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[Tilla]

http://www.adom.de/blog/2011/06/26/jade-is-coming/



This thing has been on the backburner for several years but within the next two days, the successor to ADOM is having it's first techdemo/alpha release! The first time JADE is referenced on the official website is 1998! More details about Doctor Biskup's plans are on his website, but a quick feature synopsis:

JADE will basically have everything ADOM has and a lot more. Plans include:

A complete world with continents, weather patterns, settlements, dungeons and strange places, either randomly generated at the start of each game or chosen from a number of preselected worlds.
A quest generator for random quests. No two games ever will be the same.
Dungeon and world size only limited by the boundaries of Java-technology and your hardware.
No classes, but a detailed skill system, together with a guild system providing special benefits for guild membership.
All the races from ADOM and a few more (mist elves, ratlings, hill dwarves).
Complete freedom in what you want to do (e.g. explore dungeons, work as a caravan guardian, build your own castle, conquer cities, lead a life as a simple farmer, become a shopkeeper or whatever).
Hidden plots. (Has Chaos been truly defeated in ADOM or is something lurking behind the scenes and waiting?)
Monster inventories.
The ability to transform into another being.
A detailed system for morale values (on an Order...Balance...Chaos scale) and ethics (on a Good...Uncaring...Evil scale).
Platform independence due to Java-based technology.
Compressed save files.



I am so freaking stoked!


(Edited to add the obligatory reference:

Winter is coming)

[Blaze]

Sweet Cacame's Mullet. Do Want.
I thought JADE would turn out to be the Duke Nukem Forever of roguelikes.

[breadbocks]

What does JADE stand for?

[Blaze]

What does JADE stand for?

Java-Based Ancient Domain Engine.

[Vherid]

This sounds fucking amazing.

[Yoink]

Jaded and Ambiguous Developer's Enigma?
I am excited, too! Looks pretty awesome. Is it... Open or closed Alpha? *Braces self for disappointment*

[ductape]

Will likely take him 10 years to finish his planned features, knowing his track record.

[Tilla]

Will likely take him 10 years to finish his planned features, knowing his track record.

It might but he's barely been working on it at all over the past several years due to pursuing his PhD.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Will likely take him 10 years to finish his planned features, knowing his track record.

It might but he's barely been working on it at all over the past several years due to pursuing his PhD.

Does the story in these quotes sound....familiar... to anyone else?

[Tilla]

Will likely take him 10 years to finish his planned features, knowing his track record.

It might but he's barely been working on it at all over the past several years due to pursuing his PhD.

Does the story in these quotes sound....familiar... to anyone else?

The similarities to Toady are pretty immense yah. The way he describes ADOM sounds an awful lot like DF adventure mode.

[Infuriated]

Looks pretty amazing.

Also, It's startling to have your name leap out at you in caps when your browsing, haha.

[nenjin]

Never tried ADOM but I'm interested. I take the whole game is in ASCII?

[Xgamer4]

My reaction:
"...JADE? Isn't that the game that's been in development hell for the past decade? No... it couldn't be..."
*scrolls down*
O_O
"IT IS! WOW!"

[Yoink]

My reaction:
"...JADE? Isn't that the game that's been in development hell for the past decade? No... it couldn't be..."
*scrolls down*
O_O
"IT IS! WOW!"

Obviously inspired by Duke Nukem's recent, surprising release.

[Tilla]

Never tried ADOM but I'm interested. I take the whole game is in ASCII?

Yup