Tuesday, August 21, 2012

ADOM crowd funding: Let's get over with it!

Ok, today so far has been a totally awesome day for the ADOM crowd funding campaign: We had a new record pledge level for recent weeks, there is a new audio demo by Lucas Dieguez and the stretch goals have been announced. Now I'd like to try to get over with it by passing the $48,000 goal for successful funding as soon as possible.

In order to try this we'll be now doing a kind of Dutch (reverse) auction (only kind of):
  • If the ADOM crowd funding campaign is successful within the next 24 hours (until 10:04am, August 22nd, GMT+1) I will add an extra special new boss monster with a special new map, 2 new artifacts, 4 new minion monsters for said boss and 16 new items that only will be recoverable on said special level.
  • If the ADOM crowd funding campaign is successful between 10:05am, August 22nd, GMT+1 and 10:05am, August 23rd, GMT+1, one new artifact on a special new map, 2 new minion monsters and 8 new items recoverable only on that map will be added. And a note somewhere on that map saying "Away for treasure hunting. Will be back soon." (to explain the missing boss monster).
  • If the ADOM crowd funding campaign is successful between 10:05am, August 23nd, GMT+1 and 10:05am, August 24th, GMT+1, 1 new minion monster and 4 new items recoverable only on that map will be added. And a note somewhere on that map saying "Gone for artifact creation."
  • If the ADOM crowd funding campaign is successful between 10:05am, August 24th, GMT+1 and 23:59pm, August 24th, GMT+1, 1 new minion monster and 1 new item will be added as a wilderness encounter.
So if you have been waiting to donate, do it now - it will get you extra free content :-)

And remember that the power pledge drive: artifacts also still is running!

9 comments:

  1. Just wanted to say congratulations on raising over $10,000 in the past week! That's a pretty strong rate, and you haven't even entered the last week of the campaign. (which should be your strongest, if statistics are worth anything) $60,000 may be feasible. :)

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  2. Woo, go ADOM go! You should get Krys to draw a pink @ sign with pom poms to cheer the campaign on ;)

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    1. ROTFL :-) Sadly he is pretty busy right now but I'll suggest it ;-)

      He drew an even more awesome strech goal image but I failed to provide the correct texts in time... *sigh*

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  3. An interesting approach to expediting the process---kudos on the novel notion.

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    1. Yeah, I've also been very impressed by several of the novel campaign ideas used. Thomas has clearly put some keen business acumen into this project. Other campaigners should take good note.

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  4. Quick question: I'm considering upping my pledge to get the ADOM lite RPG but I'm not clear on exactly what the game is. Can you make a quick post detailing how the game will play, maybe post a sample page or two?

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    1. It will be a 64 page pen & paper RPG. And no - I don't have any details yet. It will be a full-blown RPG trying to cover the topic scope of ADOM. Due to the limited number of pages it will have to be a pretty simple system. I haven't yet decided on any of the details but I'm not going to replicate any of detailed features of the computer game as I don't think that they'd translate too well to pen & paper.

      Some ancient ideas can be found here:

      As I have been writing on various RPG systems during the past ten years (e.g. http://www.hexerundhelden.net, http://www.gaiagamma.com and http://www.thefantasygame.org) I have a number of ideas I'd love to see in the RPG but it's much too early for details. Actually I initially never planned to define this kind of pledge level... it just seemed right at that point of the campaign ;-)

      But hey, that's pre-D&D3-time, so things will be changing.

      Once I had some color images from my initial attempt at the ADOM RPG up and running but after the hacking attack it seems that the images were lost. And they were full color as I wanted the real ADOM RPG to be a 128 page full color RPG, so they wouldn't quite apply.

      Here's a more traditional B&W layout that might be a kind of base inspiration for the ADOM Lite RPG and that I used for "The Fantasy Game": http://www.thefantasygame.org/2011/06/first-layout-impression-abilities.html

      But actually we'll have to see...

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  5. 9,5 hours and $1,113 to go.

    Is tonight the night?

    Will tomorrow morning start with the actual resurrection of ADOM?

    What a night...

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  6. We made it!

    In record time.

    The top bonus level has been added to the list of things for the new version!

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