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Dwarf Fortress is a popular game, but it's progress has been stalled for years. One of its big issues is performance. For an ascii game. If anything, it is an
by honkycat 8y ago
Dwarf Fortress is a popular game, but it's progress has been stalled for years.
One of its big issues is performance. For an ascii game.
If anything, it is an example of how saying "Eh, screw it." can stall your progress
- Smithalicious 8y agoWhat do you mean by "stalled for years"? I haven't played in a while but according to the website[0] the last development progress wasn't even a month ago. [0]http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/ http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/
- npunt 8y agoDF does massively complicated and computationally expensive simulations. It eats CPUs alive. How it shows those results (ascii, tile pack, etc) has nothing to do with it - it isn't GPU-bound the way just about every other game is, because it's as much a simulation as a game.