The Heroes Round Table

It's not hinted; it's explicitly stated. If you kill Leanna in Chapter 8 instead of rescuing her or ignoring her, Xana will tell you she's the last Falcon.

The big failure mode of the King's Bounty games is that, as it goes on, you become too powerful for the enemies around you and stop needing to try, or you fail to become powerful enough, take heavy losses and run out of money, and need to start over. (I like the mini-campaigns in Crossworlds a lot f...

We spent a lot of hours last month making it possible to add new creatures without touching any code. That doesn't produce any flashy screenshots. But that let a team member have fun adding five new creatures over a couple days, which does. Introducing the harpy, bloodsucker, black knight, treant, a...

There were definitely some growing pains involved in going from 4 to 10 people in a bit over a week; it took a bit too long for the Game Creation Society to get our repository up. Most of the members have been chipping in a bit each week, which is the expected commitment. Just so no-one lynches me i...

As I've said XEL, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

XEL is completely right, but the Ironfists may have some secrets they're hiding. Hopefully it won't be too long before we release the first few missions and answer some questions....and create a lot more.

VARN is an artificial world. In some ways, no-one originated there.

Some of the aspects are still being finalized, so we won't be revealing the plot to people not interested in chipping in. That particular question has been debated heavily.

SirTometheus: Oh man, a community visitor! I'm not sure -- most of the games presented are the more finished ones from previous semesters. Whether we do or don't, you should definitely be able to track down a team member and get a private screening. :) XEL: We're not changing the backstory, but exte...

If we did that, they would stick out like a sore thumb.

Not a bad idea for prototyping though.

Thank you!

We can use all types of people. New team members are always welcome. It's just that, at the moment we could use a horde of artists, but only have one. Hopefully, in a month we'll need a horde of mapmakers and playtesters.

When Richard of Aria lost his hand in battle, the wizard Rothbard presented him a new one, one fueled by an internal lightning, with a mind of its own and the strength of a thousand men. On that day, he became Richard, King Ironfist. On that day, he condemned his family to centuries of betrayal and...

This isn't *really* AI, but Chain Lightning So, Chain Lightning hits a creature, and then moves on to the nearest creature which isn't immune. But how does it determine nearest? What measure of distance does it use? Pixels. It simply computes the Euclidean distance from the center pixel of one stack...

Two songs which I think are especially fitting for HoMM are "Welcome to Your Fantasy" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSLfie8ntk8) by Future World Music, and "Moonlight Armies" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qipcloNV4tE) by Two Steps from Hell. Both companies have huge volumes o...

There's a new Facebook game based on King's Bounty: The Legend called King's Bounty: Legions (http://apps.facebook.com/kingsbountylegions/), created by....Nival. I've just started playing it. So, far it seems to basically be the basic combat mechanics of King's Bounty (somewhat simplified), with the...

Thanks! I never noticed the book next to the lich. I've learned that it's just as possible for artists to be terrible designers as it is for programmers to be. And it seems this guy is merely a clever arguer. The ability to "tactics" - it's good or bad? This is very bad. Imagine what would...

I couldn't understand how to send this guy money, and I'd appreciate it if a Russian speaker could help me out; I'd really like to get in touch with this guy.

I have not found a clear statement of what it is. The best I found was this, at the end of a rant against "meat" units (units whose only purpose is to soak up damage). In summary, I hope that the findings of the above will now be able to make each one of you. Findings are clear as day: we ...

Look for board game clubs in your area. I belong to my university's board game club. Current students actually form a minority. A lot of the other regulars are alumni, but some have no affiliation with the school. I know there's also a group which meets every weekend at a cafe in New York to play bo...

General notes Rounding occurs in a lot of places, and I haven't really been tracking where. Also, note that the effects for Slow and Curse have negative heuristics, while the rest have nonnegative heuristics. However, the signs of all effect heuristics are often adjusted, so that e.g.: detrimental ...