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You randomly generate a whole continent with mountains, rainfall and drainage, coastlines, etc. He used to be a mathematician but turned to game programming full-time and is supported by community donations.ĭwarf Fortress is an ASCII game, a roguelike, but a rather different one. I’m prepared to ignore forever the question of what constitutes a “normal” level of modesty 😉īay 12 Games is basically one programmer creating awesome things every day. That way each character would have to note only 5-6 of the 30, assuming all the rest are “normal”. It may be worthwhile to note only those traits that fall outside the middle range, and weight the roll to give more results to the middle range.

Obviously this is too complex for normal play. Basically you get an alignment system with 30 axes instead of 2.

DWARF FORTRESS ASCII WORLD MAP FULL

The full list of traits can be found at the wiki here.Īnyway, the sum of these, plus preferences in items, materials, and creatures, along with chosen faith and level of piety, becomes that character’s alignment.Įffectively, instead of a two-word alignment to act as a guide for behavior and feelings, you get a more complex character with a guideline for each type of decision he might need to make. Nature such as “is entirely adverse to risk and excitement”, and Man vs. Man things like “finds helping others rewarding”, Man vs. Instead, what if you chose or rolled character traits on a table?ĭwarf Fortress features characters who, rather than alignment, have a long list of personality traits. And defining what each alignment axis means can be difficult. But these are often vague and similar to each other. In all, the system allows for nine separate alignment combinations.

Defining this simple split has been done only imperfectly by thousands of years of philosophers.īut now you’ve got D&D’s Chaos / Law axis as well. And in the background it's also simulating things like the bolt's temperature, and when it hits the target, it determines what happens based on the density and strength of the bolt's material and the material of whatever it hit.In D&D, alignment is a trait of your character that you use to help decide how he reacts. Compare that to DF where when a dwarf shoots a crossbow it actually does a 3D simulation of the bolt's trajectory. And that assault rifle doesn't need ammunition, and is hopelessly inaccurate beyond 10m or so, for some reason. In Rimworld, you pick up a few raw materials and can manufacture an assault rifle in a couple of minutes. Many things require multiple stages of processing, and it can be very hard to find the particular raw material you need. In DF, bootstrapping an economy which can actually craft everything you need from scratch is actually fairly difficult and requires significant planning and investment. In addition to that, crafting and combat are extremely simplistic compared to DF. Forgotten beasts actually exist on the world map and have a history. If your fortress is wealthy, it will attract invasions. There's randomness, but it's not completely random.

Whereas in DF, pretty much everything that happens, happens for a reason. And random events seem to happen every few minutes. I'm not talking about random animals coming onto the map, that's little different from a legendary beast turning up in DF, but things like a solar event causing all your batteries to blow up for no reason. One element is, the mechanics of random events, which feel extremely arbitrary. all the intricate details of a dwarf's personality and the precise genetics of their facial hair), Rimworld's lack of 3D and fluid simulation alone make it vastly simpler.īut what really annoyed me about Rimworld, and why I never really got into it, was how "gamey" it feels. Even if you ignore details in DF that are generally unimportant (e.g. Rimworld might be more accessible, but it lacks DF's depth of simulation.