ASHMALICE’S LAST STAND: DEREK YU’S TRIBUTE TO DWARF FORTRESS
Honestly quite old, but dug up again as Spelunky creator Derek Yu adds paintings of that game to his DeviantArt account, the illustration above is a tribute to a legendary anonymous Dwarf Fortress recounting called The Hamlet of Tyranny.
Yu summarizes the encounter thus: “Daneken, the captain of the guard, makes his final stand against the fire demon Ashmalice. He wields the sword called Endless Death of Tears and prepares to plunge it into the demon’s heart, avenging his fallen comrades.”
Theorem: if DWARF FORTRESS was made actually accessible & art directed by @mossmouth, it'd be the last videogame we would ever need, ever.
— Brandon Boyer (@brandonnn) January 26, 2012
I bring it up again not just because it’s completely stunning, but because every time I think about the still basically impenetrable Dwarf Fortress, I remember the tweet above, which I still firmly believe with all my guts, and which — now that Spelunky‘s been released — I want to give all my money to support a Kickstarter for.
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