Here's a screenshot of the world-creation section of Dwarf Fortress.

Gentoo: [more]I became curious about an ASCII Dungeon Keeper - like game called Dwarf Fortress, on the weekend. From forum discussions, and the games website, it looks quite complex and quirky. I had to try it out. I'm running it under wine, on my Gentoo box. Turns out we need OpenGL support in wine for this to work...

My first roadblock was that there's no source (that I could see), and just Windows and Mac binaries. Of course, I expect Wine to come to the rescue.

I was quite surprised, then, when I found that it needed opengl, despite (from the screenshots) being text-graphic based.