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mEmO
Member #1,124
March 2001
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... has been performed. Do we dare hope for a release within 2 weeks? --------------------------------------------- |
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MiquelFire
Member #3,110
January 2003
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What are you talking about? --- |
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Steve Terry
Member #1,989
March 2002
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Well it's obviously this: http://www.hydratest.co.uk/ ___________________________________ |
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Arvidsson
Member #4,603
May 2004
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Dwarf fortress? |
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Felix-The-Ghost
Member #9,729
April 2008
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I didn't know what he was talking about either. ============================= |
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LennyLen
Member #5,313
December 2004
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I still don't.
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mEmO
Member #1,124
March 2001
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verthex
Member #11,340
September 2009
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{"name":"carnage_in_town.PNG","src":"http:\/\/static.allegro.cc\/image\/cache\/8\/5\/853004694ef01b961e30491f8a03cac4.png","w":640,"h":300,"tn":"http:\/\/static.allegro.cc\/image\/cache\/8\/5\/853004694ef01b961e30491f8a03cac4"} This is a screenshot from Dwarf Fortress???? Could someone explain what is going on...
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deps
Member #3,858
September 2003
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Slartibartfast
Member #8,789
June 2007
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Looks like some player slaughtered a human village and left the corpses by the road. ---- |
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Onewing
Member #6,152
August 2005
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Cypher said: All I see now is blonde, brunette, redhead.
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Myrdos
Member #1,772
December 2001
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I tried to get into Dwarf Fortress, but I couldn't stand the crummy user interface. The lack of graphics is fine, I can see where it gives the game a retro feel and encourages that area of the brain known as 'imagination'. But there's no excuse for the god-awful interface for controlling your dwarves. It's clumsy, slow, inefficient, difficult to learn, and in my opinion, wrecks the game. __________________________________________________ |
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Dennis
Member #1,090
July 2003
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I did play it a bit last year. I have to agree it could be a lot better with a more accessible interface (mouse driven perhaps with support for tabbed documents(like inventories, dwarf stats, etc.)). ___ |
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gnolam
Member #2,030
March 2002
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It doesn't have to be (actually, it probably shouldn't be) mouse driven, but it should at least be internally consistent - as it is, there's no logic to which navigation controls are used in which menu, shortcuts vary slightly (just so much that it becomes a problem) between item construction and placement, and so on. The rest could be enormously streamlined: certain parts are (even relatively speaking!) just horribly clunky, like the entire military command interface. Then there's stuff like the completely unimportant distinction between mined and constructed features, which leads to a whole slew of UI niggles. And the list goes on... (That said, it is still addictive despite its glaring UI flaws...) -- |
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mEmO
Member #1,124
March 2001
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I think the interface is going to be a bit more streamlined in the new release. Combined with the improved military management, it should be a lot less cumbersome. --------------------------------------------- |
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CGamesPlay
Member #2,559
July 2002
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It'd be great if it used a real interface; be it ncurses or a modern GUI. Just something better than the icky and painfully slow opengl-drawing-ascii that is going on now. -- Ryan Patterson - <http://cgamesplay.com/> |
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Chris Katko
Member #1,881
January 2002
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As a matter of personal preference, I dislike the graphics. I've never seen graphics like that, and I've played ANCII games (ZZT, Megazeux, Sleuth, ...). It feels really messy and hard on the eyes compared to something like these: {"name":"returntokroz.gif","src":"http:\/\/static.allegro.cc\/image\/cache\/e\/a\/eaaaa7df76fbd8fcababa04fdcaa91fc.gif","w":640,"h":400,"tn":"http:\/\/static.allegro.cc\/image\/cache\/e\/a\/eaaaa7df76fbd8fcababa04fdcaa91fc"} (The last one, is in fact still in text-mode! The game hacks the ANCII set in memory.) However, I do support your efforts! It looks really complex and impressive! "Materialistic things can't bring you happiness. Except Marshmellows--which are pretty much the same thing." |
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LennyLen
Member #5,313
December 2004
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Chris, you seem to be confusing ANSI and ASCII.
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Dennis
Member #1,090
July 2003
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I might give the game another serious try when the new version is out. Back when I played it, I didn't get very far. I only dug a few caves, built beds and stuff for my dwarfs but I kept failing at building a huge dwarven empire and eventually lost interest in starting over and over again (though I must say, it was kind of fun to fail, because all the different ways of failing I experienced were so unique and unseen from other games). ___ |
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