MAngband

I'm wondering about where you live, how old you are, and what genre you are... Wanna know who plays it And how long have you been playing it?

... sounds like a #teenchat channel!... hehe

22, Toronto (Canada), and playing sporadically for about a year (though never getting anywhere far).

- arfer

I'm 22 in Georgia, been playing for a few weeks.  I had played on Tomenet back when it was still Pern, but that was like over a year ago.  I still haven't gotten very far either

http://www.teenchat.mangband.org =) Heh, well, I'm 17 (18 in 10 days, YAY!) I played NetHack, rogue, games like that back in the day, but only a couple of months with MAngband =) I think my first char got to lvl 15 or something, when the server got its reset

I'm 28, Male and I live in Eugene, Oregon.  I've been playing Mangband off and on for about 3.5 or 4 years and I've so far won with 2 characters: Domino (Mage) and Angus (Paladin).

I'm 25, from Germany.

Swotl

I'm 18 in Calgary, Canada.

I played Moria when I was younger.  I've played Angband, Zangband, Pernanband, Tome, Nethack, Eyangband, and I've dabbled in a few others.  I have never won (without cheating).

23, M, Australia.
Been playing only for a few weeks.  I've played Zangband, ADOM, Rogue.  The thing i enjoy about Mangband is being able to party with friends and going hunting together.

It's also different becausesave-scumming isn't possible.. i would always use it where it was available because i didn't want to spend time getting back to where i was again.  I guess i played those games to finish them, i play this to have fun with other people.

21, F, Indiana

Just started playing the same time Volrak did. First time I have really played any game of this type. I am still learning a lot  ;)

Been playing for a few months now. I'm further along now than before the reset.
I'm 21, M and live in New Zealand.
Mangband is one of the best games I have ever played and probably the one I have spent the most hours on out of any.

415, of the eighth traditional gender of M'Odah. Just kidding. I'm 19/M, from my home state of MA a few lazy weeks of the year and Rochester, NY (RIT) most of the time for school. I have played it from CT, too. Wow, I'm a geek.

Hmm..experience.. I've played them all. From stuff like Rogue, Larn, Hack, Nethack, Moria, UMoria, Vanilla Angband and about 30 of its variants (my favorite is Tome, and I remember the first version of Pern), ToMENET,  and Mangband. I'm also a somewhat inactive of late participant of the ToME/ToMENET mailing lists. Also I wrote my own utilities to read the Angband data files - the only released one being AMPFI, which is now discontinued in favor of my next project. And I've written a few of my own roguelike games in several languages, none of which ever was completed.

I have one big shortcoming with respect to Angband though. What is going on inside the Angband code??? I just can't follow much of it... possibly due to the apparent lack of structure, or the ever-changing variable naming and referencing scheme. Someone needs to draw a map of that code or rewrite it. I'd volunteer but I don't have that much time when I'm in school.

By the way... does anyone remember Stone Mist?

My younger brother (older of the two, and I have no other siblings) got me into Mangband, after I got him into Moria and spent the next 2 years trying to convince him that Angband was better. You all know him.. maybe he'll identify himself someday. Until he does I will deny our relation Perhaps older players may remember my old characters VilliJiddiIt/WasteOTime also. WasteOTime being a half-troll mage type with abysmal statistics.

I am 21 from CT but go to college at RIT like Berendol and several other mangband players that me and berendol have recruited.  I have been playing for about 3 weeks and am up to lvl 34 hobbit thanks to having berendol as a personal mangband trainer (I must be driving him crazy with all the questions I ask him)

No kidding, dude... I live with the guy, and my greeting at the door is always "Hey guess what I found on Mangband today!" That lucky bum has found more good stuff in his first month than I've found the whole time I've been playing.. like 4 artifacts, and literally millions worth of rare items! Geez! Anyhow, I kinda like it, it gives me something to do when the other guys aren't over playin Worms World Party or Super Smash Bros Melee or whatever else. I recommend anyone to get some friends involved in the game - don't go it alone! PS, I now understand the code a whole heck of a lot better... making some truly evil stuff possible in the future

I've tried to get some people to play MAngband, but none of them really played it for long. My favorite response to MAngband was "why don't u play a real game like ............... diablo or something"

The graphics seem to make it boring for the less open-minded gamers. However, I completely agree with the statement "Beneath the simple graphics can lie worlds of complexity seldom to be found in other games."

Yah, I know what you mean, Ashi.  I usually get a 'That's a dumb name for a game; why would I play that?' or 'Where are the graphics?'  Hell, my roommate who introduced me to the game a couple years back gets irked when he sees me playing it.  He always say something like 'You're playing _that_ on your new box?  And we have DSL, you could be playing AO like me!'.  Some people, I swear.