ErAEkIVWXjQ/0.jpg' alt='Existence - Sim' title='Existence - Sim' />Dwarf Fortress creator on how hes 4. A Dwarf Fortress, via Jeremy Nissen. On the first day of GDC 2. Dwarf Fortress stood at the front of a packed audience and explained how to procedurally generate the beginning of the world. And not just the land and trees and rivers and mountains of the world, which Dwarf Fortress has randomly generated for many years. The mythology of the world the creation myth told in whispers and rhymes over the centuries, which determines the form of civilizations, the land and the magic in the world. The work in progress creation generator is just another step towards version 1. Dwarf Fortress for Tarn Adams, who has been designing and programming the game since 2. The most recent release,. I found out when I spoke to Adams for an hour a few days after his talk. The version number represents 4. As he chips away at those tasks, Adams brings Dwarf Fortress ever closer to, essentially, simulating existence. Or, as Adams told me in our interview, the narratively interesting parts of existence. Adams is fascinating to talk to because hes still so in love with Dwarf Fortress after working on it for a decade. Its just what he does. This was his first time at GDC, talking to other developers and seeing the games industry from the inside. Over the course of an hour, we spoke in depth about how he makes Dwarf Fortress, how he earns a living wage thanks to Patreon, the upcoming creation myth generator, and why cats can get drunk in your fortress. PC Gamer We can start with just some more about GDC. Im curious what its been like for you as your first event, coming here. 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A Fandoms worst nightmare A creator dies before completing their work, leaving it orphaned. Tarn Adams Yeah, it was interesting because we have our talk on Monday afternoon, and I usually dont look like my picturelike my Wikipedia picture has this giant beard, right So, yeah, I shouldnt have shaved my dwarf beard, so no one recognized me, kinda, during the first half of the day, and then after I gave my talk the room was packed, and now its like every 2. I have a nice conversation with someone. Its cool. Do you get to have John Carmack moments where a bunch of people flock to you and say, Share your wisdom with meNo, its not quite like that, but if someone notices that were sitting and talking for 1. Have you been picking up anything that youve found interesting or informative for your own games, or has it been more sharing your knowledgeIts been a lot of that, but I listen to people talk about their games, because thats part of the thing when you inspire people, is that doesnt mean that theyre necessarily just gonna talk about your game. That it inspired them means that theyre doing something that they really want to talk about, and so most of the time Ill just listen, and theres a lot of cool games coming, right We talked to the guys at Somasim making Project Highrise, which is, like, this skyscraper thing. Its kind of like Sim. Tower but with all the zoning laws and stuff. It sounds really cool, right They brought architects in. Take the joy of building something and then just pile logistics shit on top of it. Yeah. So its just, you know, talking about people that really want to do detailed simulations, but they have this completely different interest from me, but we speak the same language, more or less, so we can help each other out. And then its just interesting hearing their, like, business experiences or whatever, because I dont have any experience with that. Its funny to listen to all those strange stories about how mobile development works and AAA development because Id never met AAA developers before. Theyre all over the place, right, and theyre like, This is how you manage a 1. I understand AAA a little better and how things go the way they go, and how everyones working hard and it still sometimes doesnt work. Its really interesting. Tarn Adams, right, speaking with Kitfox Games developer Tanya Short at GDC 2. What has it felt like being at this event for the first time Youve been making games for a long time, but this is your first time here on the business side. Yeah, or at all, rightI hardly have ever been to events at all. I just went to a PAX a couple years ago. That was the first event Id ever been to. And Ive been doing my website publicly for 1. Thats what I just thought it was about, that kind of networking. I usually, or at least I was a long time ago, was bringing a kind of cynical perspective to it looking at the industry and viewing myself as sort of outside of it or something like that. But its a much more continuous and smeared out and interesting thing than that, rightDo you think the change from being very much by yourself, insular for a long time is more the industry has changed from what you reacted to negatively 1. Well, since I didnt see with my own two eyes what it was like four or five years ago I cant really speak to that, but certainly it seems like theres a lot going on. The independent games have been booming for a while but its ongoing, rightIts continuing to grow. I mean, theyre growing so much everyones worried about how theyre gonna make it, right I was looking at the industry and viewing myself as sort of outside of it. Theres too many now. Yeah. I mean, you cant say theres, like, an apocalypse of independent games or whatever when the problem is there are too many. Ernie Ball How To Play Guitar Pdf. Its like that saying about the restaurant being full and thats why no one goes there, rightTheres just a lot of interesting things going on. I dont know if weve really become more tangled with it or anything. I mean, were just hanging out here and were not making any deals or anything or actually networking in any kind of way, but its not bad to just kind of be a part of it even if its just sort of, like, flush against it without actually becoming enmeshed. So Dwarf Fortress isnt becoming a Play. Station 4 exclusive in the next year Youre not gonna be programming on a yacht a year from now. Yeah, no no no laughs. So how has the Patreon stuff gone Has it been less than a year I know before the way you survived was people would donate for the game. Just about a year now. In April, at the end of April, itll be a year. Its basically the same thing. Now theres kind of this service that has grown up around giving people that kind of model. Has that increased awareness for the gameOh, its increased our income by two times, so its great. I mean, its amazing when you actually have professional people design a front end for you. As everyone knows, then suddenly people will click the big orange button, right, and we used to have a drop down menu where you had to pick your currency and stuff, because we were just like, Well, they need to get us this information somehow, and that was all we cared about, right, because we didnt think about anything. And yeah, its just a little more difficult, and just even a few steps is enough to drive everyone away. One step is enough to drive people away. Yeah. So the big orange button approach changed everything about how we operate now. We still have Pay. Pal, so its actually whatever number you see on the Patreon you can add 5. Maybe it took ten years but, you know, its good to be there now. I mean, its not necessarily a 1. I like it. Its working well.