Re: FREE GAME: Hammerting

Spalls Hurgenson  <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

Still... I'm not sure I want to pay $29 for the privilege. It may have
to wait until the next Steam sale...

The "ASCII" version is still free.  (I put ASCII in quotes because it
actually uses IBM code page 437, which includes a lot of characters not
in ASCII.)  If you get a good square ratio font for it then its kind of
like you're playing with tiles.  I got acustomed to it pretty easily,
but I've played a fair amount of Nethack and Angband.  The developers
were actually pretty creative in how they use all the characters available
in CP 437.

As Kyonshi says though the problem with Dwarf Fortress is that after
you get the hang of the game, your biggest difficultly is that game's
performance scaling is terrible.  Eventually your settlement will grow
too big, too complex with too many dwarves that the frame rate drops to
unplayable levels.

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