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Offline zespri

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"Dwarfs!?"
« on: May 28, 2011, 02:00:36 am »
Anyone have anything good (or bad) to say about "Dwarfs!?"?
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Offline Morslok

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Re: Dwarfs!?
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2011, 09:47:11 pm »
I've put a bit of time in to Dwarfs!? and I can say that it is a fun little diversion. You're an overseer for a little dwarf community and must ensure the survival of that community. It's somewhat strategic, there's a bit of micromanagement, but in general it's best to just let the little guys do their diggy hole thing. There's less than 10 ways to interact with the game, building walls, placing dynamite, making arrows for dwarfs to follow, turning existing dirt into stone so dwarfs can't dig through it, building outposts, and interacting with those outposts as well as the main building at the start. It seems simple when you start playing, but play an hour long arcade game and towards the end things can get out of hand VERY fast. Decent amount of fun for ten dollars, good time waster.

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Re: "Dwarfs!?"
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2011, 08:54:03 am »
Every time I look at it, I just feel like playing Dwarf Fortress, and then I get stuck for hours. :/
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Re: "Dwarfs!?"
« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2011, 04:45:45 am »
But dwarf fortress does not have the pretty tiles! And it has this terrible, terrible "losing is fun" bug!
 ;D ;D

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Re: "Dwarfs!?"
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2011, 01:04:10 pm »
But dwarf fortress does not have the pretty tiles! And it has this terrible, terrible "losing is fun" bug!
 ;D ;D
It does have pretty tiles if you use art packs instead of the eye-killing ASCII graphics. The "losing is fun" bug have yet to be fixed though.
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Re: "Dwarfs!?"
« Reply #5 on: May 31, 2011, 01:10:07 pm »
But dwarf fortress does not have the pretty tiles! And it has this terrible, terrible "losing is fun" bug!
 ;D ;D

DF has tiles and graphical renderers. And losing is fun, that's the point ;D

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Re: "Dwarfs!?"
« Reply #6 on: May 31, 2011, 01:34:49 pm »
I use DF with ironhand tileset myself. :)

I can also confirm its a huuuuge time sink.
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Offline Commiesalami

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Re: "Dwarfs!?"
« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2011, 02:41:04 pm »
Losing is also when the activity of all your dwarves and their pets cause your computer to start running at 1 frame per second. 

Or when you stick a few hundred dogs+puppies in a cage, link the cage to a pressure plate, and then wait for some poor goblin to spring the trap releasing all of the caged puppies in a single computer killing burst :)

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Re: "Dwarfs!?"
« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2011, 04:23:51 pm »
Losing is also when the activity of all your dwarves and their pets cause your computer to start running at 1 frame per second. 

Or when you stick a few hundred dogs+puppies in a cage, link the cage to a pressure plate, and then wait for some poor goblin to spring the trap releasing all of the caged puppies in a single computer killing burst :)

I think you mean winning. Just like the Fleshgates of Drowning - http://www.mkv25.net/dfma/map-5899-fleshgatesofdrowning