Age of Heroes: Army of Darkness

Age of Heroes is a fantasy game world populated with brave dwarfs and strong orcs, wise elves and courageous people, located at your palm as a strategic role-playing game for mobile phones.





What is Age of Heroes and what is making this project different from the other fantasy role-playing games for mobile phones:
Age of Heroes is a large world populated with different races; there are stories about heroes living in different historical periods: from the arrival of elves to the domination of people. There are magic itself as well as magic artefacts, secret skills and brave warriors in this world.

The world of Age of Heroes exceeds the limits of a single mobile game, it is a series of independent games united by common subject. As one series follows another, the world is being filled up with new features and develops its unique history. Besides, the project has its own web site http://quest.qplaze.com, where you can find more knowledge about every race settled in this world, about artefacts and magic, about secrets of strategy and tactics. You can communicate with other gamers at the forum or join the developers team by helping them with ideas and recommendations, advancing remarks and wishes for future versions.

Game
Every series of the game is an independent story with its own beginning and epilogue which the gamer will have to get acquainted with. The game took much after the role-playing games, it has magic, artefacts and skills attributed to the hero; the gamer will have to fulfil different tasks, being rewarded with bonuses while going on further to the final. Difference from the role-playing game begins from the specificity of the battling. As far as the mobile phone is not powerful enough to perform the real time battle, the developers decided to introduce a tactic element into the battle scheme. The battle goes on in the single-step mode with creatures moving and attacking in turn, one after another.

Such an approach helped to find room for the big and interesting game in the small device. For example, the first series of the Age of Heroes – Army of Darkness – includes more than 9 000 cells on the map, 10 different creatures, as well as magic, artefacts, texts of quests and captions, description of all the creatures and things. Surely, there is a core itself, a scalable game engine. As it was mentioned above, the game is being developed from series to series, and, in accordance with that, the engine will be permanently elaborated and provided with new possibilities and functions.

While playing the first version, a gamer will already have possibility to hire and sell the army, to acquire magic rolls and artefacts, to fulfil tasks rewarded with bonuses, move over the map and fight in the single-step mode with other creatures, have dialogues with game characters to get advices or valuable information. A mini-map of the world is available for a gamer. In the powerful models, the map is more diverse, and all the magic, artefacts and creatures are completely animated.

Compatibility and localization
It is interesting that the game map is always the same and is independent on the phone model, beginning from relatively simple Samsung C100 phone and up to powerful Sony Ericsson k700 or Nokia 60 series models. Differences in the plot are minimal as well. These results were achieved at the cost of abridgement of dialogues, sound and animation for minor models, but even for the simplest phone, the plot is not significantly different from the whole series. This provides simpler models with the full-value game-play and allows to evolve the game from series to series without binding the gamer to the specific model. On the contrary, while getting a more powerful model of the phone, the gamer will enjoy the same plot but in more beautiful shell. At present, the game supports 170 popular phone models.

Developers have already issued the Russian and the English version. Now it is planned to localize the game, as well as the site, in French, German, Spain and Italian in the nearest future.

Serial concept
In spite of the very economical approach, the whole world of Age of Heroes could not find room in the single game midlet, so there are specific races and creatures, specific artefacts and magic for every series. For instance, there are 10 different creatures with distinct features in the first Army of Darkness game, 5 creatures for each one of the races. There are two races in the first game, the dead and the people. Forest and village landscapes prevail in the first series. The next series will be designed more in stone, because the action will transfer to the dwarfs' caverns. There will be three races, although the number of creatures will remain of 10 – 11 different kinds all the same.

From series to series, the plot, landscape, creatures, magic and artefacts change, and the scheme of battling and development of skills improves. Series are grouped in the seasons containing five series each. Every season relates to the certain period of the game world and to the certain common line of the season.

To the fans
Specially for the fans of the game, there are free melodies from the Age of Heroes game, screens for the majority of up-to-date phones and desktop wallpapers on the site. Besides that, developers are always glad to receive your letters, stories, pictures concerning the Age of Heroes, and will be pleased to publish them on the site http://quest.qplaze.com

All rights are reserved and belong to the Qplaze TM. The Russian Mobile Entertainment company is an official publisher in the CIS and other countries.

You can purchase this game here: http://www.gamefun.ru/shop/product_info.php?products_id=55