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My teenage son - who, raised right, grew up on Nethack - absolutely loves this game, and will occasionally stay up all night and be found still feverishly worki

by pohl 15y ago

My teenage son - who, raised right, grew up on Nethack - absolutely loves this game, and will occasionally stay up all night and be found still feverishly working on some elaborate construction in the morning. From what I have seen, it is ASCII crack. edit: I guess it's modified code-page-437 crack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437 edit again: This article really is a very interesting story behind the development. Even if you don't play, it's worth reading.

joshu 15y ago
freakishly, the game actually uses opengl to display the grid of character sprites...
- efnx 15y ago
  haha! that's awesome.
- idonthack 15y ago
  there's an ncurses mode in the linux version. i use it to play over ssh, as my laptop is weak. the opengl is mainly for tileset support.
  - joshu 15y ago
    Oh god there is a Linux version now? Which means I can play it under screen? or from my iPad? Thanks, there goes all my free time.
    - idonthack 15y ago
      ipad play is probably wonky as df is heavily keyboard-based, but let me know how that goes.
- Freaky 15y ago
  It has half a dozen rendering modes too, due to various driver bugs and GPU performance profiles. There are massive threads on the forum of people trying different settings to squeeze out a few more FPS, especially on lower end hw.