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PublisherO'reilly Media, Incorporated
ISBN-101449314945
ISBN-139781449314941
eBay Product ID (ePID)117244262
Product Key Features
Number of Pages245 Pages
Publication NameGetting Started with Dwarf Fortress : Learn to Play the Most Complex Video Game Ever Made
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2012
SubjectProgramming / Games, Video & Electronic
TypeTextbook
AuthorTarn Adams, Peter Tyson
Subject AreaComputers, Games & Activities
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight15.2 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2012-405929
Dewey Edition23
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal793.932/536
Table Of ContentForeword by Tarn Adams Preface Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Playing God Chapter 3: First Steps Chapter 4: Filling Dwarf Bellies Chapter 5: Merchants and Trading Chapter 6: Dwarf Resource Management Chapter 7: Digging Deeper Chapter 8: Industry Chapter 9: Justice, Healthcare, and Vampires Chapter 10: The Military Chapter 11: Engineering Afterword: Farther Appendix Colophon
SynopsisDwarf Fortress may be the most complex video game ever made, but all that detail makes for fascinating game play, as various elements collide in interesting and challenging ways. The trick is getting started. In this guide, Fortress geek Peter Tyson takes you through the basics of this menacing realm, and helps you overcome the formidable learning curve. The book'??s focus is the game'??s simulation mode, in which you'??re tasked with building a dwarf city. Once you learn how to establish and maintain your very first fortress, you can consult the more advanced chapters on resource management and training a dwarf military. You'??ll soon have stories to share from your interactions with the Dwarf Fortress universe. Create your own world, then locate a site for an underground fortress Equip your party of dwarves and have them build workshops and rooms Produce a healthy food supply so your dwarves won'??t starve (or go insane) Retain control over a fortress and dozens of dwarves, their children, and their pets Expand your fortress with fortifications, stairs, bridges, and subterranean halls Construct fantastic traps, machines, and weapons of mass destruction, Dwarf Fortress (DF) has a reputation as the most complex video game ever made. The game is a construction and management game, with a complex physical modeling engine that belies the crude ANSI graphics., Dwarf Fortress may be the most complex video game ever made, but all that detail makes for fascinating game play, as various elements collide in interesting and challenging ways. The trick is getting started. In this guide, Fortress geek Peter Tyson takes you through the basics of this menacing realm, and helps you overcome the formidable learning curve. The book's focus is the game's simulation mode, in which you're tasked with building a dwarf city. Once you learn how to establish and maintain your very first fortress, you can consult the more advanced chapters on resource management and training a dwarf military. You'll soon have stories to share from your interactions with the Dwarf Fortress universe. Create your own world, then locate a site for an underground fortress Equip your party of dwarves and have them build workshops and rooms Produce a healthy food supply so your dwarves won't starve (or go insane) Retain control over a fortress and dozens of dwarves, their children, and their pets Expand your fortress with fortifications, stairs, bridges, and subterranean halls Construct fantastic traps, machines, and weapons of mass destruction, Dwarf Fortress may be the most complex video game ever made, but all that detail makes for fascinating game play, as various elements collide in interesting and challenging ways. The trick is getting started. In this guide, Fortress geek Peter Tyson takes you through the basics of this menacing realm, and helps you overcome the formidable learning curve. The book' s focus is the game' s simulation mode, in which you' re tasked with building a dwarf city. Once you learn how to establish and maintain your very first fortress, you can consult the more advanced chapters on resource management and training a dwarf military. You' ll soon have stories to share from your interactions with the Dwarf Fortress universe. Create your own world, then locate a site for an underground fortress Equip your party of dwarves and have them build workshops and rooms Produce a healthy food supply so your dwarves won' t starve (or go insane) Retain control over a fortress and dozens of dwarves, their children, and their pets Expand your fortress with fortifications, stairs, bridges, and subterranean halls Construct fantastic traps, machines, and weapons of mass destruction
LC Classification NumberGV1469.25.D85T97
