Armok Invaders – a game built inside Dwarf Fortress

[Natsu]

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=11730

[Gygash]

More information on the Dwarf Fortress Wiki: http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/User:BaronW#Armok_Inv...

A video of it in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2cMHwo3nAU

[Natsu → Gygash]

Also, this is by the same guy (BaronW) who made the calculator in DF. The one where an overflow error leads to overflowing magma.

[wmil]

7z only download links just fill me with rage.

I don't understand why people keep pushing that format.

[RexM → wmil]

Why are you against the format?

[sliken → RexM]

How dare someone who made a game, is giving it away for free, and someone else is paying for bandwidth decide not to pick the optimal file format for all downloaders?

How selfish of them.

[wmil → RexM]

The size difference is trivial so there's no real benefit to .7z files.

However it's a non standard format so I have to hunt around for what the CLI tool is called, then install it, the look up the options...

Sure that's not a huge amount of work, but it just seems preposterous. Like using some 'gopher 2.0' protocol instead of http.

[Natsu → wmil]

Linux: http://linux.die.net/man/1/7z Windows: http://www.7-zip.org/ Mac: http://7zx.en.softonic.com/mac

[deathanatos → Natsu]

Heck, if you're using MATE/GNOME on Linux, Engrampa/File roller or whatever they call it opens this and many other formats just fine. I click the link, and a moment later click the downloaded file in Chromium, and it opens right up. From there I can drag and drop into a directory/folder in Caja/Nautilus. Painless.

[pmarreck → wmil]

Windows has a GUI client.

OS X and Linux have p7zip. And package managers.

It's not rocket science.

[wmil → pmarreck]

p7zip is not anyone's first guess the first time they see a .7z file. And I don't have to download anything to open a .zip or .tgz.

Compressing a directory is a solved problem with standard solutions. You really should have a reason to push something like 7zip.

[simoncion → wmil]

> p7zip is not anyone's first guess the first time they see a .7z file.

If you're running KDE (and I think GNOME), the built-in GUI de-compressors handle 7-zip just fine.

> Compressing a directory is a solved problem with standard solutions.

shrug 7-Zip compresses at least as well as RAR, and doesn't have a file format that permits feeding executable bytecode to a probably-not-very-well-examined bytecode interpreter. [0]

[0] True story! http://blog.cmpxchg8b.com/2012/09/fun-with-constrained-progr...

[pmarreck → wmil]

> p7zip is not anyone's first guess the first time they see a .7z file

I know, googling "7zip OS X" and seeing that the first link ends up directing you to p7zip, is incredibly hard.

> You really should have a reason to push something like 7zip

How about, it has the best compression available from an open-source compressor. RAR is not open-source.

[DanBC → wmil]

>And I don't have to download anything to open a [...] .tgz.

You do on some OSs.

http://superuser.com/questions/234649/how-to-extract-a-tar-f...

[swk2015 → wmil]

'Preposterous'

[cmrx64 → wmil]

Clearly it should be a cpio archive.