15 Facts About Tarn Adams

Tarn Adams was born on April 17,1978 and is an American computer game programmer, best known for his work on Dwarf Fortress.

Tarn Adams has been working on the game since 2002 together with his older brother Zach.

Tarn Adams learned programming in his childhood, and took up designing computer games as a hobby.

Tarn Adams taught his sons the rudiments of coding at an early age and this shared interest allowed the brothers Tarn and Zach to remain close to each other despite their family's constant shifting due to their father's work.

In fifth grade, Tarn Adams wrote his first animation game with Zach.

Tarn Adams announced in 2004 on his forums that he was going to shift his main project from Armok to a side project called Dwarf Fortress.

Tarn Adams earned a degree in mathematics at the University of Washington.

Tarn Adams began his doctoral studies at Stanford University, completing them in 2005 with a dissertation titled "Flat Chains in Banach Spaces", which was published in The Journal of Geometric Analysis.

Tarn Adams cited a dilemma he was facing between studying mathematics and developing video games.

The Tarn Adams brothers started a company called Bay 12 Games, where they developed and released freeware games, attracting a small following.

Tarn Adams put up a PayPal button after a request from a fan; similarly, a subscriber system was added later.

Tarn Adams decided to leave during the first year due to increasing stress and is said to have broken down in the department head's office.

Tarn Adams realized the need to be able to manage many miners and not only have a high score list, but store more minute details, which was the beginning of the project.

Tarn Adams has cited books, movies, pen and paper role-playing games and other computer games, experienced during his childhood, as an inspiration for the various games he developed.

Tarn Adams has expressed his dislike for massively multiplayer online games and said that popular games are addictive because they make use of the player's compulsive hoarding trait.