As some of you know, I'm a big fan of the DROD series of games. Wonderful puzzles, completely turn based so there's no reflex needed. Just brainpower.

And the diversity of elements involved lets there be some pretty amazing puzzles, interacting in ways you wouldn't think possible. There's a load of user-made holds as well, some as good as or better than the official levels.

Now that the bugs are worked out, they're finally releasing the third one in the series properly, burning it to CD and making it available that way.

Here's the City Beneath Trailer.

And here's the DROD website.

Go play the original (Architect's Edition). Go play Journey to Rooted Hold. Go play The City Beneath. They're all excellent.

Tinkering with fonts and sizes for this comic. Might keep this one, might not.

I felt this warranted a news post. My first ever win in Angband (just plain Angband, not a variant - I've won variants before). Used a Dwarf Warrior. The final battle against Morgoth was both epic and very difficult, but I triumphed.

Character dump here - Budkin III, the Dwarf Warrior

The comic just posted (here) yielded me my first ever negative/hate mail.

I'm not sure whether to be impressed, proud, amused or upset.

I'll settle on a combination of the four.

Yep, 500 strips. I feel amazingly smug.

And yes, the previous news post was an April Fool's joke.