (fanbase-wise).

That must be reason of the learning curve. Only the chosen ones can play this game

[TychoTheDwarf]

That must be reason of the learning curve. Only the chosen ones can play this game

Chosen ones = people with reasonable attention spans and appreciation for something besides OOHSHINYGRAFIX and LOL SO MANY GUNS in a game?

[Leatra]

That must be reason of the learning curve. Only the chosen ones can play this game

Chosen ones = people with reasonable attention spans and appreciation for something besides OOHSHINYGRAFIX and LOL SO MANY GUNS in a game?

Exactly!

[dizzyelk]

Given how playable the game is (IMO) in its current form, maybe the expectation of a "DF v1.0" is silly.  I'm guessing Toady never expects nor wants DF to get too big (fanbase-wise).  It seems like a shame to have something this ambitious and entertaining chug along on donations and a skeleton crew while giants like EA crap out mainstream-friendly junk like great bloated beasts with chronic diarrhea.

You just made me laugh hard enough to fall out of my chair. That is the perfect description of the modern gaming scene.

[MarcAFK]

I think it's very unlikely we'll ever see a DF 1.0, I'm sure eventually DF will have enough of the original design goals in it to qualify as completed, but Toady will continue adding new stuff and bug fixes and it wouldn't surprise me if there was never a version 1.0 The first release will probably require an immediate bug patch and we'll actually get a 1.01, or hell even a 1.1 if toady randomly pulls some kinda new feature out that wasn't finished in time for release but which just happens to be finished while he's working on the .01 patch.

[Hiiri]

You can pretend 0.34.05 equals to 1.0.

Problem solved.

[MarcAFK]

Personally i see good old 40D as being 1.0 because it was relatively stable and i got lots of good gaming out of it, all these new versions are just bonuses, i see 2010 as being 1.1 and 2012 as being 1.2, mostly since in my personal opinion 2010's most significant improvement was Health care and the military, and 2012 is the Necromancers ( joy =D ).