04/07/2013 Dev Log: Dwarf Fortress and Tarn/Zach Adams profile by the Kitsap Sun

In the localest DF news to date, today's Kitsap Sun (the county paper) will feature a Dwarf Fortress article by Tad Sooter. It's also available online. Amy Phan produced a video online there as well, on the left of the article (or here).

I highly suggest checking the article out. It's surprisingly well written and respectful to both the game and to the Tarn brothers - something which is all too often lacking.

We move back to the kitchen counter and Ringland breaks out a tray of cookies while Tarn and Zach arrange their pencils and crayons. They have about 20 drawings to make for contributors on this night. As usual, the fan requests are specific and obscure. One fan wants a picture of a metallic god he encountered in his game, another insists on the marvelous penguins. 

The brothers have fielded much stranger requests in the past. A fan once asked the Adamses to draw his boss as an ogre whipping him with chains. He planned to hang it in his office

“That was a great picture,” Ringland recalls with a smile

Dark Diamond interview with Toady

Though this happened last week, it's still good to advertise such an interview for the masses looking to glean ANY info about Toady and DF. The interview is set up in a podcast.

Unfortunately this one suffers from some pretty crippling problems - namely, the audio for Toady cuts out frequently and during the most important parts. Conspiracy, perhaps? Hmm. What an ingenious way to conceal new info! Say you revealed all this new information but claim you had technical difficulties and thus no one could hear it! Perfect!

Anyways, you can find the actual interview here. You can also find even MORE interview footage here, though this is more of a "banter" back and forth between Toady and the interviewer rather than any actual interview.. Finally, certain DF forumgoers were kind enough to write up a transcript of the entire thing. You can find said transcript here, and you can thank Turgid Bolk for the majority of it!