


In their most recent Steam community update, developer Tarn Adams shared progress made on the visual overhaul of the world map in Dwarf Fortress.

However, unfairly high US healthcare prices recently motivated them to begin updating it to appeal to more mainstream players.
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The game’s unbelievably rich systems have been in development by brothers Tarn and Zach Adams since 2002, and they’ve long been content to give the game away for free while leaving it up to players to mod it if the ASCII art was too ugly for them. Granted, graphic packs that overhaul the game’s messy ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange, the way in which text is encoded on computers) art style have long been available unofficially, but anyone who installs the game on Steam right now will still be greeted by an arcane world of symbols representing geography, resources, enemies, and their misadventurous dwarven charges. The always-improving game’s near-incomprehensible text art has long been many players’ main obstacle into mining deeper into the ore-rich mountain that it Dwarf Fortress, and now they’re getting their chance at last. One of the most complex video games ever made, Dwarf Fortress, is finally replacing its signature ASCII art with tiles that resemble actual graphics, and it looks so, so much better than before. Dwarf Fortress Is Finally Getting Non-ASCII Art, And It Looks Way Better
