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TerminalDev's open-world city is drawn entirely in ASCII
A pseudonymous solo dev is building a multiplayer crime sandbox with no 3D models or shaders
Dwarf Fortress
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The dwarves can dream now in Dwarf Fortress
Dying by megabeasts, and by feelings.
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Now you have no excuse not to play Dwarf Fortress
Isometric graphics, you are the future.
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First Dwarf Fortress update in 2 years will be cataclysmic to leagues of dwarfs
With its first update in two years coming later this month, Dwarf Fortress continues to burrow through the confusing, inhospitable, and endlessly fascinating mantle of middle earth. Among the new features are a long awaited update to the Adventure Mode, the game’s more accessible built-in roguelike
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Two5six: a day of videogames and culture and werewolves and donuts
You should’ve been there.
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Road to Two5Six: Tarn and Zach Adams
The Dwarf Fortress devs have spent their lives making a game about life.
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Minecraft, No Man’s Sky, and the hunt for a true archaeology sim
Procedural generation is all the rage. But it’s missing something: life.
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The professor who discovered 80-year-old pixel art
If not for ASCII art, we wouldn’t have ASCII games like Candy box and Dwarf Fortress. And that would be terrible. So the way I look at it, we are greatly indebted to “ARTYPING,” which was invented in the early 20th century and done on typewriters. Some early examples of this forgotten art-form recen