About The Inverted Dungeon

The (lengthy / boring) Story of The Inverted Dungeon

A long time ago (so long ago it makes the editors of this site just a little sad about our misspent youth), there was a forum (originally built on SitePower, we think, and then upgraded to EzBoard). Said forum was a part of a web site called the Castlevania Dungeon, considered one of the biggest Castlevania fan-sites at the time.

As with any forum back in the early days of the Internet (back before the tubes were clogged with social networking, but long after they'd become delightfully clogged with porn), the fans flocked there to discuss their favorite games in their favorite series, because that's what people did before blogs, vlogs, tweets, tlogs, and all that other crap. As with any forum back in the Wild West of the 'net, though, it was eventually hacked. For a time the fans had no where to go, but eventually another forum was created (as part of the GameSpy Network which, while GameSpy still exists, its community network of hosted fan-sites does not). For some the joy was back; for others, however, the new wasn't quite like the old.

Those fans of the forum elected to create a new place for themselves with the blessing of the original Dungeon creator, Kurt Kalata, and this new forum was built back on EzBoard. That new place was known as The Bootleg Castlevania Dungeon Forum (in reference to the fact that it was designed to look like the old, beloved forum, yet not run by the site administration). This forum was eventually renamed The Inverted Castlevania Dungeon Forum; it then moved a couple of times, upgraded to newer engines, moved again, etc. As this "bootleg" forum grew in popularity, a small site was put together to aid the forum and give fans content they were asking for. And then more pages were added, and then more, and eventually the site grew large enough to be its own, unique entity.

Interestingly, after a while The Inverted Dungeon moved away from the old forum (which is now, actually, defunct, and we don't recommend trying to find the address for it as a spam-bot bought it up years later). A new forum was eventually made for the site, called the Clockwork Mansion, and it serves as a forum more appropriate to the content provided on the site, and more accommodating to the new hosted sites that were joining up with the Inverted Dungeon. (And, just because this seems to always be the way with these sites, that forum has been rebuilt once since it's original conception, due to being hacked.)

So, really, if you're keeping track, that means: Site >> Forum >> Forum >> Site >> Forum

Or, even more accurately: Site >> Forum >> Forum >> Forum >> Forum >> Forum >> Site >> Forum >> Forum

Welcome to the ICVD ReBirth

The current incarnation of The Inverted Dungeon is termed "ReBirth" (in reference to the series of remakes/reimaginings done by Konami under that same name). We call it "ReBirth" because the site has been completely remade, not just in the code and layout, but all the content, too. This is an all new site (nothing stays the same is what we're saying).

Now, we at the The Inverted Dungeon will admit that part of the need for this revamp is because we, as writers, failed to update this site for years (2012 - 2015, RIP). After a few calls for the site to "be less dead, damn it!", we gave in and got to work. This site has risen, like Dracula (only, you know, on an arguably faster time schedule).