It’s called Survivors of Ragnarok, and it exists solely to take the core experience of Dwarf Fortress and transplant it into something less hostile to the average gamer. The dwarves are still there, the building is still there, and the management is still there, but only now instead of ASCII art all over the place, there’s an adorable little 2D pixel world.
Those keen to take a look – and remember, DF is the game that was “doing” many elements of Minecraft before Minecraft was doing them – there’s a very rough alpha build available here.
Dwarf Fortress-Inspired Survivors of Ragnarok Alpha Build [IndieGames]
Sky Bolt
Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 2:27 AMThis actually looks like someone thought “Minecraft is too easy. Dwarf Fortress is too hard. I shall make something that’s exactly halfway between the two.” And actually, that’s just crazy enough to work. Could be worth checking out.
Joe Mama
Sunday, February 20, 2011 at 2:54 AMI hope this gets made, it’ll be awesome. I wonder how they’re going to transfer over the epic monsters (or whatever they’re called) that are randomly generated. Without text it’s going to be alot harder to have all the different features they have.
fortalyst
Monday, February 21, 2011 at 3:17 PMI love Dwarf Fortress. Have been playing for ages and am still learning new things about the game which surprise me but one of the biggest things I like about it is the fact that while you’re looking down on a 2d plane – the way the levels operate make it a 3d world. This sandbox environment is what I believe, in turn gave the same charm to Minecraft – you can build whatever you want in the world that you’ve created to suit your own tastes.
Am I wrong in seeing this game to be a simpler 2D platform environment of Dwarf Fortress? I guess until I hear more I won’t be sold.