Progress report on ADOM II 0.2.7

The next release is near. I have two minor bugs left that I'd like to investigate and I need a couple of hours of testing, but so far things look very well. I hope to release 0.2.7 on either Friday (yeah, today, German time) or on Saturday. Wish me luck while testing - 0.2.7 should be a very nice release.
0.2.7 will not yet have an installer based setup as that would take another day or three and I'd prefer to release a new version as many many more bugs have been fixed and I hope to stabilize the 0.2.x line.

That's my prerequisite for starting development on 0.3.x and for now the major features planned for 0.3.0 are the following ones:

• missile combat
• many new items: missile weapons, missiles and thrown items
• monsters using missiles
• the new layout for the main screen and the splash screen (including the logo from the ADOM II design competition - the final version is gorgeous)
• soundtrack support including the sounds done by Oneiros Dieguez
• an installer based setup using the Bitrock Installbuilder (no more Java Web Start with all its ugly bugs)
• a faster startup time
• Java 7 as the base line for development

Thus I'd expect to need at least four weeks for ADOM II 0.3.0, despite "release early, release often" ;-)