# How did you get introduced to cataclysm

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**Created:** [February 11, 2015, 5:04am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-did-you-get-introduced-to-cataclysm/8896 "2015-02-11T05:04:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 5:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-did-you-get-introduced-to-cataclysm/8896/21 "2015-02-11T17:29:49Z")

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watching random youtubve vid about roguelikes.

someone making a 15 best roguelikes list.

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**Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-did-you-get-introduced-to-cataclysm/8896/22 "2015-02-11T17:58:06Z")

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geez, I’m not too sure,… If I remember correctly, it was Zemalf doing a let’s play of Cataclysm DDA, then Aavak’s let’s play. I was all like “Me too, Me Too!” and started my own Let’s play of Cataclysm. (was 0.A at the time) CDDA kind of ruined other zombie games for me, I play other zombie games (like State of Decay for example) and I keep wishing that some of the CDDA features were in game. Just like how Dwarf Fortress ruined other civ building games for me.

I guess that’s the nature of roguelikes, especially the ascii ones. When you don’t have to worry about making shiny graphics, you can concentrate on depth of game content instead.

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**Author:** ![Illogical\_Blox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/73ab20/32.png) [@Illogical\_Blox](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Illogical_Blox)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 8:12pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-did-you-get-introduced-to-cataclysm/8896/23 "2015-02-11T20:12:36Z")

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[quote=“Rivet, post:2, topic:8896”]Reading the DF forums, came across a topic about the original Cataclysm.

Tried it out, and started playing around on Whales’ forum maybe six months before he dropped the project, so I migrated here.[/quote]  
Me too, except the topic was about DDA.

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**Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-did-you-get-introduced-to-cataclysm/8896/24 "2015-02-11T20:25:50Z")

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I had originally been checking up on whales cataclysm, and decided that I would eventually play it. When I finally did go to play it, I found it’s forums empty, and a thread linking to DDA. Started playing on version 0.6, and finally made an account last year.

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**Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 8:33pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-did-you-get-introduced-to-cataclysm/8896/25 "2015-02-11T20:33:13Z")

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[quote=“Illogical\_Blox, post:23, topic:8896”][quote=“Rivet, post:2, topic:8896”]Reading the DF forums, came across a topic about the original Cataclysm.

Tried it out, and started playing around on Whales’ forum maybe six months before he dropped the project, so I migrated here.[/quote]  
Me too, except the topic was about DDA.[/quote]

so it is common 🙂

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**Author:** ![Perigrin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/perigrin/32/262_2.png) [@Perigrin](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Perigrin)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 9:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-did-you-get-introduced-to-cataclysm/8896/26 "2015-02-11T21:51:10Z")

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Actually, the root of the way I got here was roblox. My little brother made a roblox account, I made an account to play with him, played a game called apocalypse rising, it linked to dayz and basicly was dayz, I played dayz and joined the forums, and now here I am.

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**Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 9:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-did-you-get-introduced-to-cataclysm/8896/27 "2015-02-11T21:56:09Z")

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DF forum’s DDA topic, as seems to be a common case around here.

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**Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 10:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-did-you-get-introduced-to-cataclysm/8896/28 "2015-02-11T22:23:00Z")

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Jefmajor’s first LP of it. Didn’t really have much of an interest in roguelikes. Played Dwarf Fortress a bit, many years ago. Discovered Jef, discovered this and it ignited my love for roguelikes.

Thank you, developers.

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**Post date:** [February 11, 2015, 11:59pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-did-you-get-introduced-to-cataclysm/8896/29 "2015-02-11T23:59:03Z")

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It was Jefmajor’s LPs of DDA for me too! It watched a lot of those videos over a fairly long time, but since I found that I wanted to keep going back and see more of the game, I eventually decided to take the plunge and try it myself sometime in early 2014. I was hesitant because (confession time) I normally don’t like roguelikes.

But then I loved it! It was my favourite game of last year. The graphical tilesets I tried were all too big though - couldn’t see enough of the game world - until I tried HRose’s ‘RetroASCII’ tileset. I loved the way it looked, but it was unfinished, so I started adding to it… then signed up here to see if anyone wanted what I’d done with it.

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**Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 12:59am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-did-you-get-introduced-to-cataclysm/8896/30 "2015-02-12T00:59:15Z")

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Played a lot of DCSS; got bored with it; poked around Roguebasin, found C:DDA. I had tried it before, for something like 5min, but had no patience to learn the systems, and found the ASCII graphics a bit difficult to understand - since it wasn’t just a bunch of interconnected rooms in the shape of a dungeon, haha. I also found it too hard. Since I didn’t like Rogue Apocalypse and didn’t want to pay for Project Zomboid, I decided to give C:DDA a try. Found out it had support for tiles, fell in love with RetroDays, never stopped playing.  
The wiki, although a bit… unupdated? was a big help.

Or so I guess it happened. It’s been less than a year since I’ve started, but it is pretty much all I play nowadays. The complexity of the systems in it never ceases to amaze me.

Last significant games I’ve played alongside C:DDA were Isaac Rebirth and Dungeon of the Endless. Before that, FTL and DCSS.

I have kind of a Roguelike addiction, haha; one of the first true games I’ve played in a computer was a demo of Castle of the Winds.

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**Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 1:08am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-did-you-get-introduced-to-cataclysm/8896/31 "2015-02-12T01:08:46Z")

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[quote=“jinzaditen, post:30, topic:8896”]Played a lot of DCSS; got bored with it; poked around Roguebasin, found C:DDA. I had tried it before, for something like 5min, but had no patience to learn the systems, and found the ASCII graphics a bit difficult to understand - since it wasn’t just a bunch of interconnected rooms in the shape of a dungeon, haha. I also found it too hard. Since I didn’t like Rogue Apocalypse and didn’t want to pay for Project Zomboid, I decided to give C:DDA a try. Found out it had support for tiles, fell in love with RetroDays, never stopped playing.  
The wiki, although a bit… unupdated? was a big help.

Or so I guess it happened. It’s been less than a year since I’ve started, but it is pretty much all I play nowadays. The complexity of the systems in it never ceases to amaze me.

Last significant games I’ve played alongside C:DDA were Isaac Rebirth and Dungeon of the Endless. Before that, FTL and DCSS.

I have kind of a Roguelike addiction, haha; one of the first true games I’ve played in a computer was a demo of Castle of the Winds.[/quote]  
I have castle of the winds on my phone, is it any good? I haven’t played much.

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**Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 1:31am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-did-you-get-introduced-to-cataclysm/8896/32 "2015-02-12T01:31:58Z")

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I found out about it via Aavak’s more recent LP, with Isdar - I wasn’t around when he was playing it the first time. It managed to ping my old UMoria/Angband fondness and my incurable love of zombie apocalypses simultaneously, and I think I was heading off to the website before the third episode aired.

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**Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 2:24pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-did-you-get-introduced-to-cataclysm/8896/33 "2015-02-12T14:24:53Z")

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Perigrin:  
It’s a bit short - there are two dungeons with… about 20~or so floors?; apart from that, it’s pretty much the standard roguelike fare - kill monsters, gain levels, hoard gold, burn goblins to a crisp with fireballs… played it a lot as a kid, never went back to it.  
Fun, but a bit too simple, if I recall correcly! Maybe good to play in public transportation or something like that.

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**Post date:** [February 12, 2015, 5:38pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-did-you-get-introduced-to-cataclysm/8896/34 "2015-02-12T17:38:28Z")

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> [@Packbat](#):
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> I found out about it via Aavak’s more recent LP, with Isdar - I wasn’t around when he was playing it the first time. It managed to ping my old UMoria/Angband fondness and my incurable love of zombie apocalypses simultaneously, and I think I was heading off to the website before the third episode aired.

I just love, LOVE Aavak’s content. His tastes in games quite mirror my own. I’m also really enjoying his current LP of C:DDA, w/Isdar. Also bonus points for mentioning Angband. Haven’t played that game in years, it’s still in my Games Folder, it’s been there since the early 1990’s, through multiple generations of my PC. I’m pretty sure it was the first Roguelike game I’ve ever played. It’s still a great game.

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Messing around on Roguebasin, I’d seen Cataclysm on it many times before, but finally got around to looking into it.

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I can’t remember it’s been so long, It was either when i was asking random forums about

“Any zombie survival games out there?”

or

“Any good roguelikes?”

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honestly i’m not big on roguelikes. Didn’t even try DF, nor any other top roguelikes, not even the easier cheesy ones do not attract me. Have Binding of Isaac, tried it a bit, gave up . Played FTL for a bit, gave up on that too. But CDDA has that something besides unfair RNG, and yeah, Jeff and his old LP pointed me here. Almost 2 years ago. And still playing.  
Guess CDDA is more of a survival sandbox than a straight rougelike, and i’m a sucker for anything anything survival / postapocaliptic.

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Played traditional rougelikes like nethack and variants and angband variants, angband was a little bit easy but too monotonous so I left it. I played nethack first, thought it was cool but too hard, couldn’t get below level 15 at my best character, I still play it and the other variants (UnNethack is good, slash’em is outdated a bit). Was surfing on the rougebasin for steps to creating a rougelike, but there was no tutorial or any pointers for Java (Java and py were the only langs I knew by that time), said it had no text based support, tried a project on sourceforge, had to abandon it as it proved too hard and I didn’t have the time. I got back on the rougebasin to try new rougelikes, there was this Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead game featured on the rougebasin, tried it, It was too hard, read the wiki, played a lot, got killed a lot, after I got the hang of it I joined the forums and the rest is history.

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> [@hexman](#):
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> Played traditional rougelikes like nethack and variants and angband variants, angband was a little bit easy but too monotonous so I left it. I played nethack first, thought it was cool but too hard, couldn’t get below level 15 at my best character, I still play it and the other variants (UnNethack is good, slash’em is outdated a bit). Was surfing on the rougebasin for steps to creating a rougelike, but there was no tutorial or any pointers for Java (Java and py were the only langs I knew by that time), said it had no text based support, tried a project on sourceforge, had to abandon it as it proved too hard and I didn’t have the time. I got back on the rougebasin to try new rougelikes, there was this Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead game featured on the rougebasin, tried it, It was too hard, read the wiki, played a lot, got killed a lot, after I got the hang of it I joined the forums and the rest is history.

Hahaha, yeah, a Java tutorial would have been much better IMO than the one that it’s there. I tried it and it was pretty fun though! I got the character to move around. With a whole day of work. It just made me appreciate the work in this game a lot more.

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Well, I sorta just watched Jefmajor and Zemalf a lot. They did Cata around similar times, and this was actually the first Roguelike I downloaded and played. DF was the first one I saw, but I didn’t get into that until later.

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