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by prawn 3642 days ago
If he was all substance and no style, wouldn't he have a plain background colour that was about legibility, and inline any necessary images?

This strikes me as a particular, intentional style.

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Certainly. It was just the best/easiest way I could think to describe it in a single sentence.

Dwarf fortress is fairly unique in style. I could say it's style is good, but I'd have to describe the game, it's culture, it's development history and how the minimal, perhaps unclean and cludgy style can help weave your imagination into it's narrative.

He could clean up the site, but I think it helps players understand the contract they are getting into by playing this game. A clean website would misrepresent dwarf fortress and it's style.