24/7 classical guitar (with dwarven vocals) to chill and build forts to.
since they really got to work on the Steam Edition in earnest. The fruits of that labor are really showing now, with Dwarf Fortress' ambitious worlds laid out in 32x32 sprites and tiles with, for the first time, an interface that could almost be considered modern.
In related news, and discussed during the demo, is Dwarf Fortress' shiny new soundtrack. The only music that the game has had for a long time is a looping guitar track, a four minute classical guitar piece played by creator Tarn Adams. Kitfox Games recently showed off a few samples from the new, full soundtrack of guitar pieces by various professional musicians, some of whom even sang in Dwarf Fortress' in-game Dwarfen tongue. They really keep the musical spirit that people have been playing DF to for two decades now.
As someone who has sunk well over a thousand hours into Dwarf Fortress since 2008, just before the introduction of a z-axis to the world, these are heartening things to see. The layer of accessibility and polish might not bring Dwarf Fortress to the mainstream, but it'll certainly bring it out of the niche-within-a-niche that it resides in currently. It's a glorious niche and all that, gilded and venerated like a holy icon, but it'd be nice for it to see some daylight.
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