Demographics of this Community

[inkydood]

Age: 22
Sex: M
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Citizenship: USA
Languages spoken: English
Education: BA in English, BA in History w/Political Science minor
Family Status: Single.
Occupation: Unemployed. I'm bad. I'll be teaching soon enough.
Computer platform: Windows XP on the desktop, Ubuntu on laptop.
DCSS versions played: Since .7
Play Crawl because: No other turn-based fantasy game, save Brogue (and Fire Emblem), respects its players enough to ditch tedium and reliance on spoilers.
Background story as a Rogue-like Player: Crawl was the only game I could find worth playing on the Ubuntu Software Center, before I figured out how to find/install programs on Linux. I dunno who maintains that thing, but consider updating it-- new players come in from unexpected sources.
Reason for user name: I don't like having to think of clever usernames
Reason for avatar: It's glorious
First Rogue-like played: Crawl.

[Confidence Interval]

Aged
Gender: Yes please!
Ethnicity: Pictish
Citizenship: UK
Education: Doctoral level.
Occupation: Public health academic and practitioner (about 50% of each).
Computer platform: Windows.
DCSS versions played: Since .5.
Play Crawl because: I could quit anytime I wanted. I just choose not to.
Background story as a Rogue-like Player: It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.
Reason for user name: Pretty obvious
Reason for avatar: I'm a donkey and I lick myself clean.
First Rogue-like played: Angband. I'm glad to have moved on.

[BlackSheep]

Education: Doctoral level.
Occupation: Public health academic and practitioner (about 50% of each).

Oooh, should we call you Dr. ConfInt from now on?

[Confidence Interval]

Education: Doctoral level.
Occupation: Public health academic and practitioner (about 50% of each).

Oooh, should we call you Dr. ConfInt from now on?

I publish as Dr C. Interval, and that's how you can find me on PubMed.

[BlackSheep]

I publish as Dr C. Interval, and that's how you can find me on PubMed.

You should shorten that to Dr. C. and let everyone think it stands for Crawl.

[Confidence Interval]

I publish as Dr C. Interval, and that's how you can find me on PubMed.

You should shorten that to Dr. C. and let everyone think it stands for Crawl.

That would be an agreeable change. Currently everyone thinks it stands for Creep.

[Stormfox]

Age: 41
Sex: Male
Citizenship: USA
Languages spoken: 'Murrican, though I can speak English if I put my mind to it.
Education: B.S.
Family Status: Married, one daughter
Occupation: Government IT
Computer platform: Debian (work), Mac (home)
DCSS versions played: Since 0.4
Play Crawl because: More fun than Nethack's play-the-metagame-not-the-game, or Angband's play-conservatively-and-die-of-boredom-or-play-boldly-and-die-horribly, or ADOM's a-bad-choice-on-turn-100-means-you're-screwed-on-turn-50k-and-you-can't-fix-it.
Background story as a Rogue-like Player: Discovered Rogue during an early computer class on a mainframe while waiting for programs to compile. Played a bunch since then, including but not limited to (and in no particular order): Nethack, Angband, ADOM, Omega, Castle of the Winds, Wizard's Castle, The Dungeon of Doom, Sword of Fargoal, Diablo I/II, Shiren the Wanderer, and Linley's Crawl.
Reason for user name: I chose this one for Puzzle Pirates back in the day for reasons that are irrelevant in my life now. It's useful as a gaming name because, well, it has no relation to my life, so that means it's just a game.
First Rogue-like played: Rogue. On a VAX. Hence my right to use the term "whippersnapper".

[Sporkman]

Age: 20
Sex: M
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Citizenship: United States
Languages: English, a bit of German.
Education: College
Occupation: Student
Operating System: Windows XP (out of lack of a sufficently good computer to run 7 without making it impossible to play games)
DCSS Style: Tiles Offline, Trunk if possible.
Reason for Playing: It's fun.
Roguelike History: I started playing Nethack via Vulture's Eye, then changed over to SLASH'EM via Vulture's Claw. I loved the idea (and still do), hated the incredibly high difficulty curve. I could never stand entirely-ASCII interfaces, as I'm much more of a visual player, and thus didn't like a lot of Rougelikes due to that (though I eventually learned to put up with text adventure/IF games). Eventually I stumbled onto the Dungeon Crawl TVTropes page, downloaded it, and rapidly found that it was much less hair-pullingly difficult than Nethack.
Username History: It was funny at the time.
Avatar History: n/a... so far.
First Rogue-like: Nethack

[Jabberwocky]

O.K., I've reacted, and quite swiftly. It felt pretty good.

What happened?

[Grimm]

I got wood.

[XuaXua]

Norwegian?

[Grimm]

Neither Swedish Norwegian.

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

Family status: Not married

То есть на

и на

я не тяну, да?

[Deimos]

Is that treasure island?

[Confidence Interval]

Is that treasure island?

Yes. MyO received the Black Spot by email.

[MyOtheHedgeFox]

No, I did not.
But this bugger called me Captain Smollett!
At least I'm not squire Trelony...

[Grimm]

In Soviet Russia, squire Trelony wishes he wasn't YOU!

[VargrVeum]

Age: 28
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Citizenship: English
Languages spoken: English
Education: BA English Lit and Film Studies (yeah, wasn't thinking in terms of career.)
Family Status: Unmarried, no bastards, one rat, one cat, one beloved
Occupation: Team administrator and analyst with NHS
Computer platform: Windows, ascii (because i enjoy getting excited about strangely coloured parentheses)
DCSS versions played: From about .5 i think
Play Crawl because: Long term love of the genre and procedural games in general. Picked DCSS over other roguelikes because of the gods and magic. Love that feeling of a metanarrative so hard to achieve in a randomised game
Background story as a Rogue-like Player: Memories of my dad teaching me Rogue on the spectrum (and being a little sucked in by the shamelessly lurid and misrepresentative http://cdn1.spong.com/pack/r/o/rogue208421/_-Rogue-Spectrum-48K-_.jpg cover art
Reason for user name: Edda geek - like the idea of the wolf in the sanctum. Do some recording under the name.
Reason for avatar: Chaos Uber Alles! Hail Eris! etc.
First Rogue-like played: Rogue on the spectrum

[jtron]

Age: 36
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: "White"
Citizenship: USA
Languages spoken: English. Remember smatterings of French and Latin from school, plus basic basic Japanese.
Education: Tons of college but never graduated (though I have an Associate's in there somewhere); mostly film studies, some theater and history
Family Status: Married, no kids, 3 cats, 1 dog, 1 housemate.
Occupation: Graphic Designer/Video Guy/DJ/Music Promoter/Voiceover Artist Aging Hipster
Or as my business card says...

Computer platform: Mac, Windows, Ubuntu
DCSS versions played: Trunk tiles
Play Crawl because: It's the best dungeon-crawler, ever. It's what I wanted games like this to be like for years, if that makes any sense. Also I need a proper distraction while rendering video projects, and I'm on self-imposed permanent hiatus from my favorite online community.
Background story as a Rogue-like Player: Remember playing HACK as a kid; years later tried NetHack and hated it, but always liked the concept of the roguelike. Was playing Dwarf Fortress until it expanded into the Z-axis. Also play Dungeons of Dredmor but prefer the pace of Crawl.
Reason for user name: Old nickname, eternal Internet handle, current DJ alias
Reason for avatar: I often play as a Troll Monk named "Banner." HULK SMASH SIGMUND!
First Rogue-like played: ...Hack? Maybe Moria? I have been a computer geek since 1981 or so.

[Jabberwocky]

I like your business card.

[Roderic]

Age: 31
Sex: M
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Citizenship: Spanish
Languages spoken: Spanish, English and bits of Japanese
Education: Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
Family Status: Single
Occupation: Researcher
Computer platform: Windows at home, Ubuntu at work
DCSS versions played: Since 0.7, always ASCII offline
Play Crawl because: Very dynamical battles, no spoilery required, a lot of styles allowed, good interface and you can even design vaults.
Background story as a Rogue-like Player: I found Rogue in a on line implementation 6 years ago, then found rogue-like genre and went to NetHack, later Slash'em, I tried ADOM and finally heard about DCSS as a ruthless, hard, unfair game and I fell in love with. Later on I have played DoomRL, AlienRL, Steamband and some other that I cannot remember.
Reason for user name: Taken from a random generator of names of some sort. There's no story behind.
Reason for avatar: It was an attempt to design a player tile for a Treant species
First Rogue-like played: Rogue

[Stornor]

Age: 34
Sex: M
Citizenship: French
Languages spoken:French, German, English and some Spanish
Education:
Family Status: Wife, house, two girls, the third one is coming
Occupation: Developpement and Research Engineer
Computer platform: Windows
DCSS versions played: Since 0.8 (last summer i think) mostly playing offline due to webtiles lagging or disappearing regularly
Play Crawl because: It's the game I have been searching since I couldn't Tabletop RPG anymorewith my childhood friends. Dungeon, turn-by-turn, medieval settings, potions, swords, warriors, dragons and such. Further more i can stop playing whenever i need to and with wife house and 2 kids, it is a necessary feature.

[Denniz]

Age: 52
Sex: M
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Citizenship: USA
Languages spoken: English
Education: AS in Data Processing (Computer Science to you young folks )
Family Status: Single
Occupation: BIPM Consultant
Computer platform: Windows
DCSS versions played: 0.8 thru 0.11, TIles
Play Crawl because: Found Rogue on DOSWin32 which I remembered fondly, played it awhile, went looking for something newer, found Crawl which has ruined me for all other games. Totally addicted.
First Rogue-like played: Rogue

[ketsa]

Age: 40
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Citizenship: Swiss
Languages spoken: French, Some English
Education: IT-Programming.
Occupation: Unemployed and happy. no desire to look back.
Computer platform: Windows 8 testing, Debian
DCSS versions played: Tiles, its so much better than ascii I completely stopped playing it.
Play Crawl because: It's fun, i have a problem with inventory management but thats me, like in life.