Month: April 2024

Dwarf Fortress’s Adventure Mode brings the sim’s chaotic spirit to CRPGs

Travel your own world, meet fascinating creatures, and put bolts in their necks.

Key art for Dwarf Fortress' Adventure Mode

Enlarge / See that fortress over there? You can explore it. And then die, when someone in your party remembers a tragic incident involving meat and perishes of sadness. (credit: Bay 12 Games/Kitfox)

"I'm crying for some reason," says Tarn Adams, demonstrating Dwarf Fortress' "Adventure Mode" for a Discord stream full of games writers and PR folk. His adventurer is crying, that is. "Something must have upset me. Probably the dead bodies… I have great grouchiness, though."

Adventure Mode, out today, builds on the graphical version of Dwarf Fortress and the work you've put into it. The adventurers you create and send out into the world traverse the overland and underground places you yourself crafted. This allows you to both appreciate the realms carved out by your imagination and also be a kind of dungeon master for other adventurers (with, hopefully, an easier fortress-swapping mechanic to come soon). You can also generate a new world if you prefer the simulation's weird choices to your own.

Release trailer for Dwarf Fortress' Adventure Mode update.

Everything about the standard simulation version of playing Dwarf Fortress applies to playing it as a hardcore CRPG. Everything has layers, all is described, and the combination of deep logic and utter silliness is unmatched.

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This Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 14 Snapdragon Edition could be one of the first Snapdragon X Elite laptops (leaks)

The first Windows PCs with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips are expected to launch this year, and if you trust the official benchmarks released by Qualcomm (and confirmed by a number of independent journalists), Qualcomm has finally achieved its goal…

The first Windows PCs with Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips are expected to launch this year, and if you trust the official benchmarks released by Qualcomm (and confirmed by a number of independent journalists), Qualcomm has finally achieved its goal of developing chip that offers better performance-per-watt than anything available from Intel or AMD. If […]

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Samsung introduces the world’s first 10.7 Gbps LPDDR5X memory

Samsung has introduced the fastest LPDDR5X memory chip to date, with support for speeds up to 10.7 gigabits per second. The company says its LPDDR5X-10700 memory also brings storage capacity and power efficiency improvements. Mass production is set to…

Samsung has introduced the fastest LPDDR5X memory chip to date, with support for speeds up to 10.7 gigabits per second. The company says its LPDDR5X-10700 memory also brings storage capacity and power efficiency improvements. Mass production is set to begin in the second half of 2024, which means that we could see the first devices […]

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