With that reasoning, we might as well say that the honestly atrocious UI we have now is a "feature". And just because ascii is more difficult, doesn't make it superior either. And sure ascii can be beautifully minimalistic in its look, but the reason why people make new tilesets and graphics sets in the first place is because ascii really IS harder to learn and far more ambiguous. That said, if you do prefer ascii, then more power really. The entire game is product of one developer, Tarn Adams, aka Toady One, who has been working on Dwarf Fortress since 2002. If you can recognize them as new characters, that is. And it all takes place in an ASCII interface that looks imposing to newbies, but feels like the text crawl in The Matrix: craftsdwarf, river, legendary megabeast. With ascii, you pretty much have to 'k' strange new characters all the time. With graphics sets, even if something is unfamiliar to you, you can guess what they are by their appearance and where they are. Sure it's easy to pick out something specific against the large areas of pluses that make up smoothed floors, but how about against a stockpile which takes in everything? It's almost impossible to pick out something in ascii quickly from a non-uniform background. There's also the way these colors and characters interact with each other which makes it look far more cluttered imo. My favorite things to watch are the waves crash on the beach, and a river flowing into a waterfall. Is that W for warthog? Or is it a walrus, water buffalo, werewolf, William Shakespeare, warthog woman, water buffalo woman, werecamel, William Shakespeare's woman? I love the beauty and simplicity of Dwarf Fortress ASCII mode. The closest you get to a context clue is guessing what Dwarf Fortress thing starts with a particular letter. Guess wrong and the fun factor suddenly ratchets up. ASCII graphics arent seen much today, but here are some games that embrace them and use them.
Are those ganders and guineacocks, or are those goblins? Your fort's survival becomes dependent on your ability to distinguish between exact shades of colors at a glance (say, the difference between light gray and dark gray or the ability to pick out a dark character against a black background). Dwarf Fortress flooded fortress of both magma and water 1. There is no way to distinguish between a potter, a leatherworker, and a glassmaker.
For example, in ascii, all dwarves of certain related professions are blue. Can you really say that ascii makes it easier to distinguish between stuff?Īscii relies a lot on mere shades of colors to distinguish between different things which otherwise use the same characters.
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