Dwarf-Fortress

It’s time to look at the most popular posts on the blog over the last year. I was a little more apathetic about updating this year and my traffic suffered accordingly, dropping off by ~4,000 hits. The top posts haven’t changed too much, but here goes: Top Posts Remixed Objection, No Yakuza 3?, L4D2 (Again), and Pokémon Cosplay [Game Overview] (402) I know precisely why this link is top of the list. It features a stunning picture of Jessica Nigri very liberally cosplaying a Pikachu. It seems sex sells. Surprise! ...

About a week into January of 2010 Eric found and installed one of the best wordpress plugins I’ve ever seen, Wordpress.com Stats. Thanks to that, I’ve got some performance numbers for the site to share. Top Posts Remixed Objection, No Yakuza 3?, L4D2 (Again), and Pokémon Cosplay [Game Overview] (1,182) I know precisely why this link is top of the list. It features a stunning picture of Jessica Nigri very liberally cosplaying a Pikachu. It seems sex sells. Surprise! ...

It’s been a while since I put up a good, old-fashioned Dwarf Fortress story, so I’ve got a link to a great DF story told through fantastic illustrations by nomad (tim).

Happy Fourth of July! Recent statistics packages on my blog allowed me to browse search terms that lead to my site. So here’s what you’ve been searching in July along with relevant links and/or answers to your questions. mlb power pros 2009 - 68 hits MLB Power Pros continues to be a strong draw for my blog since I’m probably one of the few guys who talks about it. Real shame too, because it’s such a great game. Many come to the blog hoping to find news about the 2009 edition, but, if they’ve hit up my post they know that I’m skeptical that the game will come stateside. ...

Deep from the trenches, it’s time for your Monday video feature: Embedded Reporter. You asked for it, you got it! The high quality, super-graphically intense Dwarf Fortress intro.

Borrowed from After Action Reporter on why people should play Dwarf Fortress: The best answer, I believe, is presented by Damien Neil from over on QuarterToThree.com, read on… I built an arena. A pit on the bottom level for the contestants. On the next level up, seats for the spectators, with a pair of thrones forged from solid gold for the Baroness and her consort. A level above that, the cheap seats. On the top level, a retracting bridge extends out over the pit, so that unlucky contestants can be dropped in. ...

Insert another credit, because it’s time for your weekly video game news and you’ve just hit the Game Overview screen. We’re gonna take a quick break from talking about Final Fantasy villains until I take some time to figure out how I’m gonna tackle XI and instead talk about the game that kept me up until ~0345 this morning: Dwarf Fortress. You’ve probably never heard of this game, but this incredibly robust one-man (!) coding project will knock your socks off. Here’s how I got around to it: ...