While I was slaving away on my article about world generation in Dwarf Fortress last week I became enamored with the game's soundtrack; a pair of lilting, complex melodies played by a single guitarist ...

The enormously popular Dwarf Fortress is getting a new lick of paint – with the Steam release including new pixel art, tutorials and new music and sound effects to the previously ASCII art-only game.

The Steam launch of Dwarf Fortress is still off in the indeterminate future - "time is subjective," as its release date still reads. But creators Tarn and Zach Adams are busy working new and suitably ...

PARIS: Dwarf Fortress, a quirky independent video game that has been free since its 2006 release, is now among the online marketplace Steam’s best-sellers – to the surprise of its US creators. Set in ...

Dwarf Fortress is one of the most complex computer games in the history of computer games. How complex? In the game's discussion forum, one player asserts that after 120 failed games, he can finally ...

The New York Times once again shows up other mainstream press in an awesome article about the open source, ASCII-rendered game Dwarf Fortress: Dwarf Fortress is barely a blip on the mainstream radar, ...

Over 13 years playing Dwarf Fortress, I've seen my share of legends. I've witnessed one-armed dwarven generals strangle dragons as old as time. I've watched in horror as an artisan emerged from months ...

Dwarf Fortress might just be the hardest and most complicated game out there. It’s got less of a learning curve and more of a learning cliff. You’re in charge of everything and there’s a never-ending ...

Dwarf Fortress is similar to many “God Games” in which the player assumes the role of an omnipotent being concerned with the care of a group of virtual followers. In Dwarf Fortress, the dwarves are in ...

Having indestructible walls and moats that can’t be overcome adds a much-needed illusion of safety to Dwarf Fortress — your thriving community will inevitably fall into ruin due to your own mistakes, ...