Mr. Hewitt has finally decided to say goodbye to his old HTML website in favor of a more stylish, functional website. Say hello to the new GearHead website!

He is also informed me this will be an exciting year for all the GearHead community, as he plans to both finish GH2 and make important advancements of GH1. Cheers for him and good luck!

Two new interesting roguelike development blogs have arisen

http://mariosdevelopment.blogspot.com/
http://miragedev.blogspot.com/

Also, Thomas Biskup has solved his blogging issues and is actively communicating JADE development at his blog http://www.adom.de/blog/

On the other hand, a new IRC channel has been opened, #rgrd channel on irc.quakenet.org. Remember you can also join #rln at esper.net!

Good news for all ADOM-maniacs out there, Mr. Thomas Biskup, soon to be interviewed in roguetemple, has released his most awaited facelift for the ADOM and JADE website. It features a blog, through which you will be able to follow development closely and which will hopefully encourage him to work continuously on his project.

So, all you people that said ADOM and JADE were dead… you were wrong! :)

New website looks pretty nifty, congratulations Thomas! hopefully this is a goodbye to all those December-only post years :D

Browse http://www.adom.de/index.html and http://www.adom.de/blog/ for further info

Andrew Doull, roguelike developer and mantainer of roguetemple’s friend blogsite: Ascii Dreams, has finished a review for the outstanding Angband variant: SteamBand!

Steamband is a Steampunk / Victorian / Pulp variant of Angband, A roguelike ASCII dungeon exploration simulation game. Steamband was based off the 2.9.3 version of Angband source code.

Check out the review, reproduced here at roguetemple with his permission.

Be sure to check too the Verbose Dumps if you want to get a feeling of the game, and the excellent fan-art by ponpoko.

Ascii Dreams is a developer blog from the author of Unangband which is regularly updated and also features a good amount of articles and insight into the twisted world of roguelike game development.

From the website:

Spent too much time killing letters and collecting punctuation? Ever gone to sleep and seen ASCII in front of your eyes? This is the story of one developer pulling the levers behind the curtains, building the game he wants to play, and telling you like it is.

Check it out here

Also a new version of Unangband 0.6.2-wip6a is available.