How many angbanders are out there?

[Seany C]

Championship Manager (football/"soccer" manager sim)and its offspring took up several years of my life in the first half of this decade. I even stopped 'banding for a couple of years, it was that bad...

(mind you, getting Sheffield Wednesday to the Champions League was worth it)

[Psi]

Championship Manager (football/"soccer" manager sim)and its offspring took up several years of my life in the first half of this decade.

Snap! I even went out for beers with the CM dev team (Sports Interactive) after one of the CM3 releases...

I can actually run CM93/94 on a port of Dosbox on my PDA, though I don't think I've loaded it since I ported FAangband across...

[aeneas]

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.

I think that's a pretty low estimate (as you indicate when you say "at least"). I've run into a fair number of people who have spent enough time playing Angband to have a reasonable idea of how the game works- I don't know how you define Angbander, and how much it matters if they currently play. But I would be surprised if there weren't a lot more than 1000. I travel in some geeky circles, but I would think it surprising if I'd met 1-2% of the Angbanders in the world. Setting the number at 1000, I would have, depending on your definition. I can't say I've ever met anyone as into it as me though.

[Zikke]

There's an Angband comic? O_o

[ekolis]

Yeah, there have actually been several, the most recent being here: http://angband.calamarain.net

[Big Al]

Penance is also very good (though updated very slowly these days).

http://www.penancecomic.com/

[Mars]

'On hold' may be a better way to put it.. it's been three months since the last comic, and the one before that one month earlier.

[starstealer]

I've been playing rogue-like games since I was probably 10 or even younger - not sure exactly. So - I'm probably pushing 20 years of playing.

As for the number of players - I can count about 40 among people whom either introduced me to the game or that I introduced to the game.

[Karzack]

I've been playing rogue-likes for about 10 years. I don't know anyone, around my area (Nebraska), that plays them. This would be in my circle of people that I come in contact with.

I have shown friends and they look at me like I'm crazy for playing games with "those kind of graphics".

I just looked at the last time I logged in. Heh, February 11, 2008. I usually come on here every few days and read some of the latest posts without ever posting myself. I guess I need to quit lurking so much.


While I'm posting...keep up the good work all of you maintainers of the *bands. These are truly some of the best games I have ever played.