“It’s funny how we have an aesthetic even though we’re a text game,” says Tarn, who says the team’s artists took their time finding an art style that was more readable than stark ASCII characters but still left “room for interpretation”. Zach’s wife, whose previous game-playing experience begins and ends at The Sims, served as the primary tester. Other than better visuals and a new soundtrack, the commercial release also features mouse controls, a completely redesigned interface and proper in-game tutorials to help you find your way around. The brothers note that the classic version will still be available for free, with updates matched to the paid edition the premium game’s various additions are mostly about making it more approachable, rather than drastically changing the underlying game. So far, they say, things look like they’re going “really well”. The pair decided to team up with a Canadian publisher, Kitfox Games, and announced a “premium” version of the game, hoping to attract more fans and secure more sustainable revenue. That is not cool.”ĭwarf Fortress developers Zach and Tarn Adams You’re not just going to run GoFundMes until you can’t and then die when you’re 50. “It’s just not tenable, especially as you age. “It’s not an ideal setup, right?” says Tarn. But it got them thinking about what could have happened if Tarn, who describes his current health insurance as “crap”, had been diagnosed with something major instead.īetween donations from fans and a small-scale Patreon following, Tarn and Zach were eking out a living from Dwarf Fortress, but both knew the costs of operations and ongoing healthcare in America could easily bankrupt them. The treatment cost him $10,000, which his insurance – obtained through his wife’s company – mostly covered.
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“I had to go to the hospital for skin cancer,” says Zach. But in 2019, a health scare inspired a shift in priorities.
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The brothers, based in the US, have historically released a new version for free whenever they had one ready to go.
Photograph: Kitfox GamesĪll of it, up until quite recently, has been the product of just two people: Tarn and his brother Zach, who have been working on Dwarf Fortress for almost two decades. … and the old text-only version of what the game looked like.
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