And we never really stopped, we were always writing games this whole time. We kind of grew up with the old RPGs and simulations back in the 80s. Making little things move across the screen and so forth. We were also writing BASIC at first at the same time we were learning to read back when we were five or six years old. So we've been playing games as long as we can remember, around the same time we started to read. We're brothers, so these histories are not going to be very different. Tarn: Yeah, so I am Tarn Adams and this is Zach Adams over here.
Q: Let's start with you and your gaming history, can you introduce yourselves, and tells us how you came to be interested in games and game development? RELATED: Minecraft Player Makes Massive Pixel Art Using New Bookshelf Mechanic The interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
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Game Rant spoke to Bay 12 Games developers Tarn and Zach Adams about their upbringing with computers, indie game development over the years, troubles with healthcare forcing them into switching gears, modern simulation games, mod support, post-release plans, and much more. It was a powerful inspiration for Markus "Notch" Persson in creating Minecraft and was arguably an integral part of making the base-building genre as big as it is now. One of the world's most feature-rich base-building simulation games ever conceived is turning a page with pixel graphics.ĭwarf Fortress is an iconic game, a true cult classic among the text-based subgenre, and influential to simulation games in general. Now, the text-based simulation game is taking an important step into a whole new world, as Bay 12 Games is releasing Dwarf Fortress on Steam with the help of publisher Kitfox. Bay 12 Games run by brothers Tarn and Zach Adams have been developing Dwarf Fortress for 20 years, pre-and post-release.
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