magerette
Hedgewitch
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While not an RPG, the free, text-based, independently developed game by Bay 12 known as Dwarf Fortress has some players on this site, and PC Cohort does an interview with Tarn Adams, who along with his brother is the title's creator. The interview deals mainly with Adams' background and approach to his work, along with some general observations:
And on the concept of anything coming along to change the game's current status:6. Have any thoughts on the gaming industry as a whole?
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It’s very big now and the overall selection is quite diverse to the point that there’s something for almost everybody, and virtually everybody growing up plays games. I think that’s all very cool. I have microscopic niches I’m into myself, so I guess it’s disappointing personally that some of the interesting ideas from my favorite games weren’t picked up and developed to the level they could be at while other things have received a lot more attention, but I’m writing the kind of games I’m most interested in, so it’s not so bad.
More information.7. Any industry folks come snooping around and offer a briefcase of money yet?
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Ha ha, yeah, a couple of times, though it has all been in good faith so I wouldn’t put too sharp a point on it. It’s mostly concerned either using DF’s name as part of a name for some other project or using the DF setting for some other project without DF’s name, but nothing has come of it. Nobody has asked to buy the name and for me to stop writing and distributing my game, and nobody has asked to put DF in a box and distribute it...
As long as we can keep creating and handing out our own free unaltered DF to the fans for the longest possible time, we are happy. So far the donation model has made the most sense for that, and I don’t see that changing...
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