57K views · Feb 2, 2016 · 1:25 · 1 HN recommender · 3 mentions · discussed 2016–2025
A short demo of a playable Space Invaders game built inside Dwarf Fortress, with a downloadable map. It shows the game's mechanics used as a computing substrate.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN cites it as an impressive example of building computation inside Dwarf Fortress.
“Though I see he has a new project (Armok Invaders) that looks pretty awesome.”HN comment, 2016
“Though I see he has a new project (Armok Invaders) that looks pretty awesome.”
New Dwarf Fortress computing project that looks pretty awesome
My favorite is still the Dwarven Calculator: link Though I see he has a new project (Armok Invaders) that looks pretty awesome. this video
“Someone has built an (admittedly simple) space-invaders game[2] using df which is rather impressive.”
Simple space-invaders game built inside Dwarf Fortress
Dwarfputers are a wonderful tangent of their own, with a not-unlikely possibility of flooding your entire computer with firey death in the form of magma in some of the more impressive approaches - this has been possible (but quite difficult) for some time, more recent game versions have made non-fluid based logic gates[1] more realistic and usable. Someone has built an (admittedly simple) space-invaders game[2] using df which is rather impressive. 1. link 2. this video
“Space Invaders was programmed inside of a Dwarf Fortress game.”
Space Invaders programmed inside Dwarf Fortress
And of course Space Invaders was programmed inside of a Dwarf Fortress game. It’s simplified of course and not exactly real time lol. Wonder what it would take to emulate the full version inside of DF. this video
