Towns Basics

Its towns, a new dwarf fortress inspired game. It basically is a graphical dwarf fortress clone. It's a tad simpler, but it's also just an alpha game. You can get the demo on http://www.townsgame.com/ or desura.

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[velprox1]

do a LP if this please!

[captnduck]

@velprox1 This is just a single video for now. I'm still busy with TAG and DF. Besides there

's not much more to talk about then what's in this video at this point in the alpha.

[bur1t0]

At 24:40, your scroll over what looks like some coal on the surface.

It's directly up from your buildings, about the same distance from the river as your town, but on the other side.

[captnduck]

@bur1t0 Yeah i noticed that to, when i rewatched the video. Oh well.

[landeyda]

Lots of haters. Dwarf Fortress is the best game ever. But not only that, it's one of the best ideas ever. If people take that concept, and make games based on it, then the idea gets better and improves. That's the basis of all game design.

[Sisquo08]

I love this guy! Remember watching through all his DF videos a long time ago. :)

Great stuff capt'n!

[TheHb0mb3r]

How do you pause the game? i cant figure it out!!

[TheHb0mb3r]

@anonekro actually, no. DF is to this as Infiminer is to Minecraft.

[Newbunkle]

Dwarf Fortress is not original either. It's a bunch of other roguelikes combined with Dungeon Keeper and a couple of new things sprinkled on top.

[Trakheed]

@anonekro I think the idea is it wont be just a dwarf fortress clone and the idea is to make something new and different to stand out from the rest.

By asking for money they can hire on new people or quit their jobs and do gaming full

time.

They are looking at a 2012 release window for full version then on to another idea.

-besides, the game borrows from not only DF, but also Diablo, Dungeon Keeper, Evil Genius, and even Theme Hospital

[anonekro]

@Trakheed

Except that Henry Ford made a fortune of of his ideas. DF is a freeware game made by gamers for gamers. Just because it's still in production and doesn't have a user-friendly interface, doesn't give someone else the right to steal the idea, casualise it and market it to the general public as their own for the purpose of making loads of money, a la Notch. Sure, it's not against any law, but to me it's very distasteful and these people will not get a cent from me.

[Trakheed]

@anonekro modern day cars are inspired by Henry Ford's original model T car, doesn't mean they ripped him off. DF has no user friendly interface and is a pain to master, but with this game, they have several people working on it, including a dedicated graphic designer to make icons, sprites, etc. to make it more enjoyable, these people deserve the money, but that's just my opinion. You could torrent this if you want, but i choose to buy it and support the developers

[anonekro]

@Trakheed

You don't seem to see the problem here. I'll explain. Person A has a great and original idea, spends much time and effort developing the idea and decides that he wants to share his idea (and efforts) with others for free (or he could sell it). Person B sees that this is a great idea, takes it a changes it around a slight bit and then sells it to make money. Notch ripped off Inifiniminer and now these people are trying to do the same with DF.

[soegel]

I just want to say, captnduck, your videos are awesome. I used to watch your DF tutorials a few years ago, and now I've started playing Towns, and there you are again, helping me out. Thx man.

[Trakheed]

@anonekro how dare they make money on a game they've put much effort into