
The History of Dwarf Fortress with Zach and Tarn Adams - Part 2
The AIAS Game Maker's Notebook
How to Make an ASCII Art Reward
We were giving out like crayon drawings for the longest time. Crayon drawings of half an eight. People darken out workers. If anybody, and there's no amount associated to it because we didn't want to deal with sales tax stuff or anything. So anybody, they could even ask for them. I mean, that rarely happened, but you could get exactly 1,500 of these maybe. And then we formalized that very quickly into a thing called an ASCII art reward, which was, and then we eventually called them story rewards as well. Zach made more than 3000 of those, I think. They're surprisingly, it's kind of hard to find them anymore.
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