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Dwarf Fortress @ Pax East + We won an award 🏆 Dwarf Fortress Update News

Hey Urists!

It's Alexandra here with a few community updates! With GDC and Pax East coming up, the team is quite busy with travelling this month. This means that we will be a little slow on game updates for a few weeks. But not to fear because we have some exciting community events planned!

[h2]Pax East After-Party![/h2]



You are invited to the first gathering of the Fey Mood Society, a gathering of Dwarf Fortress fans to celebrate the launch of Dwarf Fortress on Steam and all things fortress-related! Meet Tarn and Zach Adams, enjoy some delicious food and drink and meet other Urists at Lucky Strike Fenway. We will be in the Polo Room with pool tables, dart boards and a shuffleboard.

Friday March 24th 6-9pm ET

Tickets: $5

RSVP on Eventbrite

[h2]PAX East Panel[/h2]

Don't miss our Pax East panel where Tarn and Zach will be discussing their experiences with procedural generation in some of their favourite games. It takes place Saturday March 25th from 2-3pm ET in the Albatross Theatre.



For those who are unable to attend Pax East, the panel will also be streamed on https://www.twitch.tv/pax2

[h2]Best Strategy/Sim Game[/h2]

This past weekend Dwarf Fortress was awarded Best Strategy/Sim Game at the DICE awards! It's an incredible honor especially amoungst all the amazing nominees this year. You can watch Tarn and Zach's acceptance speech in full on Youtube



That's from me today! If you're going to PAX East I shall see you there and in the meantime, happy diggin'

-Alexandra

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Two of the pieces of media that I love most in this world are colony management game Dwarf Fortress and John Carpenter's The Thing, the 1982 sci-fi horror movie about an underground base in Antarctica in which Kurt Russell learns about the true value of friendship. Now, a saintly modder has brought those two blessed properties together with a Dwarf Fortress mod called The Parasyte-Thing.


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Dwarf Fortress adds deathmatch with Arena Mode update

There are countless ways for dwarves to die in Dwarf Fortress, a colony management game that I've sometimes described as "a game about entirely preventable tragedies." The latest Dwarf Fortress update adds a new one: gladiatorial battles between dwarves and any number of the game's many strange and violent creatures.


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If you're still intimidated by base building in Dwarf Fortress's Steam release, then there's good news. Patch 50.06, released today, has added Arena Mode into the Steam version. Arena is a sandbox mode where you can spawn any of Dwarf Fortress's various creatures, kit them out with gear, set special conditions, and then watch them battle it out. It is great.


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