Until this moment, I felt kind of badass about the fact that Dwarf Fortress is the game I play. Then I read this interview and realized that writing Dwarf Fortress is the game that Tarn Adams is playing.
“Yeah, we had a list, it started almost a decade ago (laughs), it was of 100 things that would make version one of the game. We count up one centi-version number for each one that we finish and we’ll get to 1.00 and that’ll be it.
That lasted for a while… (laughs) we got maybe to 31 that way.. then it changed a bit. Some really cost more than others.
So we broke it up into a system now, I think it’s got about 2700 points and I’ve just got this giant file. Every couple of years I write a new program, or have a new giant piece of paper on a desk, or a flashcard system; partly just to keep it fresh, I guess. We check things off, that reports some points back and increases the version number – it’s all systematised – and there’s not a lot of wiggle room left in that system but we’re pretty satisfied with what’s there. The main thing is to say what’s in and what’s out and how far something needs to go before it’s considered version one-ish.”
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Yeah I just read this interview today and had a similar thought.
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