{"id":13122,"date":"2011-07-25T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ny-times-publishes-6-page-exposition-about-dwarf-fortress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/13122-ny-times-publishes-6-page-exposition-about-dwarf-fortress","title":{"rendered":"NY Times publishes 6-page exposition about Dwarf Fortress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s Monday, and as any gaming writer knows, there&rsquo;s nothing much to write about on Mondays. So here&rsquo;s a link to a 6-page in-depth article about Dwarf Fortress on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/07\/24\/magazine\/the-brilliance-of-dwarf-fortress.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>&rsquo; website instead.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s a pretty fascinating read, not only about the game&rsquo;s long and storied development, but also its two eccentric creators, one of whom lives alone with his cat, and the other with the pair&rsquo;s parents.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who&rsquo;ve never heard of it, Dwarf Fortress is a freeware, text- and ASCII-based roguelike \/ strategy \/ world builder game that puts you in charge of, well, a fortress inhabited by dwarves. Think of it as an old(er) skool sort of Minecraft, but with more&#8230; dwarves and fortresses, basically.<\/p>\n<p>Development on the game started in 2002, and a public alpha version was released back in 2006. And it&rsquo;s still in alpha, with the current release version at only 0.31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS IS IT, THE BIG TIME<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}