JADE 0.2.0 released!

[adom-admin]

Dear community,


I hereby announce the release of


JADE 0.2.0 at http://www.adom.de/jade/downloads/ja...tart/index.php

JADE 0.2.0 is a very important milestone in the development of the game as this release
marks the first "real game" release of JADE. Compared to ADOM a lot of content is still
missing (as well as professions, quests, etc.) but with JADE 0.2.0 you for the first
time can play to win the game.


Additionally JADE in many areas now passes ADOM by including completely new features that
would be very hard or impossible to do well in ADOM. The highlights of the 0.2.0 release
include:

• the availability of all the well-known ADOM PC races as well as being able to choose to play fighters, tinkers, commoners and thieves
• multi-classing
• a construction and build system that allows manufacturing things
• vastly enhanced means of interaction with the environment
• more than hundred new items as well as more than two dozen new monsters
• more of everything including several minor story arc, one way to win the game and many other secret things

As JADE 0.2.0 has been a major upgrade (it bumps the lines of pure Java code from about
51.000 to 71.000) there probably will be a couple of rough edges but from now on I will
switch back to the "release early, release often" strategy with which I started.


If you are interested you can find the latest news as well as the download links for
JADE 0.2.0 at the official website:


http://www.ancientdomainsofmystery.c...-released.html

Feedback is welcome in the forums and the project management tools (for bugs and requests
for enhancements) at


http://www.adom.de/forums

Let me know what you tink, provide feedback and help to grow JADE far beyond ADOM (which
I would like to succeed with within the next nine months).


Yours truly


Thomas Biskup
ADOM & JADE Maintainer

[Laukku]

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[Dudley]

I'm gonna head to a statue right now! :3

Found it. Loved it.

[Laukku]

Who else talked to the wizened old man?

Man, this new storyline stuff just made me realise how awesome this 0.2.0 release actually is.

Also, I KILLED A CAT. IT DESERVED TO DIE. >:-D

[Travis Prue]

Yep, found the (SPOILER). (SPOILER) told me to goto several caverns to get the (SPOILER) and (SPOILER). Unfortunately, their locations and names are RANDOMIZED and you lose stats in the wilderness :/
Still love it though.