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This list is up-to-date as of January 27, 2013.
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For a more exhaustive list of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup contributors, see: [https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/master/crawl-ref/CREDITS.txt the official credit page]
  
For a more exhaustive and up-to-date list of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup contributors, see: [https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/master/crawl-ref/CREDITS.txt the official credit page]
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==The Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Devteam==
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* Aaron Pixton
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* Adam Borowski
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* Advil
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* Aidan Holm
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* Alan Malloy
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* CanOfWorms
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* Charles Otto
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* Chris West
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* Corin Buchanan-Howland
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* Darby
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* David Ploog
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* DracoOmega
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* Edgar A. Bering IV
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* Eino Keskitalo
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* Félix Medrano
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* Florian Diebold
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* Gammafunk
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* Hellmonk
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* Implojin
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* James Bulgin
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* Janne Lahdenperä
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* Jesse Luehrs
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* John McCartney
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* Jude Brown
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* Kate Campbell
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* Marc H. Thoben
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* Matthew Cline
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* Michael Gagno
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* Nat Lanza
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* Neil Middleton
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* Neil Moore
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* Nicholas Feinberg
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* Nicolae
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* Nikolai Lavsky
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* Odds
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* Pekka Lampila
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* Peter Berger
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* Pete Hurst
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* Raphaël Langella
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* Rax E. Dillon
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* Regret-Index
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* Robert Burnham
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* Sage
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* Samuel Bronson
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* Samuel Wilson
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* Sastreii
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* Seve Monahan
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* Shayne Halvorson
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* Shmuale Mark
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* Stefan O'Rear
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* Steve Melenchuk
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* Steven Noonan
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* Vsevolod Kozlov
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* Wizard Ike
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==Former Developers==
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'''Many thanks to:'''
  
==The Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Devteam==
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* Linley Henzell, the author of Dungeon Crawl, for writing this great game.
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* Brent Ross, Dungeon Crawl 4.0/4.1 maintainer. Stone Soup owes a lot of his ideas and code in Crawl 4.1.
! '''Developers'''
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! '''Aliases'''
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* Other members of the 4.0 Crawl development team:
! '''Information'''
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** Brian Robinson
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** Daniel Ligon
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** Don Brodale
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** Gordon Lipford
| '''Peter Berger'''
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** Guus Sliepen
| peterb12
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** Jesse Jones
| Involved in founding but rarely seen now; registered (with Nat Lanza) crawl-ref project on Sourceforge, began the use of text databases with the BDB database for quotes.
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** Josh Fishman
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** Mark Mackey
| '''Adam Borowski'''
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** Michal Valvoda
| castamir, kilobyte
 
| Rewrote the save handling code to use single-file container saves. Also responsible for [[felid]]s, [[Kirke]], [[Khufu]], the Windows installer and other such perversions of nature.
 
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| '''Samuel Bronson'''
 
| SamB
 
| Build system, code clean-up, ZotDef.
 
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| '''Jude Brown'''
 
| bookofjude, due
 
| Portal vaults and Lua miracle worker. Leans toward design but less so than dpeg. Is the miscreant responsible for such diverse felonies and misdemeanours as [[wizlab]]s, tons of new uniques, [[elephant]]s, [[list of holy monsters|holy monsters]] and many other crimes too hideous to mention here.
 
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| '''Robert Burnham'''
 
| Cryp71c
 
| Melee combat rewrite, coded a lot of the new [[Demonspawn mutations]].
 
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| '''Chris Campbell'''
 
| MarvinPA
 
| Various balance-related changes, and occasionally other stuff too.
 
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| '''Matthew Cline'''
 
| zelgadis, Matthew_Cline
 
| The other member of the refactoring department; tiles <s>expert</s> newbie, and C++ expert; the man behind CrawlHashTable, Lua triggerables, greatly expanded monster speech lookup with @variables@, and lots of other work on .des file support.
 
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| '''Florian Diebold'''
 
| edlothiol, fdiebold
 
| Webtiles, amazing name.
 
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| '''Michael Gagno'''
 
| evilmike
 
| Makes a lot of vaults, maintains old ones, and usually adds new ones submitted to the tracker. Prefers level design. Inactive in Crawl development for the foreseeable future.
 
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| '''Brendan Hickey'''
 
| bh
 
| [[Chei]], [[The Abyss|Newabyss]] and other bad ideas. Probably the worst player on the team.
 
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| '''Eino Keskitalo'''
 
| evktalo, Keskitalo
 
| Came up with [[the Sewers]] and [[Ice Cave]] portal vaults (with maps from others); former Windows trunk builds clerk; usability project member, helps with infrastructure (Mantis and Wiki). A fantasy hipster.
 
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| '''Vsevolod Kozlov'''
 
| zaba
 
| Inducted for various code cleanups; actor layer expert. Also does elaborate vaults and is extremely fond of billy goats and GNU screen.
 
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| '''Janne Lahdenperä'''
 
| felirx
 
| Drafted from the usability project, interface and tutorial code.
 
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| '''Raphaël Langella'''
 
| galehar
 
| Responsible for the [[skill]] system overhaul of [[0.9]]. Has rewritten most of the [[mimic]] code. [[Ashenzari]] transfer knowledge.
 
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| '''Nat Lanza'''
 
| nlanza
 
| Involved in founding (registered crawl-ref on SF with Peter Berger) but rarely seen now. Used to work on the Mac build system and created the Xcode project.
 
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| '''Jesse Luehrs'''
 
| doy
 
| Mostly involved in design, with a few bugfixes here and there, familiar with Lua. Responsible for the new ruined [[Lair]] builder and dynamic colours for features among other work. Maintainer of the [[Ashenzari]] bot for ##crawl-dev.
 
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| '''Steve Melenchuk'''
 
| sgrunt/Grunt
 
| Responsible for: monsters wearing [[jewellery]]; improved explosive / bouncy spell targetter; additional Lua capabilities; lots of bugfixes; and a handful of [[vault]]s.
 
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| '''Neil Middleton'''
 
| Mu/itsmu
 
| Vault designer of great notoriety, responsible for a Sprint map filled with damnation, a lot of maps in [[Hell]], and more fleshy orifices than the author of this entry cares to contemplate.
 
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| '''Neil Moore'''
 
| \amethyst
 
| [[Twisted Resurrection (player spell)|Twisted Resurrection]] rewrite; form-mutation interaction; bursty abyss morphing; [[orb spider]] implementation; [[Nemelex Xobeh|Deal Four]]; assorted bugfixes and cleanup. Maintainer of crawl.s-z.org and the Cheibriados and Sizzell bots. Not a very good player.
 
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| '''Steven Noonan'''
 
| mozillagodzilla, neunon
 
| Build system and version control guru.
 
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| '''Charles Otto'''
 
| caotto, pointless
 
| [[Fedhas]], articulated [[kraken]], and other exploits of a decidedly tentacular nature. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu Iä!]
 
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| '''Stefan O'Rear'''
 
| sorear, stefanor
 
| Formerly very active on IRC; C++ knowledge; stays as far away from design as he can. The author of the [[disintegration]] effect that causes [[chunk]]s and blood to spatter everywhere, but probably a very nice person otherwise. On indefinite hiatus from Crawl.
 
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| '''Aaron Pixton'''
 
| elliptic
 
| Plays a lot; codes easy stuff; in charge of the tournament scripts.
 
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| '''David Ploog'''
 
| dpeg, dploog
 
| [[God]]s.
 
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| '''David Lawrence Ramsey'''
 
| dolorous
 
| Source code cleanup department. Also, lots of the overhauled gods are coded by him.
 
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| '''Samuel Wilson'''
 
| ontoclasm
 
| Various tiles and other bad decisions.
 
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| '''Chris West'''
 
| Frog Botherer
 
| Android tiles port.
 
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| '''Corin Buchanan-Howard'''
 
| Lasty
 
| [[Ru]]. Ukayaw the god of ecstatic dance. Wanderer tweaks. Removing fun. Caustic shrikes and other late-game threats. Amulet reform. Plans to <strike>ruin</strike>reform ranged combat.  [http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/lasty.html Is actually good at crawl.]
 
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==Noteworthy Non-Devteam Members==
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* Darshan Shaligram and Erik Piper, for starting the Stone Soup project, and rekindling interest in Crawl development.
{| class="prettytable" cellpadding="5" border="1"
 
|- align="center"
 
! '''Developers'''
 
! '''Aliases'''
 
! '''Information'''
 
|-
 
! colspan="18" align="center" |
 
|-
 
| '''Rachel Elizabeth Dillon'''
 
| rax
 
| CAO sysop; tournament rules structure; currently mostly inactive but still maintaining hardware.
 
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| '''Marc H. Thoben'''
 
| Napkin
 
| CDO sysop; an all-around he<s>ro</s>lping hand.
 
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| '''Lemuel Pitkin'''
 
| Lemuel
 
| Vault designer of such infamy that his name has become legend in Crawl circles. Responsible for such masterpieces as River_Lethe and acid_trip_lemuel.
 
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| '''Markus Maier'''
 
| Anym
 
|
 
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| '''Jarmo Kielosto'''
 
| jarmok
 
| A ''[[Crawl]]'' player circa 2006; wrote a script to autogenerate monster spoilers for Crawl, wrote the [[vampire]] patch.
 
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|
 
| Denzi
 
| Japanese tiles designer, created a huge part of ''Crawl'''s tile set from scratch.
 
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|
 
| Eronarn
 
| [[Octopode]]s, new [[Zin]] Recite.
 
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| '''Henry Cipolla'''
 
| henryci
 
| updated the Ctrl-O behavior in [[0.6]].
 
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|
 
| Chapayev
 
| Distinguished variant author; developed [[Dungeon Sprint|Sprint]] (and authored two maps), original author of [[Zot Defence|ZotDef]].
 
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| '''Mark Mackey'''
 
| atomjack
 
| Long time Crawler, DC 4.0 devteam member; brought ZotDef into [[0.7]] with much tweaking, clean-up and rebalancing. Also the author of the awesome XQuest!!
 
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|
 
| djnrempel, danr
 
| The DCSS forums maintainer.
 
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| '''Aaron Becker'''
 
| greatzebu
 
| OS X nightly build maintainer and occasional patch submitter.
 
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| '''Joshua'''
 
| XuaXua
 
| Playtester and frequent Mantis issue submitter who completely re-organized the development wiki in late 2011.
 
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| '''John McCartney'''
 
| Roctavian
 
| Started making tiles in late 2011. Plays terribly and has never seen most of his own tiles in-game.
 
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==Former Developers==
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* Other retired members of the development team:
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** David Lawrence Ramsey
|- align="center"
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** Enne Walker
! '''Developers'''
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** Isaac Sloat
! '''Aliases'''
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** J. Van
! '''Information'''
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** Johanna Ploog
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** Paul Du Bois
! colspan="18" align="center" |
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** Robert Vollmert
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** Haran Pilpel
| '''Paul Du Bois'''
 
| pauldubois
 
|
 
|-
 
| '''[[Linley Henzell]]'''
 
|
 
| Initial author of ''Crawl''
 
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| '''Haran Pilpel'''
 
| haranp
 
| 2006; created autoinscriptions, notes, new Nemelex. Indefinite hiatus.
 
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| '''Erik Piper'''
 
| erisdiscordia
 
| Another founding developer. Designer.
 
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| '''Johanna Ploog'''
 
| jpeg
 
| 2007. Wrote the original [[tutorial]] (now hints mode), Tiles expert.
 
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| '''[[Brent Ross]]'''
 
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| Another Crawl developer from before the Stone Soup project
 
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| '''Darshan Shaligram'''
 
| greensnark, dshaligram
 
| Created autotravel; automation expert, bots, !fight, tournaments; less active now. A founding developer.
 
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| '''Robert Vollmert'''
 
| rvollmert, by
 
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| '''Enne Walker'''
 
| Enne, ennewalker
 
| 2007; Tiles expert: author of the DCSS tiles port. Added subvault support for .des files. Indefinite hiatus.
 
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==External links==
 
==External links==

Latest revision as of 10:07, 18 September 2026

For a more exhaustive list of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup contributors, see: the official credit page

The Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Devteam

  • Aaron Pixton
  • Adam Borowski
  • Advil
  • Aidan Holm
  • Alan Malloy
  • CanOfWorms
  • Charles Otto
  • Chris West
  • Corin Buchanan-Howland
  • Darby
  • David Ploog
  • DracoOmega
  • Edgar A. Bering IV
  • Eino Keskitalo
  • Félix Medrano
  • Florian Diebold
  • Gammafunk
  • Hellmonk
  • Implojin
  • James Bulgin
  • Janne Lahdenperä
  • Jesse Luehrs
  • John McCartney
  • Jude Brown
  • Kate Campbell
  • Marc H. Thoben
  • Matthew Cline
  • Michael Gagno
  • Nat Lanza
  • Neil Middleton
  • Neil Moore
  • Nicholas Feinberg
  • Nicolae
  • Nikolai Lavsky
  • Odds
  • Pekka Lampila
  • Peter Berger
  • Pete Hurst
  • Raphaël Langella
  • Rax E. Dillon
  • Regret-Index
  • Robert Burnham
  • Sage
  • Samuel Bronson
  • Samuel Wilson
  • Sastreii
  • Seve Monahan
  • Shayne Halvorson
  • Shmuale Mark
  • Stefan O'Rear
  • Steve Melenchuk
  • Steven Noonan
  • Vsevolod Kozlov
  • Wizard Ike

Former Developers

Many thanks to:

  • Linley Henzell, the author of Dungeon Crawl, for writing this great game.
  • Brent Ross, Dungeon Crawl 4.0/4.1 maintainer. Stone Soup owes a lot of his ideas and code in Crawl 4.1.
  • Other members of the 4.0 Crawl development team:
    • Brian Robinson
    • Daniel Ligon
    • Don Brodale
    • Gordon Lipford
    • Guus Sliepen
    • Jesse Jones
    • Josh Fishman
    • Mark Mackey
    • Michal Valvoda
  • Darshan Shaligram and Erik Piper, for starting the Stone Soup project, and rekindling interest in Crawl development.
  • Other retired members of the development team:
    • David Lawrence Ramsey
    • Enne Walker
    • Isaac Sloat
    • J. Van
    • Johanna Ploog
    • Paul Du Bois
    • Robert Vollmert
    • Haran Pilpel

External links