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6/20/2025, 4:30:36 AM
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>no meaningful content updates in like 15 years
fpbp
dwarf fortress is a permanent amateur project and it shows. Toady should've "completed" all that he could have in the 2D version**, where things were simple and pathfinding was easy, and then when it got popular enough (as it was destined to, as history has proven with other games like Rimworld) THEN he works on the 3D version, with actual professionals with skills beyond his own, that has actual 3D graphics /physics /etc.
** by "complete the 2D version" i mean that things in the current version which would translate well, such as: 1. a user interface change so that all the directional or hotkey inputs are unified. 2. start a fortress anywhere on the world map with local resources, threats, etc 3. economy, trade, religion, secrets, emotion/memories, syndromes, editable raw text files; basically all the current major features. 4. the features we're NEVER getting, like dynamic lights and colored lights, which are infinitely easier/efficient to do in 2D than in 3D.
really... it was the easiest fucking thing, and instead of doing that easy thing, Toady said "Let's make this 2D game into a 3D game" and it utterly fucked the entire future of content updates for multiple years.
>no meaningful content updates in like 15 years
fpbp
dwarf fortress is a permanent amateur project and it shows. Toady should've "completed" all that he could have in the 2D version**, where things were simple and pathfinding was easy, and then when it got popular enough (as it was destined to, as history has proven with other games like Rimworld) THEN he works on the 3D version, with actual professionals with skills beyond his own, that has actual 3D graphics /physics /etc.
** by "complete the 2D version" i mean that things in the current version which would translate well, such as: 1. a user interface change so that all the directional or hotkey inputs are unified. 2. start a fortress anywhere on the world map with local resources, threats, etc 3. economy, trade, religion, secrets, emotion/memories, syndromes, editable raw text files; basically all the current major features. 4. the features we're NEVER getting, like dynamic lights and colored lights, which are infinitely easier/efficient to do in 2D than in 3D.
really... it was the easiest fucking thing, and instead of doing that easy thing, Toady said "Let's make this 2D game into a 3D game" and it utterly fucked the entire future of content updates for multiple years.
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