Armok Invaders
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN cites it as an impressive example of building computation inside Dwarf Fortress.
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.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2016 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Recommends Natsu · 2016-02 · on “Working Calculator in Super Mario Maker [video]”
My favorite is still the Dwarven Calculator: [LINK] Though I see he has a new project (Armok Invaders) that looks pretty awesome. [this video]
Cites munk-a · 2019-07 · on “Cities: Skylines Is Turing Complete”
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]
Cites musictubes · 2025-03 · on “Space Invaders”
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]