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Game News Dwarf Fortress Interview

Discussion in 'RPG Codex News & Content Comments' started by VentilatorOfDoom, Apr 7, 2010.

  1. VentilatorOfDoom RPG Codex Staff

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    Negative Gamer <a href="http://negativegamer.com/2010/04/06/losing-is-fun-an-interview-with-dwarf-fortress-developer-tarn-adams/">interviews</a> DF creator Tarn Adams.
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    <p style="margin-left:50px;border-style:solid;border-width:1px;border-top-color:#ffffff;padding:5px;border-right-color:#bbbbbb;border-left-color:#ffffff;border-bottom-color:#bbbbbb;">There are a lot of developers out there. Among the major games you see TV commercials for and so on, well, I guess you could say that they are aiming for a large audience by necessity, but even then, I had fun with, say, Red Faction: Guerilla, and I think it had TV commercials. Maybe it was lowest common denominator fun, but I didn’t mind, and they had a better “cave-in” model than DF ever will. At the same time, when it comes to other kinds of details, then, yeah, DF is pretty far out there, and I don’t expect to see a lot of what I’m doing in a large commercial project any time soon, and I think DF fulfills a need for some players that the giant developers aren’t interested in fulfilling. My brother and I continue writing games in part because the games we most want to play aren’t being created by anybody, large or small, so in that way I’d say developers are ignoring quality gameplay, but that’s down to personal taste, he he he. It could be that way for everybody. All of our dream games are slightly different. That’s part of what allows independents to co-exist with the major studios and still survive.
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    Spotted at: <A HREF="http://www.gamebanshee.com/news/97441-slaves-to-armok-ii-dwarf-fortress-interview.html">GB</A>
     
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  2. Derper Prophet

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    FAIL!
     
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  3. Destroid Arcane

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    Hilarious, as if anyone's home computer is unable to run dwarf fortress.
     
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  4. Tycn Savant

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    Seems like he was being ironic.
     
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  5. Micmu Magister

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    Obviously he's joking. :)
    DF is like the most console(r) unfriendly game of all times. It's an exact opposite of console games in nearly every aspect.
    Time to begin building another fortress with new version...
     
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  6. Hory Erudite

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    It would be great at parties!
     
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  7. Norfleet Moderator

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    I'm trying to imagine a consoletard even PLAYING Dwarf Forturess. Fun will undoubtedly ensue.
     
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  8. Clockwork Knight Arcane

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    Doesn't the computer need to be fairly powerful once the world gets complex enough? I read about crashes because of all the details it has to keep track at once.
     
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  9. Konjad High on potatoes Patron

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    Actually I would love NDS version of DF that I can take with me anywhere, even if it was dumbed down.
     
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  10. Krash Prophet

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    The crashes are bug related. You do get quite a slowdown with many dwarves, items and/or layers even on a powerful computer though.
     
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  11. Hoaxmetal Arcane

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    That's right. Performance gets more or less better by every performance update but it still requires good PC on large and populated maps. Don't get fooled by ascii, there are tons of variables processed every second.
     
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