I can _not_ believe someone (2 of them) have written this game.
I have /never/ been so entranced. They have achieved Suspension of Disbelief with this product. Complete suspension of disbelief. I am on the verge of an unhealthy all night session but that irritating thing called work is getting in the way.
Guys, if any game magazine editor ever gets wind of this program you will be quite pleased. It's only a matter of time before EA or some other big publisher notices your work and promptly dumps cash into your lap along with a producer to polish this off and put it on shelves. This game could easily be as big as Sim City in terms of sales.
Why, oh why don't I have lottery winnings to buy artists, coders, and marketing ppl to help you two get this concept onto store shelves.
This is an extremely commercially viable product. I can't believe it hasn't been scooped up by a game publisher.
Have you two been approched by publishers yet?
I'm blatantly ignoring the flame war that happened earlier this ... week.
Yeah, it is rather amazing that one person is doing the programming, it seems more like he's found his love interest (or has been possessed by the aspect of one Fey) and is pouring his soul into it. And as for ThreeToe, I doubt that Toady One could make such a convincing story telling device if it weren't for his brother. In fact, if you haven't read some of
ThreeToe's stories you're missing something amazing.
I don't know about the suspension of disbelief, that's probably personal to each one of us. But I know that I have been on the all-nighter train before, usually while trying to do something that would be incredibly awesome.
As for the magazine's Toady One HAS been interviewed quite a few times, and Dwarf Fortress itself has been featured or mentioned on several different websites and magazines. (links to which can be found on
http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/links.html under "Media/Awards Stuff")
Uhm, what else.. Well I would doubt Toady would sell or even pitch it to any developer or publisher, as to whether Toady's been approached by either, I don't actually know if he's mentioned it.