what made you want to start a dwarf game, why do all game developpers do this? Why not try elves or anything else? I just don't get it at all is it ease, the thought that dwarves are the most popular because their fans are loud? Because the tropes tell you that you cannot use anything other than a dwarf for a building/mining game?
And no I hate dwarf fortress more so because it's one of the reasons the game industry is full of dwarven games