Bold and Bizarre Tales from Dwarf Fortress 13

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Dwarf Fortress in one sentence.

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A friend of mine works on the Space Station 13 project, and continues to see some of the most entertaining tickets and cases:

If you mix 3u of ants with 10u of sugar it makes 10u of ants

So you could just keep making ants

It’s not even a bug

I contemplated making ant pills or ant patches, but

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At this year’s GDC, the Dwarf Fortress maker came out swinging against a brutal climate of layoffs, cancellations, and general downsizing across the games industry, declaring that the executives responsible can “all eat shit.”

“Three to four years from now, what are [Dwarf Fortress] sales looking like?” pondered Adams in a chat with PCG, “What kind of decisions do we have to make [with] burn rates and all that stuff?” Considering the possibility of making those hard decisions some day down the line, Tarn wondered if the experience would give him "more empathy for the people that lay people off.

“No, I don’t fing think so," he concluded. "They can all eat s, I think they’re horrible, and I think they’re bad people.”

Which is a pretty definitive statement all by itself, but Adams continued: "These decisions, they don’t sound practical. They sound like they’re driven by greedy, greedy people trying to make some kind of venture capital thing work out.

“There is this stench of rot at the top of things where the reasons people get laid off is because of funding structures and bad incentives and stupidity,” said Adams, damning execs for firing people “that they shouldn’t fire because their company will fall apart, but I guess maybe that helps someone’s bottom line somewhere or gets the right air inside the right golden parachute.”

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My buddy Ziiro, who contributes to the SS13 project, posted this today

(reposted with permission)

Looks like SS14 is a project developed independent of the SS13 group, which has a pretty loose coalition of contributors.

Like tg is CC-BY-SA

Goon is CC-BY-NC-SA, which is slightly different

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SS14 trailer!

https://www.reddit.com/r/SS13/comments/1dc4f2h/ss14_trailer_on_pc_gamer_now_with_sound/

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