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If you like Dwarf Fortress, you might like a game called: Factorio

by Olscore 10y ago

Deinumite 10y ago
That game sucked up a ton of my time. Still waiting for the next patch. It is really interesting and I almost feel like I am writing code at some points, having the machines automate themselves. I haven't even started playing with the circuits yet which allows you to do even more programming.
- BenoitP 10y ago
  > I almost feel like I am writing code at some points I have this theory that the game designer(s?) actually took some pages from a multithreaded programming book and turned them into a game. A kind of meta-game. Items are messages, transport belts are buffers with blocking writes, factories are actors, scheduling is roundrobin with preemption. Flying robots are a metaphor for references. Everything is as a pull model, and you can see the backpressure progating up the chain. I'd love to see the implementation. I bet there is no modeling, everything directly mapped to some core programming primitive.
  - fennecfoxen 10y ago
    > I bet there is no modeling, everything directly mapped to some core programming primitive. Yes, I'm sure the game's flying robots are implemented as a simple pointer and nothing else, no additional data to model for a name or any animation or where it comes from or where it goes to or anything like that at all.
kiba 10y ago
I played both. They're nothing alike at all.
- Bognar 10y ago
  They're nothing alike, but I find they scratch a very similar itch.
- executesorder66 10y ago
  Since we are discussing rougelikes and similar games, I am going to take this opportunity to recommend Cataclysm DDA[0] It's a rougelike in a zombie apocalypse. [0] http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/ http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/
cwkoss 10y ago
I love factorio. Try Bob's mods. Increases depth by about 2-3x. Quite fun.
etjossem 10y ago
If you didn't like the way Dwarf Fortress looked and handled, but you love the idea of a "roguelike colony builder" with a lot of potential for random happenstance and failure, this might be a more enjoyable choice: Rimworld - http://rimworldgame.com/ http://rimworldgame.com/ It's a bit of a spiritual successor, and like DF it's developed without a supporting team (by Tynan Sylvester)
- ucho 10y ago
  What I don't like about Rimworld (and Gnomoria, to lesser degree Banished) is early game difficulty. In DF all you have to do is build farm + still, after that all is up to player to decide. In other games missing a single element( like cooling in Rimworld) ends with almost everyone dead in single season.
  - etjossem 10y ago
    I don't think DF can be accused of being too easy early-game, but maybe that's just me.

If you like Dwarf Fortress, you might like a game called: Factorio

by Olscore 10y ago

If you like Dwarf Fortress, you might like a game called: Factorio

That game sucked up a ton of my time. Still waiting for the next patch. It is really interesting and I almost feel like I am writing code at some points, having the machines automate themselves. I haven't even started playing with the circuits yet which allows you to do even more programming.

BenoitP 10y ago
> I almost feel like I am writing code at some points I have this theory that the game designer(s?) actually took some pages from a multithreaded programming book and turned them into a game. A kind of meta-game. Items are messages, transport belts are buffers with blocking writes, factories are actors, scheduling is roundrobin with preemption. Flying robots are a metaphor for references. Everything is as a pull model, and you can see the backpressure progating up the chain. I'd love to see the implementation. I bet there is no modeling, everything directly mapped to some core programming primitive.
- fennecfoxen 10y ago
  > I bet there is no modeling, everything directly mapped to some core programming primitive. Yes, I'm sure the game's flying robots are implemented as a simple pointer and nothing else, no additional data to model for a name or any animation or where it comes from or where it goes to or anything like that at all.

kiba 10y ago

I played both. They're nothing alike at all.

Bognar 10y ago
They're nothing alike, but I find they scratch a very similar itch.
executesorder66 10y ago
Since we are discussing rougelikes and similar games, I am going to take this opportunity to recommend Cataclysm DDA[0] It's a rougelike in a zombie apocalypse. [0] http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/ http://smf.cataclysmdda.com/

cwkoss 10y ago

I love factorio. Try Bob's mods. Increases depth by about 2-3x. Quite fun.

etjossem 10y ago

If you didn't like the way Dwarf Fortress looked and handled, but you love the idea of a "roguelike colony builder" with a lot of potential for random happenstance and failure, this might be a more enjoyable choice: Rimworld - http://rimworldgame.com/ http://rimworldgame.com/ It's a bit of a spiritual successor, and like DF it's developed without a supporting team (by Tynan Sylvester)

ucho 10y ago
What I don't like about Rimworld (and Gnomoria, to lesser degree Banished) is early game difficulty. In DF all you have to do is build farm + still, after that all is up to player to decide. In other games missing a single element( like cooling in Rimworld) ends with almost everyone dead in single season.
- etjossem 10y ago
  I don't think DF can be accused of being too easy early-game, but maybe that's just me.