That made my EYES BLEED! WTF? Is the underlying game good though?
I'll read through it a bit, but AAAAAAAAAGH!!!!! :wacko:
This is the funniest quote from the site:
"Extended ASCII character set rendered in 16 colors (including black) as well as 8 background colors (including black)."
And this is the saddest:
"Craft treasures and furniture from many materials and improve these objects with precious metals, jewels and more."
Yeah man I'm there- crafting my dorfish ascii furniture!
DF is already most impressive game/simulator I have ever seen, and it's barely a third done. It's basically a fantasy life simulator.
The lack of graphics is so that the developer can focus exclusively on the mechanics. Everything from the civilization scale to the individual peasant is modeled. Every person has their own traits and personality which are far more detailed than CK2, all of which is both inherited and modified based on experience. Economically, you pretty much create everything using the crafting system and go through all(or at least most) or the real world steps. So to get a sword you need to mine metal(and each metal is different with relatively correct properties), build a smelter and metal forge(which requires building materials like stone, and also an anvil for the forge), smelt the ore(which needs coal or another ignition source), and then forge the sword. Of course, then the person/dwarf that uses the sword needs the proper skills or else it doesn't do them much good, which they can train using various methods.
There's really too much to go over in a short post, but if you can get over the graphics(there's also tilesets out there that make it at least look like SNES graphics and cause a little less bleeding) and terrible UI it is one of the most detailed worlds ever created in a game.