A SimCity inspired city builder where you design an MMO RPG

Re:A SimCity inspired city builder where you design an MMO RPG by anonbanker on Friday March 11, 2016 @01:34PM (#11268559)

I pray this actually happens. Dwarf Fortress would be amazing hooked up to this engine.

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Re:A SimCity inspired city builder where you design an MMO RPG by aaronjb on Friday March 11, 2016 @02:19PM (#11268816)

I've only seen DF on YouTube, could someone explain how another game would hook into it? Any examples of other games doing this?

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Re:A SimCity inspired city builder where you design an MMO RPG by erichurkman on Friday March 11, 2016 @04:03PM (#11269508)

Dwarf Fortress, as an example, has Armok Vision [0] that uses DFHack [1] which reads the data structures directly from the Dwarf Fortress process to provide an API layer to other tools and scripts. Armok Vision provides a 3D visualization to the 2D of Dwarf Fortress (in a separate process, by reading memory through Dfhack). It's pretty rad.

There's also the 2.5D "Text will be Text" plugin that actually alters how Dwarf Fortress renders tiles, stacking 2D planes so you can see more than 1 Z layer at a time [2].

[0] http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=146473.660

[1] https://github.com/DFHack/dfhack

[2] https://github.com/mifki/df-twbt

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