Development team

This list is up-to-date as of January 27, 2013.

For a more exhaustive and up-to-date list of Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup contributors, see: the official credit page

The Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Devteam

Developers	Aliases	Information
Peter Berger	peterb12	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.
Adam Borowski	castamir, kilobyte	Rewrote the save handling code to use single-file container saves. Also responsible for felids, Kirke, Khufu, the Windows installer and other such perversions of nature.
Samuel Bronson	SamB	Build system, code clean-up, ZotDef.
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 wizlabs, tons of new uniques, elephants, holy monsters and many other crimes too hideous to mention here.
Robert Burnham	Cryp71c	Melee combat rewrite, coded a lot of the new Demonspawn mutations.
Kate Campbell	kate-	Various balance-related changes, and occasionally other stuff too.
Matthew Cline	zelgadis, Matthew_Cline	The other member of the refactoring department; tiles expert 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.
Florian Diebold	edlothiol, fdiebold	Webtiles, amazing name.
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.
Brendan Hickey	bh	Chei, Newabyss and other bad ideas. Probably the worst player on the team.
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.
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.
Janne Lahdenperä	felirx	Drafted from the usability project, interface and tutorial code.
Raphaël Langella	galehar	Responsible for the skill system overhaul of 0.9. Has rewritten most of the mimic code. Ashenzari transfer knowledge.
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.
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.
Steve Melenchuk	sgrunt/Grunt	Responsible for: monsters wearing jewellery; improved explosive / bouncy spell targetter; additional Lua capabilities; lots of bugfixes; and a handful of vaults.
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.
Neil Moore	\amethyst	Twisted Resurrection rewrite; form-mutation interaction; bursty abyss morphing; orb spider implementation; Deal Four; assorted bugfixes and cleanup. Maintainer of crawl.s-z.org and the Cheibriados and Sizzell bots. Not a very good player.
Steven Noonan	mozillagodzilla, neunon	Build system and version control guru.
Charles Otto	caotto, pointless	Fedhas, articulated kraken, and other exploits of a decidedly tentacular nature. Iä!
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 chunks and blood to spatter everywhere, but probably a very nice person otherwise. On indefinite hiatus from Crawl.
Aaron Pixton	elliptic	Plays a lot; codes easy stuff; in charge of the tournament scripts.
David Ploog	dpeg, dploog	Gods.
David Lawrence Ramsey	dolorous	Source code cleanup department. Also, lots of the overhauled gods are coded by him.
Samuel Wilson	ontoclasm	Various tiles and other bad decisions.
Chris West	Frog Botherer	Android tiles port.
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 ruinreform ranged combat. Is actually good at crawl.

Noteworthy Non-Devteam Members

Developers	Aliases	Information
Rachel Elizabeth Dillon	rax	CAO sysop; tournament rules structure; currently mostly inactive but still maintaining hardware.
Marc H. Thoben	Napkin	CDO sysop; an all-around herolping hand.
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.
Markus Maier	Anym
Jarmo Kielosto	jarmok	A Crawl player circa 2006; wrote a script to autogenerate monster spoilers for Crawl, wrote the vampire patch.
	Denzi	Japanese tiles designer, created a huge part of Crawl's tile set from scratch.
	Eronarn	Octopodes, new Zin Recite.
Henry Cipolla	henryci	updated the Ctrl-O behavior in 0.6.
	Chapayev	Distinguished variant author; developed Sprint (and authored two maps), original author of ZotDef.
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!!
	djnrempel, danr	The DCSS forums maintainer.
Aaron Becker	greatzebu	OS X nightly build maintainer and occasional patch submitter.
Joshua	XuaXua	Playtester and frequent Mantis issue submitter who completely re-organized the development wiki in late 2011.
John McCartney	Roctavian	Started making tiles in late 2011. Plays terribly and has never seen most of his own tiles in-game.

Former Developers

Developers	Aliases	Information
Paul Du Bois	pauldubois
Linley Henzell		Initial author of Crawl
Haran Pilpel	haranp	2006; created autoinscriptions, notes, new Nemelex. Indefinite hiatus.
Erik Piper	erisdiscordia	Another founding developer. Designer.
Johanna Ploog	jpeg	2007. Wrote the original tutorial (now hints mode), Tiles expert.
Brent Ross		Another Crawl developer from before the Stone Soup project
Darshan Shaligram	greensnark, dshaligram	Created autotravel; automation expert, bots, !fight, tournaments; less active now. A founding developer.
Robert Vollmert	rvollmert, by
Enne Walker	Enne, ennewalker	2007; Tiles expert: author of the DCSS tiles port. Added subvault support for .des files. Indefinite hiatus.

External links

• Dev wiki
• Dev blog