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The Minds Behind Dwarf Fortress

Zach and Tarn Adams spent 11 years in obscurity working on one game. Now it's in the MOMA.

May. 8 2013

Posted by: Drew

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Dwarf Fortress

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I wish I could play this game, I tried but the time killed me

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I like this guys so much, while big publishers have been focusing on "cinematic" experiences, they been working on AI, Mechanics, Simulation Routines and what not.. ya know the stuff that should matter to make a GAME.

Check this article: Julian Gollop on "Brute Force" design

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Yay for Dwarf Fortress, also the brothers seem like really nice people.

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What charming guys!

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Oh how I wish I could sit and play DF. I always get bored after a few hours of carving out bedrooms for all these dwarfs. My first fortress I played for many hours until I realized that one stupid dwarf sold our anvil before I took it out of the wagon, and without an anvil you can't make stuff and you can't make another anvil so the fortress was going nowhere.

Too bad this game will never be anywhere near finished.

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hoe about some fuking GRAPHICS

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The game seems pretty cool.

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Great interview, Patrick.

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I hope Dave comes back and continues his feature on Dwarf Fortress. The new RPG mode features sound really cool too.

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Huh. Those guys seem pretty chill. Which one is the programmer?

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These guys seem super cool and nice. Good interview guys

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I love the idea of randomly generating entire worlds and creatures and content like the Dwarf Fortress guys do. Must be the computer scientist/programmer in me.

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I love Dwarf Fortress and in its current (Beta/Alpha) state it is both the best city management game out there AND the best sandbox RPG. Look forward to watching this when I get home.

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Dwarf Fortress content? This makes me a happy man.

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are those hexagons in the back? or just stupid squares.

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@godmil: Cheevos are super time consuming to put up cause whenever the services change something on their site, the scrapers that get the info break on the GB end.

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That game be crazy.

EDIT: sorry, I thought there was still a site achievement for being the first to post.

Though I can't see anything about it now, so I guess all those months of trying to do it was a little bit of a waste :(

EDIT2: Hang on, where did all the Steam/Xbox/PSN achievement stuff go? Did none of that stuff make the move during the site update? :(