I was casting about for an MMO about which to do a Let’s Play. Someone suggested – perhaps jokingly, or perhaps out of a deep boiling hatred of me and my well-being – that I should do one about Dwarf Fortress. <\/p>\n
I am trying to stick to games which can be fed into the webcomic mill and which can be recognized outside of the “obsessive masochistic genius manager” demographic, which is a little narrow for my purposes. This rules out text-based games that use ASCII art. I mean, there’s just not much percentage in trying to do a comic about a conversation between a capital U and a smiley face concerning an upside down exclamation mark that will be comprehensible to one out of every ten thousand readers. <\/p>\n
BUT! If you’re craving to read about the gruesome and \/ or hilarious deaths of hapless Dwarven colonies, then Rutskarn has you covered. His first, second, and third attempts at the game met with the same rousing level of success<\/a> that people have come to expect from first-plays of DF. Which I assume means he led a group of short unruly alcoholics into the deeps of the earth, where the lot of them died badly. <\/p>\n