did anyone find out what that game, or tech was called? 1:01:13

Well presented; Great enthusiasm

yes introspection yes algortihms

who added the soundtrack at 1:09:00 and was it diegetic to the room

Man what a shame. It is an incredibly interesting topic but I can only hear 30% of what is being said. Was there no one monitoring the audio?

26:05 34:18

"There's absolutely no reason to make a large world." Tarn said 3 years ago. Actually I'd been making large worlds with max history length for 5 years prior, and my reasons for doing so then are unchanged. It produces richer world histories with more active personalities that you can interact with, that you can influence, but will ever be out of your control. These are fundamental building blocks for stories you could not have anticipated, no matter what you're able to do to change the world.

An adventurer isn't exactly ground up in gears, because in Adventurer Mode the player has more agency than other units around them. Non-player units may be capable of the same behaviors as the player, yet they won't actually engage in them. NPC's who agree to join the player lose more agency because there are more behaviors they won't engage in, and more behaviors they're compelled to. Certainly a lot of narrative emerges from a party composition, but it's still constricted more than necessary for gameplay.

I think Janet was missing the point. She thinks procedural rhetoric should always look for a particular feature in a system (in the same way Marxist criticism always looks for economic inequality). Procedural rhetoric is about the process, not about the outcome. It's a method for analyzing video games, but what we end up finding in our analyses is up to us.

Envy these students getting to learn from one of the true legends of game development.

01:19:00 ⚠️ Headphone warning. ⚠️

A small bias of probabilities of rare events happening more often to entities in the game that the user pays attention to would go a long way towards sparking a player's inner storyteller. Dwarf Fortress does this by presenting the player with so many unique permutations of ordinary entities that each unique configuration feels rare and special; statistically, DF sessions are not surprising if you hold all the game mechanics in mind. However, most players aren't interested in memorizing the wiki, so they're in a state of constant surprise. As long as the surprises don't sour into frustration (e.g. 2022-12 Steam version doesn't let me build up/down stair constructs to extend a downstairs upward, wth), then the tongue-in-cheek "!FUN!" make for good stories. Stories are born when plans go awry; frustration is born when the story is unlikely to entertain people you love.

It’s on Steam now!

1:10:25 when the strange mood hit

Tarn is the king of geeks and the underworld :D

27:00

only 800 views? This guy is a rock star!

I love herring his thought presses it shows how he makes the game so complex

great talk. its a shame many of these developer conventions have audio issues.

Why the dislikes it's weird? This was amazing!

“Almost like the application of the argument to the design process itself.” I guess he’s saying it is recursive logic?

Great quality. I've been reading Persuasive Games for my thesis and it's been a treasure.

I have mad respect for Tarn, but he really needs to reel in his 'uh's and 'ums' because it's in the dozens per minute my golly - though the one just after 4:03 was pretty funny

If you wanna do something fun: Download Lazy Newb Pack Turn on this lecture Generate a DF world while listening to the lecture. Export legends and check out your developed world.

14:50 avoid unnecessary detail

33:48 And that, right there, is why I hate STEAM. It's also to be released on itch.io (DRM-free), and yet, likely due to the same terms that prevent devs from posting links to STEAM _and_ GOG on their official websites, Mr. Adams here only ever calls it the "STEAM release".

In 50 years DF will be taught in schools. We are watching history in the making folks!

His slides look like he made them in MS Paint, and I love it

fucking cats clean themselves in this game, and get their paws dirty? Eye lids are actually used for cleaning eyes???

Tarn and Zach are just amazing. Thank you

This reminds me of Keith Burgun's 'Clockwork Game Design'.

2:03 “In 138, the Torments of Equality accept an offer of peace from the Pregnancy of Rawness” lmaoooo I love this game

This stuff is just so interesting. The cool thing is a lot of the concepts he discusses are so simple and obvious at their core that it's not as hard as you'd think to follow along.

Tarn Adams is awesome

I love this guy 🥺

words from a genius of game design ; a living legend

59:06

He's an amazing speaker

Thank you for the talk and for giving Tarn a platform! This game and it's creators sure deserve as many attention and praise as possible.

Brilliant dude but his mind is all over the place. I can't follow his talks at all.

why would you disable the like/dislike bar? Nobody can hate Tarn Adams

I just made a Demigod in adventure mode, covered him in brown recluse spiders, slapped a mason and demanded his pouch, and named it the bad bad balls before smashing a bird to death with it.

Introduction starts @ 10:38 Presentation starts @ 11:25 You're welcome.

Interesting dutch angle lol

Listening for Toady for hours....relaxing

It's really sad that the end debate was cut, because I think she was coming from an interesting place (badly, but still) asking what can we do with those theoretical tools. And there are many, many answers but she did not seem open to recieving them :x

I know nothing about game design yet I can listen to this guy talk all day.

This guy is a genius, or an artist, or both..

He's the Donald Knuth of video games. DF is still easier than writing a tex macro though.

I had no idea this talk was happening... If I known I definitely would've gone. Dwarf Fortress is such a fascinating game