-ADOM Deluxe will be a separate entity to ADOM itself though on parallel----pretty much the only differences will be the sorts of things he's already roughly outlined for ADOM II Deluxe, alongside things like the game actually being able to function via Steam/Desura clients and that sort of stuff. Not as dramatic a difference in terms of content as per how Epilogue provides excellent value for the free version and then heaps upon yet more for the commercial, but it is just a different way of going about it.
-The Deluxe version will be yet another free perk to all those who have donated at least $40 however you slice it to the IGG campaign---which will probably be the majority by the end of things if not already. That said.....there's been no indication as to what the actual cost for the eventual ADOM Deluxe will be on these services...
Some major pact pledging is happening, which in the time since it was posted it may well have now cleared past $70K considering the pacts currently known:
http://www.ancientdomainsofmystery.com/2012/08/adom-crowd-funding-final-race-towards.htmlWow, wow, wow. I'll need to recover for days from the excitement. The ADOM crowd funding campaign is entering the very final hours - 27 to go at the time of this writing.
We made it yet again.
Stretch goal #4: Steam (& co.) support has been unlocked!
And now more exciting things are happening... that might allow us to get to the next stretch goal #5 (achievements & highscore server at $70,000) and even towards the $75,000 (stretch goal #6: the highly elaborate and detailed volcano quest). The following facts will make the remaining 27 hours a hell of an exciting race towards the end of the campaign:
-Currently we are at $65,907, a mere $1,593 away from the magical $67,500. Andriy has put up a promise to donate another $2,500 if we make that margin so that he pushes us to the $70,000 stretch goal mark and will unlock stretch goal #5: achievements and the high score server. @Andriy: You'll get a very special extra in the game if we really manage that - promised! If we manage to pul this off I have promised to add an extra three mini quests to the game (one level maps with special challenges). So there's the possibility of getting a load of extras with $1,593 in pledges!
-Jeff Royle just took up Andriy's generous offer and (read comment #8 here) offered to chime in an additional $2,500 if we manage to get to $70,000 in this way and then up to $72,500 by community pledges (my interpretation - Jeff, please correct me if I'm wrong - again, you won't be held responsible for that ;-) ). He'll in that case put us at the $75,000 mark. @Jeff: As for Andriy - if that is to happen something truly special will be added in-game for you, too.
-Now that we have gotten to the $65,000 everyone who pledged at least $40 (no matter in what combination) will receive a free license for ADOM Deluxe!!! So far this leaves about 259 folks at the $10 and 426 people at the $25 level without a free license for ADOM Deluxe (the numbers are not exact as a number of them pledged more than once or upgraded behind the scenes but they are a good estimation). Now imagine this: If 259 people were to pledge an extra $30 (and you are not forced to upgrade to the RPG level if you don't want that) they'll get a free license and the roughly estimated $7,500 extra would put us even beyond stretch goal #6: The Rolf Quest (with the special pledges above added it)!!! And if the 426 people at the $25 level were to add another $15 (again without being required to buy the RPG) we'd have another $6,000 that might even unlock yet another two mega quests beyond the Rolf quest!!! How awesome is that? While I don't believe that this is very likely to happen it's totally amazing to see that there is a slim fighting chance to unlock stretch goals #6 and #7. Awesome, awesome, awesome.
I've already vowed to make the volcano quest very special - I'll now add that I'll make it a world shaking event if we get that far.
I'm not sure how I'm going to concentrate on real life today. All this is just remarkable beyond any means. Keep it up folks, you are truly
CORRECTION: As per Biskup's comment in Facebook:
No DLC. I have learnt my lessons in that regard ;-) And no micro transactions as far as I am concerned. Too complicated. Just a flat price for a feature set that doesn't concern hard core roguelike players. And no, it won't be a $40 price... more casual in the $5-$10 range. $40 is the level I set for this campaign where you get the free license _in addition_ to whatever else you get. Yet another bonus.
