Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress Learn to Play the Most Complex Video Game Ever Made

Name: Getting Started with Dwarf Fortress Learn to Play the Most Complex Video Game Ever Made
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ISBN: 9781449314941

ISBN-10: 1449314945

ISBN-13: 9781449314941

Edition: 2012

Authors: Peter Tyson, Tarn Adams

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Dwarf Fortress (DF) has a reputation as the most complex video game ever made. The game is a construction and management game, with a complex physical modeling engine that belies the crude ANSI graphics. All aspects of the world are modeled, tracked, and affect gameplay: everything from weather patterns, erosion, the flow of magma, the movement of small animals, and the accumulation of garbage. Sound like fun? Apparently it is, but there’s a huge learning curve at the outset. This concise real time book will dampen the curve and serve as a gentle primer on DF gameplay. It’s not really a game guide so much as a celebration of an improbable manifestation of geek culture.In July 2011, the NY…

Book details

List price: $20.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/10/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 245
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.19" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Peter Tyson created the AfterActionReporter blog in February 2009 for reporting on, listing and writing great after action reports (game reviews through storytelling). He created the online resource "The Complete and Utter Newbie Tutorial for Dwarf Fortress." Tim Denee is an illustrator from Wellington New Zealand.



Foreword



Preface



Introduction



Playing God



First Steps



Filling Dwarf Bellies



Merchants and Trading



Dwarf Resource Management



Digging Deeper



Industry



Justice, Healthcare, and Vampires



The Military



Engineering


Afterword: Farther


Appendix


Colophon