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[eataTREE]

"A ridiculously intricate and arcane homebrew Dungeon Keeper sim, in active development with a strong modding community? Thank you, O God, for blessing this unworthy." I wasn't disappointed either.

And don't feel bad about using tilesets, the ASCII version does and always has given me a headache (and I played ASCII Nethack for years with no problem)

[MrFluffums]

Friend mentioned it in Skype chat with some other people. I tried to play it, and failed miserably.  I didn't understand the Embark screen, so I never actually managed to play.  My next thoughts were along the lines of "^@#& THIS SHIT" aka "RAGEQUIT".

I was bored one day, and remembered this game when someone showed me one of the "Difficulty Hilarity" pictures.  I tried the game again accompanied by the wiki, and almost immediately loved it.  From that time on, I was playing Vanilla.

Here's the part most of you will not like me for.  Later, I realized that it was far more to fun to build the fortress and make things over all else, so I ended up editing most of the RAWs to make the dwarves superior to all other races as combatants, from there, I enjoyed much longer living fortresses, which were very enjoyable, and got me hooked through and through.

[jimi12]

I heard about DF on civ fanatics forums. Googled it, read about it, seemed awesome. Downloaded and started playing it, and I was completely lost. Quit out of frusteration and didn't think about it for a few months. Then I saw something about it again and figured I'd give it another shot. Checked out some Youtube tutorials and been hooked ever since.

[Lancezh]

Epic stories here, keep em coming!!!

[Aramco]

That game sounds awful, why would anyone play something like that?                                             About a month later...                                                                                                               
Fine, I'll play it, just stop bugging me about it!
See? I told you, this game looks terrible!
What? I don't... does that one... does he... wait... Numbers?!
About four hours later...
Yeah, I'm still playing it, so what?!

That all happened about a year ago.

[NobodyPro]

"Minecraft is awesome. What's this Dwarf Fortress thing this guy mentioned?"
*Accidentally download 40d because of version name conventions*
*Add Mayday graphics first thing*
"Wierd, this tutorial seems broken. All the features are missing."

*A year later*

"Bored... *goes to Bay12 Forums* What's Blockedlances?"

*Another year passes and I learn modding*
"Dwarves in a Pressure Cooker- Story of a Volcano Fort! Must read!"
*reads*
"WHOAHHHHH!*

[Lectorog]

My friend was reading Boatmurdered while we were trying to play D&D DnD with him. I started complaining, so he showed me a picture from it. He explained that the red was magma, blue was water, and the rest was steam or dead dwarves. I read a bit, had no clue what was going on, and looked further into it a few weeks later.

I set up the game, but had no idea how to work it. I didn't know how to navigate the menus - I was sitting on the main and help screens completely unaware that I was supposed to use the num pad. I looked for some tutorials. That's when I learned what all DF could do. My mind was pretty much blown. I resorted to trying every key on my keyboard; I really wanted to play the game. I figured it out eventually.

[bryceharrington]

I do X.org support and came across a question on StackExchange, "How do I run Dwarf Fortress on a server with no X?"  It was worth +50 points.

"The hell is 'dwarf fortress'?  Oh some text mode game.  Ew, looks like line noise; people actually play this?  WAIT, what the F does it need X.org for??"

Download it, reproduce the error.  "It requires OpenGL???  WTF is a *text* game needing *opengl* for...!?!"

After solving the guy's bug, I just had to give it a go.  And here I am two years later checking the site daily and wondering when the heck the next release is going to come, like some junkie.

Moral of the story:  Be careful about fixing people's bugs if they're giving +50 points for doing it.

[iEpinephrine]

Threepanelsoul put up a link.  I saw ADOM, as a strategy game.  I was hooked before I'd even tried it.

Then I got bored of the early version I was playing... left for a few months or a year or so and came back and
it was all in 3D in a dynamic world like JADE was going to be... I guess you met your match, Thomas Biskup!

Edit: Holy carp!  A tech demo of JADE was released!  It feels like my entire youth waiting for a game finally culminated into... a really empty tech demo...

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

"I am going to lose."

[counting]

The first time I heard of DF, is when one of my friend who is obsessed with steampunk idea, trying to build a mechanical-gear-brass-made computer. He told me that there is someone who built a simulation of computer using DF. And I click the link to see what it is, and I just assumed DF is another sandbox game with poor I/O interface (it's pretty early version of DF, relatively incomplete). So I didn't give much thoughts about it back then.

After a long while, someday when I am playing minecraft, and another friend trying to build again a simulation computer in minecraft, also told me about the DF computer, so I am again intriguing with what DF is, and this time I tried to read about what's so special about DF. Then I suddenly realized that it's not only a sandbox game, but also an agent-based simulation, which the NPC's are giving enough autonomous to behave at their own wills. And THAT makes me interested in what DF is capable of, since I've been studying the experimental economics, which using agent-based computational economics simulation model (ACE) as a mean to understand what economic world is made of and how can it can be evolved.

Although DF is not the first game trying to emulate economic activities, but as DF building things from ground up instead of simulating with high level activities. This makes DF unique and an interesting platform to see whether there will be some different economic behaviors happening in a completely fictional background world. (in the future I hope, with a much more complete market system)

[JimmyBobJr]

The first i heard of Dwarf Fortress (In proper) was the PCPOWERPLAY (Australia) DF article, in which that OilFurnace story was made.

It was aweeeesooome.

So, naturaly i googled Dwarf Fortress, Downloaded it, and failed to even figure out how to embark.

Gave up.

A Year passes, and i find myself re-reading the article.

It was still aweeeesooome.

Re-downloaded, Managed to get to a embark screen this time.

Gave up.

Another long stretch of time passes, not quite a year, and i read the article YET AGAIN.

It was STILL aweeeesooome.

Didnt even bother downloading DF again.

A few months later, im sitting in my Digital Photography class in highschool, with nothing to do (I suck at Photography). I remember Dwarf fortress, and i google it. I immediatly come across the Wiki. I spot the rather large "TUTORIALS!" Button, and i click it. I see one the guides is labled "A Complete and utter nooby guide to dwarf fortress" (Or something) and click it. I read 5 pages before i noticed that this guide was....

AWEEEESOOOME!

That night, at home, i downloaded Dwarf Fortress and Dug. And dug. And built some beds. And found some carp. And dug some more.

it was aweeeesooome.

The next day in photography i found the entire archived eddition of "BoatMurdered".

I was hooked.

[Jimlad11]

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[rutsber]

I didn't have too much of a problem. Except I got the up and down keys confused so I thought you needed an up stair to go down...

[KillerClowns]

"Oh, c'mon. I play NetHack. How hard can this be to learn?"

As per the long-established pattern, hilarity ensued.