Armok Invaders
What it is
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.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as an impressive example of building computation inside Dwarf Fortress.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2016, last 2025
What HN commenters said
“Though I see he has a new project (Armok Invaders) that looks pretty awesome.”
New Dwarf Fortress computing project that looks pretty awesome
Natsu, 2016-02 · Recommendation · in “Working Calculator in Super Mario Maker [video]”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: dwarf fortress, space invaders, turing complete, game hacking
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