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Bay 12 Games
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Bay 12 Games is a game company owned by Tarn Adams and his brother Zach Adams. It currently develops and publishes Dwarf Fortress, and has also created several ASCII games.
Its motto is "Beyond Quality."
Kitfox Games is responsible for contracting the new additions to the team for art, audio, and programming since the Premium update. (Summer 2024 FAQ) They are listed, among others, in /data/credits.txt.
Team Members[edit]
Creators[edit]
- Tarn Adams, programmer and designer
- Zach Adams, designer
Artwork[edit]
- Jacob Bowman
- Also known as Laughing Llama, creator of the Ironhand graphics set. Did the wagon graphic.
- Pixel artist for games and mods, notable for the main creature portraits. Also did the leaves.
- Michal Madej
- Creator of the Mayday graphics set. Did the dwarf sprites
- Guido "Neorice" Bos
- Hobbyist pixel artist, responsible for various sprites such as animal person portraits.
- Patrick Schroeder
- Also known as Meph, author of Masterwork and an eponymous graphics set.
- Left the team before the release of the Premium version over concerns over copyright. [1]
Audio[edit]
- Omar "Dabu" Dabbous, audio director and musician
- "Composer for games like Winding Worlds, Goodbye Volcano High, and Gnog, as well as audio designer for Boyfriend Dungeon." [2]
- Simon Swerwer, musician
- "Community favorite Dwarf Fortress composer specializing in dwarven lyrics & vocals." [3]
- Has previously composed for Utility:SoundSense.
- rcab, musician
- Guest artist for "Into the Pits".
- Agueda Macias, musician
- "Expert player of the viola de gamba, mixing Baroque and Bazilian genres." [4]
- Evan Gipson, lead audio programmer
- Parker Bert, lead sound designer
Programming[edit]
- Ana "Putnam"
- "Selected based on extensive pre-existing understanding of the codebase and a relationship with Tarn." [5]
Additional Credits[edit]
- Pat Vance, IT help
- Kornel Kisielewicz, IT help
- Martin Packman, IT help
- Alan Ames, intial playtester
- "Helped out with a lot of our early unreleased projects, and one project released on AOL in 1996." ([6]).
- Camilla Adams
- "Linguistic color" ([7]) for Slaves to Armok: God of Blood
Games[edit]
| Title | Year | Platform | Genre(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dwarf Fortress | 2006 | Windows, Mac OS X, Linux | Construction and management simulation, roguelike |
| Kobold Quest | 2006 | Windows, Mac OS X | |
| Squiggles | 2005 | ||
| WWI Medic | 2004 | Windows | |
| Liberal Crime Squad | 2002 | Windows, Linux | Roguelike political satire |
| Slaves to Armok: God of Blood | 2000 | Windows | Single-player fantasy RPG |
