Tarn Adams

Tarn Adams
Adams at PAX 2013
Born (1978-04-17) April 17, 1978 (age 46)
Alma materUniversity of Washington (BSc)
Stanford University (PhD)
OccupationComputer game programmer
Years active1996–present

Tarn Adams (born April 17, 1978) is an American computer game programmer, best known for his work on Dwarf Fortress. He has been working on the game since 2002 together with his older brother Zach. He learned programming in his childhood, and took up designing computer games as a hobby. In 2006, he quit during his first year of a mathematics post doctorate at Texas A&M University to focus on game development.