NatsuFeb 2016Recommends
My favorite is still the Dwarven Calculator: [link] Though I see he has a new project (Armok Invaders) that looks pretty awesome. ▶ this video
in “Working Calculator in Super Mario Maker [video]” · View on HN
Armok Invaders
Armok Invaders on HackerTube: recommended by 1 Hacker News commenter across 1 month, 2016–2025.
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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.
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“Though I see he has a new project (Armok Invaders) that looks pretty awesome.”
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3 Hacker News comments link this video. Each one links back to its thread.
musictubesMar 2025Cites it
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
in “Space Invaders” · View on HN
munk-aJul 2019Cites it
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
in “Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete” · View on HN
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Speedrunning, glitches & game hackingComputability & complexity theoryGaming culture & analysisdwarf fortressspace invadersturing completegame hacking