Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos entering Steam Early Access February 11, 2021!
Together with developer Team ADOM, we at Assemble Entertainment announced today the rogue-like dungeon crawler Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos, heading to Steam Early Access on February 11, 2021, for Windows PC, MacOS, and Linux.
Ultimate ADOM is a traditionally-inspired reimaging of the beloved genre and features endless procedurally generated dungeons, monsters, and crafting options, allowing for ultimate replayability.
Evil has been vanquished. Peace has returned to Ancardia, and the peasants dare to dream once more of prosperity. Seven very different factions vie for control over the cataclysmic aftermath left behind by Andor Drakon’s defeat. And somewhere, deep down in an inhospitable cave, chaos is stirring again. Pick up your blade, prepare your spells, check your daggers and ready your bow, for you are about to enter the ominous Caverns of Chaos. Choose your allegiance carefully, for you are nothing more than an expendable asset to the masters you choose.
Fight for a mercenary's glory and a hefty coin purse, for the justice of a community in decline, for the light of purity, or even for chaos itself. Every choice you make will determine how you approach the ever-changing Caverns of Chaos laid out before you.
“To be the person who originated a game with an active and dedicated community since 1994 makes me unbelievably proud," said Thomas Biskup, Creator of ADOM. "After 25 years we will continue the story of ADOM and bring that experience into the modern realm. Ultimate ADOM: Caverns of Chaos offers plenty of depth for seasoned vets of the genre but with all the tweaks, options, and quality of life adjustments that ensure a smooth and enjoyable experience for the contemporary player.”
Watch the Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos announcement trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhkALyxe_kY
Features of Ultimate ADOM Include:
Depth for Days — Choose from a huge selection of classes, genders, races, and allegiances to mix and match the perfect build for your playstyle
A Proper Roguelike — Procedurally generated levels, monsters, and items ensure no playthrough is the same
More Spells Than a Hogwarts Textbook — With multiple specialized schools of magic and more than 100 spells to choose from, dungeon-diving wizards have plenty at their disposal to get them through the darkness
That’s a Nice Arm You’ve Got There... — Take the severed limbs of your enemies and graft them to your own body, after all, more hands = more weapons to hold
A Jack of All Trades — With more than 80 skill trees, aspiring dungeon delvers have plenty of choices when it comes to crafting the ultimate warrior, and then there are the dozens of secret skills waiting to be discovered!
Go Modern or Keep it Classic — Modern graphics or traditional ASCII, the choice is yours! Players can also toggle between 3D mode and top-down view.
Ultimate ADOM Early Access will launch on Windows PC, MacOS, and Linux via Steam on February 11, 2021!
42 more hours until the ADOM RPG Kickstarter ends
Hi everyone!
Just another quick note about the ADOM pen & paper RPG Kickstarter currently running its final 42 hours at https://www.adom.de/rpg-kickstarter:
The Kickstarter was funded on day 1 and we unlocked extra art, extra pages for the Game Master's Guide with all kinds of Ancardian randomness as well as a Game Master Screen. And now we are very close to unlocking the first adventure.
We have hired some famous RPG legends like Ed Greenwood (the creator of the Forgotten Realms), James M. Ward (the mastermind behind Metamorphosis Alpha and Gamma World), Steve Miller (renowned Ravenloft and Dragonlance designer) and some more to write short stories taking place in the world of ADOM - a free add-on for all campaign donors.
You also can get a glimpse at the awesome art we have licensed for the rulebooks: https://www.adom-rpg.com/2019/02/11/the-art-of-the-adom-rpg/
Naturally there will be tie-ins between the ADOM pen & paper RPG, Ultimate ADOM and the ADOM computer game. Various ideas floating around for designs for the two new projects also will make their way into ADOM... from a new approach to racial abilities, revised class abilities, new options for spellcasters and more. So we are happy to have more than enough stuff to create new ADOM versions for years to come ;-)
Thanks for your support - and feel free to support our efforts with a donation to the Kickstarter campaign if you haven't yet donated!
Thomas Biskup & Team ADOM
ADOM 3.3.3 released
Hi everyone!
Though it's a minor release for Steam we are proud to announce the availability of ADOM 3.3.3 on Steam:
(and please forgive us the temporary extra click to skip the screen pointing to our ADOM RPG Kickstarter - but small indie companies need all the attention they can get and we love your support and value your feedback!)
Thomas Biskup
ADOM Maintainer
Kickstarter Announcement: ADOM the Roleplaying game
Hi everyone!
Today I have an ADOM-related announcement!
ADOM is branching out into new media:
Our Kickstarter campaign for the ADOM pen & paper roleplaying game now is live: https://www.adom.de/rpg-kickstarter
This is really exciting for the current ADOM game, too, for several reasons (besides broadening the audience):
Design work currently happening for ADOM RPG will affect the development of Ultimate ADOM (and on the very high backer levels you even can have a direct hand in this).
Some of the design ideas in the ADOM RPG (e.g. racial powers growing over time with increasing levels; revised class powers) eventually will make their way back into ADOM to improve the ADOM gameplay.
You will finally be able to play ADOM as a pen & paper RPG with a much more complete, modern and very fast & furious ruleset (compared to the limited ADOM Lite edition we released a couple of years ago - this is a completely new design from the ground up)
You can find some more information on features that might make its way into future ADOM releases here:
Please help us to spread the word - during our 2012 crowdfunding campaign learned that it is extremely difficult to reach all interested people. Every share, line and repost on your social channels helps a lot, even if you decide not to donate!
Thanks so much!
Thomas Biskup
ADOM Creator & Maintainer
P.S.: We haven't stopped on working on ADOM due to the Kickstarter - the next ADOM release will happen before the end of the Kickstarter.
ADOM 3.3.2 released to Steam
Ho ho ho!
Shortly before Christmas we decided to release ADOM 3.3.2 to Steam.
This celebrates our 100th ADOM release (in 27 years) - a kind of special moment. Nonetheless ADOM 3.3.2 mostly is a bug fix release again improving the stability, performance and usability of ADOM.
We are proud to announce the release of ADOM 3.3.1 fixing some important bugs. Please read our announcement closely if you are a MacOS Mojave user as there is a problem with Mojave that we currently can't quite fix (waiting for another library). There is an easy workaround though.
After a longer pause we are proud to announce the release of ADOM 3.3.0 as a Steam beta version. You can find all the details about the release in this blog post:
To activate the beta follow these instructions: https://www.ancientdomainsofmystery.com/p/adom-beta-steam.html
The biggest new feature is the "floating text" UI enhancement. Important messages now pop up in shortened form over the PC and float upwards (e.g. damage, poisoning, critical hits, items found and many more). This really adds a whole new level of comfort to the game as the text messages become far less important and you are much less likely to miss something important.
Besides this there are some critical bug fixes (related to multi-turn actions, the volcano quest), another round of buffing for boss monsters and dozens of minor bug fixes and enhancements.
Please test the beta and let us know what you think as we want to proceed to a general release as soon as possible.
Bug reports and requests for enhancement should be submitted at https://www.adom.de/bugs as usual.
And now enjoy playing this new release!
Thomas Biskuo & Team ADOM
ADOM 3.2.2 released to Steam (the GDPR release)
Hi everyone!
After we skipped the announcement for ADOM 3.2.1 (because it contained only cosmetical bug fixes) we just released ADOM 3.2.2 as the latest public version.
ADOM 3.2.x thus leaves the beta status and we hereby declare it stable.
ADOM 3.2.2 again doesn't offer any major content updates - but we had to adjust it to the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which takes full effect on the 25th of May. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation for the dirty details.
It took us lots of effort to take everything into account and your data won't be any safer despite all the work because we always cared for your data and didn't abuse it in any evil way. But now there's a lot more documentation and legal text.
The most important game-related change is that - if you registered for our global highscore server at http://www.rogueleague.org (which we highly recommend and which soon will be getting a boost) - you will once more have to read and accept the terms of use.
You also can choose to decline them but the you no longer will be allowed to upload your highscores to the global highscore.
The release cycle for this release has been filled with extremely boring and brain-numbing work because GDPR - despite its good intentions - is a nightmare of cluttered, chaotic and not very well-thought out bureacratic heap of regulation. But so be it. We now are compliant and finally can move forward creating real value.
Unless the next stupid EU regulation destroys productivity.
As you can see I am a bit pissed off about this monstrosity.
Please continue enjoying ADOM and sorry once more for not having new content to offer - we spent so many hours on this abomination that there was no room for content.
The next release will be much better in that respect - promise!
The update will be running automatically and if you still are running on the beta program, here you can find the instructions on how to turn off beta: https://www.ancientdomainsofmystery.com/p/adom-beta-steam.html
Kind regards
Thomas & Team ADOM
ADOM 3.2.0 released as a Steam beta (individualized PC sprites)
Hi everyone!
We are proud to announce the release of ADOM 3.2.0 (release 95) as a Steam beta version. You can read the details in this blog post (as well as the instructions on how to activate it): http://www.ancientdomainsofmystery.com/2018/05/adom-320-released-as-steam-beta.html
The major new feature is a high individualization level for the PC sprite depicting hair color, weapons, armor, etc. There is still a ton of detail we are going to add over time but we highly enjoy this feature already now :-)
Please try it and let us know what you think. Bug reports as usually perferrably bia http://www.adom.de/bugs
And now have fun playing!
Thomas Biskup & Team ADOM
