People who have worked on MAngband

Currently Active Project Members

  • Graham King (aka Jug) is the new Project Team Leader, and was the co-creator (along with Warrior) of Ironman MAngband.
  • Bill Seymour (aka Billsey) is part of the MAngband Project Team and has been around for a very long time, both as a developer and as a player.
  • Warrior is part of the Project Team and has been an active member of the community for many years. He wrote the original MAngband FAQ (soon to be updated).
  • Fink is part of the Project Team and has been around for many years and is a driving force in the MAngband forums.
  • Flambard is part of the Project Team!

Retired Long Term Maintainers

  • Keldon Jones is the original MAngband author (January 1997 - October 1998) and was the guy who actually turned 'Angband' into 'MAngband'. We owe it all to him.
  • Alex Dingle (aka Turtle) was our second maintainer (October 1998 - September 2002) and did significant and long term work adding features and removing bugs.
  • Robert L. Seifer (aka Crimson) was our third maintainer (September 2002 - December 2007) providing a reliable game server and website as well as adding features and fixing bugs.

Historical Acknowledgements

There are many many people in the forums and on the old mailing list who have contributed ideas, bug reports, and support. Thanks, to everybody.

  • Hao Chen (aka Hao) wrote the original metaserver, and for many years hosted the MAngband metaserver, anonymous ftp archive, and game server on his computer. He also knows where to find good Chinese food. Thanks, Hao!
  • Dan Liberatore (aka Berendol) graciously maintained the the mangband forums up until 2007, as well as significant cleanup and bug patching work.
  • Chris Atenasio kept the now defunct automated archive of the mailing list. He has also added a few extra features such as dungeon master vault generation.
  • Andreas Karlsson did the original port of the Windows server.
  • Garrett Pease did the original port of the Windows client.
  • Marco G. Salvagno has written a port of the client to OS/2.
  • Timo Hirvi has done some beta testing and has put up with lots of server crashes, etc. He also made the original web interface to the original metaserver.
  • Donald Sharp has written a patch to allow the server to log its output to a file. He's also sent a patch for multiple configuration blocks in the .mangrc file.
  • Dave Thaler has sent in a lot of patches fixing various network problems.
  • Adam Olsen created the original website.

Many thanks also to Ben Harrison for making this project possible by cleaning up the Angband source code and doing many other nice things.