Dwarf Fortress
Do you guys know about Dwarf Fortress? This game is immensely impressive to me, based on the world creation.
Toady1, the coder behind Dwarf Fortress has created a system that randomly generates a world every time you play. Does this not excite you? Then check out what
kind of world he is generating. Here is a sample from one of the histories, written about in Toady1's dev log:
Quote: "In the first world I ran, pocket world zero, the only beast was a dragon named Atheli Coalparches the Flame of Mining ("Mining" because dragons currently have the mountain sphere). Atheli managed to survive all the way until the end at the year 300, long after the only demon had died. The dragon rampaged through every site on the map. There were no humans or kobolds, but Atheli killed 22 dwarves, 15 elves and 6 goblins, all in fair contests (as fair as they could be, with one combatant being a dragon). Many of these unfortunates were also eaten. In addition, Atheli devoured three cows, four horses, five mules, a donkey, six dogs, two cats, and a rhesus macaque and fox while tormenting the elves. The hoarding beasts can only steal one object at a time at this point, but Atheli still managed to collect a few crowns, four scepters, five amulets, six earrings, four rings, an idol, eight bracelets and a large yellow jasper (it tracks all of the materials for later adventure mode realizations -- one of the scepters was kimberlite, and one of the rings was made out of cave crocodile bone). During Atheli's last rampage, the dragon devoured a grizzly bear in the elven forest retreat."
Quote: "Ngoso and Bax were a couple of elven children born to abducted parents that were left alone to live in the goblin tower under their new human rulers. When they grew up, they both started shops -- The Enjoyable Paddle and the Lessened Healer -- in the year 45, and in the year 54 they both moved to the human town of Beersreined. The next year they were married and they both decided to wander the wilds looking for monsters to kill (they never found any, as the giants were off on the other side of the world and the dragon was dead). Ngoso had ten children in Beersreined, the third of which became the high priest of the god of revenge after both he and his father were converted by the new temple in 146. Ngoso never converted as she had become a dragon worshipper during one of the attacks prior to its death.
As a sidenote, the elves and the humans didn't get along very well, and in the year 60 the elves actually drove the humans out of the goblin tower they had conquered. The elves had no desire to live in a goblin tower so they left it abandoned. At this point, the goblin refugees that had been wandering through the mountains for fifteen years reclaimed the tower. They held it for a total of two years before being defeated by the humans again, who were then able to maintain control of the site until play began. I didn't check if any of the goblins managed to escape again."
Anyway, I am very impressed and wanted to share. If you are at all interested in Dwarf Fortress, or want any more information, Something Awful forums did a "Lets Play" on it a while back on a (very) old version of the game. You can read it
here. It's how I first got interested in DF, and it is funny as hell!
"Dwarf Fortress has taught me that all the world's problems would be substantially reduced had our parent civilizations never minted more than four stacks of coins."
- DwarfFortressWiki
