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Dwarf Fortress, the free ASCII fantasy world simulator and rogue-like game will soon be getting a new version after a two-year development cycle. The long-awaited new version is slated to be released next July according to its developers.
The game has been in constant development for the past 11 years and its developers, "Toady One" and "Threetoe", have been living solely on fan donations since its initial public release in 2006.
A comprehensive list of the changes and additions has been compiled by the community and can be found on Google docs. The list includes long-awaited features such as multi-tile trees (that will hopefully still grow over time), people (and dwarves) of the world having long-term goals and dreams as well as a complete combat and dialog system rewrite.
All these features will contribute to make this accurate fantasy world simulator even more realistic... and possibly even more complicated to play.
(Score: 1) by Hyperturtle on Thursday June 05 2014, @10:59PM
I have also donated; twice in the past four years. I have opted for the crayon art as the "reward" each time.
I had always liked the nethack style of game, so this had a certain allure for me.
In my case, the fortresses always died a death of not enough CPU power...I have a 50 year fortress and a 60 year fortress saved away in case I someday have a computer powerful enough to run them faster than 15 fps.
Hopefully the new version has been optimized a bit more to bring me up to 20fps! Single core application performance is only going to get improved so much... especially now that the desktop market is gone.