I thought it was developed by the two brothers? I've seen talks and interviews by both brothers on DF.
like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMRsScwdPcE
How Dwarf Fortress is built
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#92This is a little bit of a hijack but if I wanted to start coding games as a side project, where would I start? Which platform? Mobile, PC, console? Any good introductions on the subject of solo game development? I know I can google this, but I trust HN users more than the Google algo.
Why don't you start with an idea and self-awareness of your strengths?
You might be good at puzzles. Or stories. Maybe visuals ain't your thing and you can write a text based game - there are great engines for that. Maybe you're a great dev and can start hack your own Dwarf Fortress and keep on doing it for the rest of your life.
Gaming and tech behind is so varied that whoever you are, you'll find something that plays to your skills.
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
While Git is not without it's complexities, but as a developer who must use it with teams anyways, I find there are very simple workflows with almost no cognitive load that I'm able to use for my personal projects. Not only does this give me snapshots of my projects from any point in time, but backups as well since I use a free GitLab account as well.
Yeah sure, but for someone who's workflow started 20 years ago without Git, it shouldn't be at all surprising that they kept not using Git for a long time. There's really no reason to be surprised at all about this unless you're the kind of person who never did any programming before, like, 2010 and lack the imagination or knowledge to understand how programming could be done without it.
I can't disagree with that. We must all make wise decisions with endless competing "priorities" and limited time.
As someone who is on the other side and believes in the value of continuously growing one's skills, I want to convince people that Git has value in learning and using. More tools in our toolbelt makes us more effective craftsmen. Which the DF developer did get around to doing...
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#94I know I will regret asking it… but what’s the modern way of starting playing DF?
Not exactly modern, but the Captain Duck Dwarf Fortess Video Tutorial[1] is still a great tutorial.
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#95> What’s your favorite bug and what caused it? > A: It’s probably boring for me to say, but I just can’t beat the drunken cat bug... That was the one where the cats were showing up dead all over the tavern floor, and it turned out they were ingesting spilled alcohol when they cleaned their paws. I think that bug explains very well just how deeply complex Dwarf Fortress really is. Drinks can be spilled. Some drinks ha…
I wish there was a description of how this works technically
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#96> What’s your favorite bug and what caused it? > A: It’s probably boring for me to say, but I just can’t beat the drunken cat bug... That was the one where the cats were showing up dead all over the tavern floor, and it turned out they were ingesting spilled alcohol when they cleaned their paws. I think that bug explains very well just how deeply complex Dwarf Fortress really is. Drinks can be spilled. Some drinks ha…
I wish there was a description of how this works technically
ericschn below has a link to a video of Tarn explaining it. It's wonderful.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hickey nails this one in his talks. When you make something a class, that's NOT an abstraction, that's a concretion. You make a Tool class, you haven't abstracted what a tool is, you've made a fixed decision about what it is. For games that want this level of complex interaction between components, entity component systems are the way to go.
I’d love a reference to this talk.
https://youtu.be/2V1FtfBDsLU?t=2268
Goes until 43:25.
The whole talk is worth watching. It's basically about the higher level problems of business app development, how to address them, and how Clojure does address them.
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#98This is a little bit of a hijack but if I wanted to start coding games as a side project, where would I start? Which platform? Mobile, PC, console? Any good introductions on the subject of solo game development? I know I can google this, but I trust HN users more than the Google algo.
I think the first thing to figure out is: do you want to make games or game engines? Or is there a specific part of game development that you are particularly interested in? Back in the year 2000 I was very into Level Design. Back then the FPS genre just took off and I happened to stumble into a "Worldcraft.exe" in a folder in the CD of Half-Life.
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#99> What’s your favorite bug and what caused it? > A: It’s probably boring for me to say, but I just can’t beat the drunken cat bug... That was the one where the cats were showing up dead all over the tavern floor, and it turned out they were ingesting spilled alcohol when they cleaned their paws. I think that bug explains very well just how deeply complex Dwarf Fortress really is. Drinks can be spilled. Some drinks ha…
Not sure what's in the code, but I think each cat (which is some sort of entity by itself) is composed by body parts, which at the lowest level owns a bunch of attributes/components. Would that make sense?
The bug in this case was the minimum alcohol value a cat could like from its paws was above the cats LD100, so if they licked their feet when soaked in beer they would die.
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#100> What’s your favorite bug and what caused it? > A: It’s probably boring for me to say, but I just can’t beat the drunken cat bug... That was the one where the cats were showing up dead all over the tavern floor, and it turned out they were ingesting spilled alcohol when they cleaned their paws. I think that bug explains very well just how deeply complex Dwarf Fortress really is. Drinks can be spilled. Some drinks ha…
10 years ago, there was this article about another unexpected behaviour:
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-o...