Don't worry, this doesn't herald a hoard of adventurer eating monsters rapidly descending to munch their way through your base, rather it's a combination of two important pieces of news.

First off, there's something interesting lirking in the Blind software com blog and for all the spelliciously challenged, that is bsc, better known for some rather sophistimacated and cunning classic arcade audio games like Troopanum, see index and it's bigger meaner brother, Troopanum 2

to celibrate Developer Justin's birthday, the blog is having a special on the making of the troopanum games, complete with behind the scenes info and four parts of a podcast on the making of the game, including shenanigans, bloopers and everything you ever wanted to know about nasty Lord vector's evil minians.

Check out Pod part 1 here

going along with this, there's also a nice twenty percent off both troopanum and troopanum 2, ---- the prices on site will say the same, but the prices once you get into the ordering form will be different, so if your not familiar with this landmark audio game, feel free to check it out.

Now, while blasty alien ships of doom are undoubtedly nasty, your probably wondering where my old friend the grue comes from. This is from The darkgrue gamebook creator another of those handy and slightly mad products of the clever but mildly loopy Aprone.

A new version has arived, complete with the ability to add custom music to every section, pluss those handy bug fixes especially to screen reader and sapi support.

So, if you fancy creating something dungeonous, you know where to go!

Oh, and for the comfort and convenience of other net users, please do not leave comments about this game littering the public information super highways, but please place them in the forum topic provided

Happy gruepaning! hay, a new word.

Gruepane, verb, meaning to muck about with the dark grue gamebook creator while engaging in revels with the troopanum games, ---- Oxford English dictionary hear I come!

Afterall, it's such a useful word that could be helpful in so many everyday situations!¬