Game News JADE is Here

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<p>Thomas Biskup, of <a href="http://www.adom.de/adom/roguelike.php3" target="_blank">Ancient Domains of Mystery</a> fame &amp; fortune, has released <a href="http://www.ancientdomainsofmystery.com/2011/07/announcing-jade-011.html" target="_blank"><strong>JADE 0.1.1</strong></a>, followed within hours by <a href="http://www.ancientdomainsofmystery.com/2011/07/jade-012-has-been-released.html" target="_blank"><strong>JADE 0.1.2</strong></a>. Head <a href="http://www.adom.de/jade/downloads/javawebstart/index.php" target="_blank">here</a> to get your roguelike on.<br /><br /><em>Thanks to Palikka &amp; DakaSha</em></p>

 

Sure is barebones around here. Seems to be workjing nicely, though.

 

Lol, java. Suck my dick.

 

Well it is 0.1.2 version.

 

Heh, read about it... 10 years ago? Nice to see it might be going somewhere after all!

 

And here I was thinking this JADE thing would never see the light of the day in any form whatsoever... gives hope for other vaporwareish projects!

 

Duke Nukem and now this. World must be about to end.

 

I'm not going to spew fanboy retardation here and there is no way to know whether this will actually be good but complaining/criticizing (not that a lot here are) an extremely early alpha (by an already accomplished dev) makes you look like you are trying to hard.

that said there isnt really much reason to play at this point beyond 'testing'. Lets hope it turns out to be as great as ADoM

 

Holy shit, a JADE release? I thought this was going to be a prank or something.

 

http://www.adom.de/blog/2011/06/11/jade-start-tiny-instead-of-small/

 

The ITZ draws near.

 

I'd rather play games in Java than the putrid shit people do with .NET, like Caves of Qud, which fuckin REQUIRES a gig of memory just because.

 

Same here, though I wasn't really complaining, just pointing somthing out.

 

So its the same game, but in Java?

 

yes and no, it should be a better game as he has the ADOM experience, but it should be a better/different game since he started from scratch... but we need to come back here in july 2014when playable version 0.9.4 is released ( that's the version that I started to play ADOM back in 1998 or something and it was pretty complete and stable ) to see if that happened

 

Big map, larger starting city. None of the peasants has anything to say. No swim code yet, so you can travel anywhere but high mountains to get a feel for the whole map. Swam ac ross the sea and found a dungeon, although I think I may have wrapped around the world and come back to the same continent.

Fighting works at a very basic level, but seems easy. Orcs. Goblins. Rats. Good thing he got the most important critters in first. Thank god no cats. Yet.

Looks good so far, but I think I'll wait until there's more to it. I'm looking forward to when/if this gets up to the level ADOM is at. It will be nice playing without knowing all the spoilers again!

 

Wait until you meet king of rats.

 

So what has he been doing with this for ten years exactly

 

Hell yeah, Biskup is back!

Give it ten more years and it'll probably be almost as good as ADOM but much less relevant!

Also, we could run a retardo snail race sweepstake thing on which game gets released first - JADE or AoD

 

From what he wrote, he spent the last couple of years years getting married, moving to a new house, getting a PhD. So, in a nutshell, he's just began working on it for reals.

 

Grimoire must be just around the corner

 

Is there anything special about this roguelike?

Because, just by taking a quick look at it, the only difference I see to the other ~2.000 roguelikes out there is that it only offers 3 races (yeah, 0.12, I know).

 

Er...judging by the title, the fact it's in Java? I dunno.