The happiest man in gaming hates generative AI

It's impossible to not be swept up in Tarn Adams' enthusiasm. To speak to him is to feel like you're talking to the happiest man in gaming. Along with his brother Zach, he's been working on the wonderfully chaotic procedurally generated world of Dwarf Fortress since 2002, and he is far from tired of it. If anything, he's more enthusiastic than ever. "There's just so many cool things to work on when you're writing a sort of expansive, scope-bloated simulation game," he tells GamesIndustry.biz .