How many angbanders are out there?

[Malak Darkhunter]

I go way back to 1988 with moria, then found angband again. In my opinion this is the greatest game ever made. So I'm kinda curious how many players are out there in the world?

[takkaria]

I go way back to 1988 with moria, then found angband again. In my opinion this is the greatest game ever made. So I'm kinda curious how many players are out there in the world?

At least a thousand, I would guess. This forum has 500 members, though some of those are likely to be spammers. The Angband comic gets 200-300 readers. I'm pretty sure there's a significant silent population of players, so extrapolating wildly and making things up, 1000 seems like it might not be an unreasonable figure.

[Bandobras]

I suspect there numerous categories and subcategories of silent players, e.g. not even at the very bottom are players that are silent because they don't understand English a bit. Yet another category is people without any Internet access. Then players on multi-user systems, e.g. on academic networks, that didn't even ever install Angband and may think this is just a standard quirky part of the quirky operating system. Then there are avid players that currently happen to have a 15 years break, soon to end.

What about download counts? E.g. Un alone has around 1000 downloads from the primary site alone on some versions. I don't know how to count the downloads from various sites that host binaries e.g. to display advertisements.

[Garrie]

At least a thousand, I would guess. This forum has 500 members, though some of those are likely to be spammers.

Not only does it have 500 members, just look how many visit today: for 24 April it's more than a screen and a half... a lot of forum have heaps of members who post once and you never hear from them again...

http://angband.oook.cz/forum/memberlist.php?do=getall&pp=30&order=desc&sort=lastvisit

[smithfield]

There are 12 of us.

7 are known.

4 have just been revealed.

And 1 is working on the next update.

[Remuz]

Currently Active Users: 36 (3 members and 33 guests)

I am always impressed by these numbers. Ok, Angband is the best game ever (I am counting variants, here). Ok, it is then totally normal that many people lurk on this forum.

But still.

[Big Al]

You know that most of those lurkers are just search engine spiders, and not actual people... see http://angband.oook.cz/forum/online.php.

[Remuz]

*cries*

[Bandobras]

Who says spiders can't play Angband?

[Atarlost]

Yes, we must incorporate web search functionality into the Borg!

Or not.

[will_asher]

What is a search engine spider? Does it just find sites for the search engine so that other people can use the search engine to find them?

[takkaria]

What is a search engine spider? Does it just find sites for the search engine so that other people can use the search engine to find them?

Yup, you got it.

[David Dark]

hiho,

count me in just started my adventures in Angband

[Jude]

Best game ever made huh? I dunno if I'd go that far, but there's no question it's in my top 5 (the fifth of which is left undecided because I can't really choose...the others are Master of Orion, Morrowind and Rollercoaster Tycoon.)

And in terms of cumulative hours spent, it's got to be my most played game by a long shot.

[Garrie]

And in terms of cumulative hours spent, it's got to be my most played game by a long shot.

Gotta say that any *Band sucks up way more time than civ, or any other world sim, can get away with. Unless you're into flight sims I guess.