dwarf fortress

today on the home page of word press, the feature post was about a guide to this game called Dwarf Fortress. I had never heard of it before so I did some digging and found these gold links:

lets start with the hot word press post

a youtube video play through

gamasutra feature

and finally the dwarf fortress wiki


edit by jotapeh: Of course, if you're actually interested in playing DF, you might want to look here

Dan Paladin

Awesome Dan Paladin of (Castle Crashers fame) drawing sessions

dyson

these guys have already built a game around mining asteroids called Dyson claims to be "an ambient real-time strategy game with abstract visuals" where one can "command semi-autonomous self-replicating mining machines to take over an entire asteroid"

Some great ideas here but no alien nor dwarven miners...hmmmm

link