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    Armok Invaders

    BaronWable

    1 HN recommender · recommended in 3 months, 2016–2025

    YouTube

    1:25 · 57K views · Feb 2, 2016

    A short demo of a playable Space Invaders game built inside Dwarf Fortress, with a downloadable map. It shows the game's mechanics used as a computing substrate.

    HN cites it as an impressive example of building computation inside Dwarf Fortress.

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    3 comments from Hacker News

    1. @NatsuFeb 2016· in “Working Calculator in Super Mario Maker [video]”

      My favorite is still the Dwarven Calculator: [LINK] Though I see he has a new project (Armok Invaders) that looks pretty awesome. this video

      RecommendsView on HN
    2. @munk-aJul 2019· in “Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete”

      Dwarfputers are a wonderful tangent of their own, with a not-unlikely possibility of flooding your entire computer with firey death in the form of magma in some of the more impressive approaches - this has been possible (but quite difficult) for some time, more recent game versions have made non-fluid based logic gates[1] more realistic and usable. Someone has built an (admittedly simple) space-invaders game[2] using df which is rather impressive. 1. [LINK] 2. this video

      CitesView on HN
    3. @musictubesMar 2025· in “Space Invaders”

      And of course Space Invaders was programmed inside of a Dwarf Fortress game. It’s simplified of course and not exactly real time lol. Wonder what it would take to emulate the full version inside of DF. this video

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