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I seem to recall a profile of the game and it's creators that said it's mostly by choice. Found it: they were offered 300K just to license the name. He has
by ta0o0o0 11y ago
I seem to recall a profile of the game and it's creators that said it's mostly by choice.
Found it: they were offered 300K just to license the name.
He has refused a programming job at a major developer
(he asked that I keep its name off the record) and
turned down a $300,000 offer from another company to
license the Dwarf Fortress name, fearing that the
proposed sum wouldn’t sufficiently offset the long-term
donations drop that would likely result.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-of-dwarf-fortress.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-of...
- lmm 11y agoA one-off 300K isn't a lot for two people to live on if it would cut off their donation stream completely, and if you've been doing this for 10 years it may not be easy to find a job.
- thedavinci2000 11y agoSerious question. Why would it not be easy?
- moron4hire 11y agoThere are still a lot of employers who see time spent on your own venture as a gap in employment history. I mean, I guess it literally is, since you aren't an "employee". But they completely discount any applicable experience during that time.
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- bduerst 11y agoThe founder Tarn Adams has a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Stanford, so I don't think any of his potential employers will mind that he spent his time working on a fantasy economic simulator of this scope.
- flashman 11y agoBecause once an employer sees you're the Dwarf Fortress developer, they'll turn down your application because you have more important things to do.
- ta0o0o0 11y agoI think it's indicative of the value of the property that just the name alone is worth 300K. If they were interested in commercializing the game I suspect they would be able to make a lot more.