I just plugged into Dwarf Fortress by Bay 12 Games for the first time this week. So far I think it is fun, exciting, and challenging. It is currently in Alpha stage development, but is very playable.
I run Ubuntu Karmic 64-bit and the game was a bit of a challenge to install. I had not yet loaded the 32-bit libs so I had to retro my system to get the libncursesw.so.5 to identify correctly. Then I found that Ubuntu is only supporting libjpeg62 at this time so I had to compile a 32-bit version of libjpeg.so.8.0.1 and make a link to it in the [df]/libs file called libjpeg.so.8 and that was it.
For your convenience I have made the file available here:
Or you can go to http://www.ijg.org and get the code to compile it yourself.
As soon as you get a chance, check this one out!
(don’t forget to sign up to the forums @ http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php)
[...] Update: Some people have problems with a missing libjpeg.so.8.0.1 – A fellow Scoundrel has provided a link to the source as well as his compiled version. In Ubuntu, you can play it by double-clicking [...]