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So, what is this Dwarf Fortress business?
A Day in the Life of a Dwarf By Urist McBlogger It’s not easy being a dwarf you know. Constantly getting ordered around “dig this, dig that”, “build a floodgate here, release the lava there”. Those...
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Earthdance year 1052, Spring and Summer
I'm takin' over! (This is part of the Dwarf Fortress succession game that members of Gaming.SE are playing. This is the second turn. The first player has yet to write a post to publish here, but his...
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Earthdance year 1052, Autumn and Winter
(First of all, this is out of sequence, something which is entirely my fault for not writing this up in time.) Upon examination of the fallen leader “Macha” Besmarilral’s possessions, it has been...
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OpenTTD – The Gamer’s Train Set
It’s a sad fact that there are few successful open source games. The fact that Battle for Wesnoth continually gets pulled up as an example of a good open source game is proof of that. Not that there is...
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OpenTTD Game Diary #1 – the first passenger service
To follow up to my previous OpenTTD post, I am going to do a game diary of the first 10 or so years of a transport company in game. The game difficulty is a custom difficulty, equivalent to Medium with...
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QOTW #2: MissingNo
Back in an ancient era of video gaming, when a portable console was something risky and unusual, two games, Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue were released. These games were focused on the collection of 151...
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OpenTTD Game Diary #2 – Getting the Goods
Towns in OpenTTD take a few things to grow. The first is frequent, regular passenger transport. This will enable you to grow your first towns slowly, but it’s not enough for fast growth. The next thing...
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Game Dev Story
Game Dev Story is a mobile game for Android and iOS that revolves around the running of a game development company. You start off in a small office with two staff members, and must work your way up to...
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OpenTTD Game Diary #3 – Collecting the Iron
While my Iron line is making a profit since the last entry, it’s not really carrying that many goods. The bottleneck is the lack of Iron being brought to the Steel Mill. While I could resolve this by...
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Welcome to the Metagame
On the surface, the Pokémon games are deceptively simple – catch some Pokémon, level them up, fight eight gyms, fight the Elite Four, win. For the main story, that’s pretty much all there is to it. Ok,...
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