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The History of Dwarf Fortress with Zach and Tarn Adams - Part 2

The AIAS Game Maker's Notebook

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The Importance of a Z Coordinate in Dual Fortress

The game had its X or YZ coordinate. The Z coordinate is just one strip of, like, a two dimensional square that you're looking at. You can press a button to go up and down and see the different slices. In an ASCII game, like in a 3D game, you can lean over. Right? So there's this solid thing as you dig deeper. That's kind of the structure. This is before the layers. There's one layer that has these rivers. And then you can dig into that and then you see more like hash tag type things. I'm having a, like, I don't remember which came first, but I think one of the biggest

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