Our debut title, sword action shooting game BIRDCAGE, is out now! Shoot, slash and weave through bullets and enemies in this challenging, story-driven arcade shooter!🕊️🥚 store.steampowered.com/app/2158550/...

It is 3 in the morning and I have gotten custom night creatures to work. You know dwarf fortress eye of snodub and such I have gotten it so that when someone conquers your village they will SOMA(tm) you so bad and turn your copied ego into a gigantic murder robot. You'll also be able to be one.

ASCII is at once incredibly freeing creatively and offers up entirely new constraints in that you must convey one has encountered a hippopotamus-sized spider made of flesh and machinery equipped with a missile battery with only a single glyph and a short taxonomic classification.

I have been known to dabble in pixels from time to time. My posing is atrocious, proportions questionable, I don't know how to shade at all but I feel like this does an ok job of approaching Long Night aesthetics, at least for one particular faction or another. Others might be blockier or pointy.

What can you infer about OD&D if you ignore its actual influences? coinsandscrolls.blogspot.com/2025/11/osr-...

I should probably nerf firing speeds

Working on procedurally generating every domestic animal for my mod. i've finally gotten the core system working. Difficulty and price calculators for all creatures have been added too, everything will dynamically gain those values as they are generated. Should add a lot more variety between civs.

I've said it earlier but it really was a pleasure to be here, and the mods were really cool too!

Scheming about the options the siege update will give me. Hoping for tanks and artillery, will settle for letting my already extant mechs punch through walls.

The stream went great! Thank you to Kitfox for having me. If you would like to hear me yap about all the cool mods the vod is up www.twitch.tv/videos/26045...

The mod jam livestream will be on the 29th at 2 pm. This is my first time doing any sort of major public speaking role so I'm at once terrified and very excited. It's an honor to be there though so I hope I'll make a decent commentator.

I'm torn between posting more about progress updates and not, remembering that talking about something can feel the same as doing it and so speaking as if it is done saps your motivation. But also engagement is nice, so if people have questions about DF or my work I'm open to answering them here.

I'm continuing my dark deeds. Did you know the maximum amount of castes (subtypes) that can be contained within a single dwarf fortress creature is 32,767? That's a considerable amount of variants and yet I am already hitting the quadruple digits. Lua is great for this. I used to do it by hand.

extremely good noitalike but instead of wands you create immense ridiculous contraptions and you are some kind of robot maid store.steampowered.com/app/2769780/

New lore, just in time for the supermoon: incunabuli.com/lore/a-moon-...

If you're at all interested give it a shot, its easier than you think to mod this game and fun too.

random old timey caricaturists and satirists are out there dreaming up monsters that ttrpg manuals wish they could think up and they are all just metaphors for like societal ills and such. Put these guys in a statblock please and thank you.

Ive been going insane with excitement over this and now it is finally public. Dwarf Fortress's official modjam is coming soon! itch.io/jam/creature... I'll be one of the organizers and will be helping people with submissions and getting things set up. I can't overstate how cool this is. 1/2

I don't really know the review-to-time math to determine if what I'm saying is true but this game feels insanely underrated. I'm having a great time with it. Smooth gameplay and a drip-fed story that is delivered comprehensibly. Also the art is really good. store.steampowered.com/app/1374970/...

Secret things are happening. Gonna be cruising for a bit. Excited to announce things in the future.

go look at Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum its good and just came out in 1.0 store.steampowered.com/news/app/154...

First bugfix for the Long Night is out, and honestly its not as bad as I expected. Still more to come ofc but this feels like a decently stable point. I may be speaking to early of course but still! Promising.

shoutout to the real skunk at my window last night mere inches away from the sill as i was in a voice call exposing my entire friend group to the sound of my growing disbelief at this and realizing my window was open and me scrambling over all my furniture to close it before an incident occurred.

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Jump, climb, slide and uncover the truth on October 2nd Available for wishlists today: > xbox.com/games/store/... > store.playstation.com/concept/1001... Switch page - coming soon!

Hey so I have made a gigantic update for my biggest mod, The Long Night. Here's the link, context in thread: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/... I also have a website for it now! Thank you to Neocities: longnightdf.neocities.org 1/10

Still kicking btw, just got held up by an unfortunate bug I can't do much about. I've reported it and either it gets fixed or I figure out a workaround. Otherwise very excited to introduce upcoming content.

I dream of a tower i cannot reach.

The Kickstarter for Ersatz is LIVE! Consider supporting the production of a solo-animated indie pilot! When a nameless amnesiac wakes up in a bunker, they're immediately thrust into the trenches of an endless war. Trailer below 🌟

A humble domestic feline (me) dropping a dead rat (absurdly niche bug i found by pushing the boundaries of dwarf fortress far beyond what is reasonable) in the house (the kitfox discord) for the nth consecutive time (I will do it again)

Born to a family of near-baseline neopeasants, Jep Amiunni joined a temple to a local network deity, became a high-functioning cyberpsycho and then spent centuries continuing to work for her digital patron. Many such cases.

Still working on the mod btw. I am in the home stretch so that's fun. Also I keep running into crazy edge cases the vanilla game never had to deal with so I've ended up contributing to a handful of bugfixes, which is always fun. Happy to help contribute to the DF community in my bumbling forward.

This is really good store.steampowered.com/app/3684610/...

Another product of the procgen system.

New megastructure game I have had wishlisted for quite some time. Hoping it is good. store.steampowered.com/app/3034670/...

Transcript of a battle in the version of the mod update I'm testing. In summary I was ambushed by a rogue machine, it hacked my systems to debuff me, and then blew up my hand with its coilgun before I could take it out with my rotary cannon. You know, normal dwarf fortress things.

Modders just became more powerful because the Lua update is now live on Steam and itchio. And we we have two new tutorials to help! 📖 Read about the update 📺 Watch the tutorials

just a thing you'll be able to encounter in an upcoming version of my mod. It took days to get the weapons to spawn right and I'm quite pleased to see that they do. You can also play as one, but you don't get a built-in weapon system, you gotta buy them.

wretched little tardigrade things swarming over the corpse of a rhinoceros-sized salamander-analog. I don't know how it happened but corpse-eating vermin go crazy in this upcoming update. I kind of like it, it reminds me of a whalefall and makes corpses very prominent on the map.

Completely unrelated to my usual posting, ep 2 of Slavic Fairytale S.T.A.L.K.E.R The Animation (Courier) just dropped after like 5 years. I quite liked episode 1 so this is cool. youtu.be/Cbf9CwwBybw

It's my birthday, consider checking out my art! I'm an animator and artist working on my indie pilot, Ersatz, which i've been animating by myself. It's almost done and should be out by this year❣️ #ersatz #indieanimation #indiepilot

It's fun the way the limitations of modding (or any medium) can lead to unexpected narratives. If you add mechs to DF as war animals every hamlet would have 100 of them because DF is balanced for war dogs. So you have to make them transformed people to keep them rare, which means they have feelings.

Depths of the megastructure. A flooded labyrinth of machinery and glowing mold. Unsafe. As much as the graphical update of Dwarf Fortress is super cool I feel like there's a beauty to ASCII that can get overlooked. With the right colors, prose, and symbols you can paint a really evocative image.

wave pool in the megastructure (colors and tiles are mine, everything else is DF in its natural habitat)

Some creatures of the Long Night, the product of considerable struggling with a lua-based procgen system. I still have a long ways to go, but this is progress.

just posting to signal boost this

shoutout to the latest dwarf fortress update giving ranged weapons variable aiming difficulties and reload times. I can now make sniper rifles actually mechanically more accurate instead of just making them shoot harder and hoping people buy it because i named it sniper rifle and put a scope on it.

An exosuit based on a description from one seen in The Long Night mod for Dwarf Fortress- a really cool complete overhaul by @squamousmodsman.bsky.social Check it out here!: steamcommunity.com/profiles/765... (forgot the axe bayonet dammit) #exosuit #mech #sci-fi #illustration #robot

For anyone interested, the Long Night has been updated! It's for experimental, so its only available for the Steam version (for now). Features include a vastly expanded procedural generation system for civilizations, new languages, and an overhaul of armor types to provide a lot more variety. 1/2

Still alive btw. Working for a procedural generation system for civilizations which uses flowchart logic ie if A result is rolled choose from table list B for future rolls. I could yap about how much easier this makes my life but take my word for it that it will be cool when I make it work.