Friction Burns When Dwarves Won’t Do What You Want Them To By Ruth Cassidy • February 7th, 2023 Friction is FUN.
Past Presence Recursion By Emily Price • January 26th, 2023 Over the break, I started playing Dwarf Fortress, a game about avoiding the recurring, inevitable spiral of collapse for as long as you can.
The McMaster Files Putting the “U” in Trauma By Jason McMaster • July 12th, 2019 In the vein of Dwarf Fortress and Rim World, Barotrauma players make their own stories. And an uncanny number of them end in death.
The McMaster Files RimWorld and the Iffy Prospect of Early Access By Jason McMaster • November 13th, 2018 RimWorld is one of the handful of games Jason considers to be the best of this decade, a game many people tried to create but failed – the Dwarf Fortress-like.
The McMaster Files Kumite By Jason McMaster • November 25th, 2016 “When I say survival, I mean making your way through a virtual world where you need to seek shelter and to eat and sleep. There are a few games that, as always, stand out.”
Learning to Play By Gus Mastrapa • July 13th, 2012 Gus Mastrapa thinks trying to learn Dwarf Fortress is like climbing into the cockpit of a 747. Sometimes there’s nothing wrong with the familiar.
