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[Scarpa]

I'm not sure I believe that Toady actually codes on this game every day. Not having a schedule or anyone to answer to tends to breed that sort of thing. I'm not saying I blame him or I'd do anything different, I just don't really think he spends as much time coding as he claims in the dev log. Then again, the NY Times guy was with him for 5 days, so .....perhaps he does.

Nah, I think you're greatly underestimating the mental focus needed to program a game like this (well to program anything complex, really). My bet is Toady works in 4-6hour bursts of pure focus, he referenced this recently when talking about 'mind-bending' bugs in either a devlog or interview. You just can't produce something like this while only working a couple hours a day.

[Dae]

Footkerchief, that was in March 2010. Your memory is inhuman...

Look at this avatar. He never said he was human.

[Greiger]

You forget Foot's origin story.  He is the search engine turned sentient.  The pure awesome from DF itself merged with the awesome of the stories on the forum within the virtual womb of the forum's search system.

The resulting being is referred to as Footkerchief, and is worshiped in a somewhat similar fashion as the Pope within the church of the One Toad.

[DG]

I'm not sure I believe that Toady actually codes on this game every day. Not having a schedule or anyone to answer to tends to breed that sort of thing. I'm not saying I blame him or I'd do anything different, I just don't really think he spends as much time coding as he claims in the dev log. Then again, the NY Times guy was with him for 5 days, so .....perhaps he does.

I'd like to redirect you to the last time you started this discussion.

Interesting...I wonder what LotL is trying to achieve.

[Endiqua]

The resulting being is referred to as Footkerchief, and is worshiped in a somewhat similar fashion as the Pope within the church of the One Toad.

Does this mean we can look forward to toilet paper in the colors of his avatar?

Seriously:  Vatican Toilet Paper

[tolkafox]

Dwarf Fortress, which never unfolds the same way twice.

I think this describes DF perfectly. Last week's fortress had a cavern where the bedrooms were supposed to be. It messed up my whole layout, forcing me to build the bedrooms entrance stairwell 21 tiles to the left of the dining room.