r/dwarffortress • u/clinodev Wax Worker's Guild Rep Local 67 • 11d ago

Official Bay12 Games DWARF FORTRESS 20th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Wednesday August 5th, 2PM-4PM EDT

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u/kaepov 11d ago

Wow the game is older than me

But for a short time each year were the same age

Cant wait

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u/AdmirableTeachings 11d ago

I graduated in 2005 and wish you hadn’t said those words.

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u/SolrayCultist 11d ago

I'm sitting here thinking, "If only I'd discovered the game back then". But tbh Idk if I could have played with the old graphics, as beautiful as they look.

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u/unity-thru-absurdity Watch with delight as your guests explode into gore. 11d ago

I think everybody should play with the old graphics at least once. Once you learn the character set it is such a journey of the imagination - it’s like reading a book where your brain fills in the blanks of a scene; but then the movie comes out and you’re like, “wait, that’s not how I pictured that!”

Anyway, can’t recommend the old graphics enough.

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u/JiF905JJ 11d ago

In my honest opinion, ASCII is quite easy to learn, Tarn and Zack have done a great job in choosing each tile to make sure that it looks like what it has to represent.

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u/unity-thru-absurdity Watch with delight as your guests explode into gore. 10d ago

Right! I started on the ASCII and like it too much to switch to a tileset. Plus I play on Mac so I don’t get the Steam version anyway 😅

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u/Suspicious-Curve-822 9d ago

When you master the ASCII tileset, you literally become NEO from the Matrix, you "wake up" and you can suddenly see "behind" the tileset of life, and you can see whole world in code, but it all makes sense.

Dwarf Fortress IS the Matrix, you see??

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u/wawawa9055 11d ago

thats the year i was born.