3 ms·
Dwarf Fortress sounds to me like nethack in its difficulty but unlike nethack in its endlessness. You can play all you want, but there will be no end!
by rhdoenges 15y ago
Dwarf Fortress sounds to me like nethack in its difficulty but unlike nethack in its endlessness. You can play all you want, but there will be no end!
- rcxdude 15y agoa fusion between nethack and minecraft (and the sims) is a good description I feel.
- vessenes 15y agoDwarf Fortress is, in many ways, the anti-nethack. In Nethack, you can parse the source code to figure out nearly any situation, that is, it's a closed, nearly solvable system. (See http://sporkhack.com/design_concept.html http://sporkhack.com/design_concept.html for some commentary on nethack being 'solved'.) Dwarf Fortress, on the other hand, is totally emergent. Toady logs in and plays to check if his coding worked well, that is he goes looking for the situations he is referring to in his code and observes them. I love them both, but I'm enjoying dwarf fortress more right now.