Ah, so you're speaking about dwarf fortress as just the code sitting on a disk doing nothing. I'm speaking about dwarf fortress running on a computer with a pla

Ah, so you're speaking about dwarf fortress as just the code sitting on a disk doing nothing. I'm speaking about dwarf fortress running on a computer with a player using it. Both are art in my opinion, just different kinds. Same as a play scenario is art, and a play performed on a stage with audience participation is art as well, but different.