Dwarf Fortress on Steam Announcement Teaser

Well, it looks like today’s big news is that Dwarf Fortress is getting a graphical version. Kitfox Games has stepped up to help with marketing, hiring tileset artists, and the like. The gameplay isn’t changing, and the original ASCII version will maintain its ongoing development: this is something between a port and a publishing deal.

It’ll be on Steam and itch.io.

Meanwhile, the Villian Update proceeds apace and Tarn Adams recently fixed a butterfly effect bug where a leader’s shrine encouragement selection was mistakenly nondeterministic, leading to a chain of effects that cascaded into alternate universes during world generation. So par for the course for Dwarf Fortress.