Stormbringer
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You may remember, almost exactly a year ago, I announced I was working on a project to make a new version of Advanced HeroQuest themed around Jordan Mechner's 1989 classic video game, Prince of Persia.
Well, I got a little distracted with a combination of real life and other ideas, and it fell off my immediate to-do list. However, work is going to resume shortly.
But, now I've thought of yet another idea for a new version of Advanced HeroQuest!
This time it's going to be a cross between:
and
and
I am going to call it:
ADVANCED HEROQUEST: INDIANA JONES AND THE CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN
Sounds crazy? Yes it is!
It's inspired by two factors:
1. The 1989 Lucasfilm Games title Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure has a section in it where Indy explores the inside of Castle Brunwald, in search of his father:
Most of this section is viewed as a top-down "dungeon-crawl" with corridors, rooms, doors, stairs and patrolling guards...
...which Indy frequently encounters, and gets into a fist-fight with...
2. Wolfenstein 3D, from id Software (1992) is basically a first-person "dungeon-crawl", where the hero, BJ Blazkowics, stalks the corridors of Castle Wolfenstein, opening doors, shooting Nazis and picking up stolen treasure:
It struck me that, with only the slightest bit of tweaking, one could turn Advanced HeroQuest into a board game version of Wolfenstein/Last Crusade, where Jones and Blazkowics team up and go on missions together, crawling through the corridors of Castle Wolfenstein, fighting Nazis and searching for treasure!
For the dungeon tiles I will once again be using Zhu Industries' Planstrom set:
(laser-printed by Warbases)
...and for miniatures I will use Bob Murch's Pulp Figures range:
and of course, the heroes...
Indy bottom-left (obviously). The shirtless chap at the bottom-centre will be BJ Blaskowics, as he's been depicted as shirtless in the cover art.
Updates to follow in the coming weeks...
Well, I got a little distracted with a combination of real life and other ideas, and it fell off my immediate to-do list. However, work is going to resume shortly.
But, now I've thought of yet another idea for a new version of Advanced HeroQuest!
This time it's going to be a cross between:
and
and
I am going to call it:
ADVANCED HEROQUEST: INDIANA JONES AND THE CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN
Sounds crazy? Yes it is!
It's inspired by two factors:
1. The 1989 Lucasfilm Games title Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure has a section in it where Indy explores the inside of Castle Brunwald, in search of his father:
Most of this section is viewed as a top-down "dungeon-crawl" with corridors, rooms, doors, stairs and patrolling guards...
...which Indy frequently encounters, and gets into a fist-fight with...
2. Wolfenstein 3D, from id Software (1992) is basically a first-person "dungeon-crawl", where the hero, BJ Blazkowics, stalks the corridors of Castle Wolfenstein, opening doors, shooting Nazis and picking up stolen treasure:
It struck me that, with only the slightest bit of tweaking, one could turn Advanced HeroQuest into a board game version of Wolfenstein/Last Crusade, where Jones and Blazkowics team up and go on missions together, crawling through the corridors of Castle Wolfenstein, fighting Nazis and searching for treasure!
For the dungeon tiles I will once again be using Zhu Industries' Planstrom set:
(laser-printed by Warbases)
...and for miniatures I will use Bob Murch's Pulp Figures range:
and of course, the heroes...
Indy bottom-left (obviously). The shirtless chap at the bottom-centre will be BJ Blaskowics, as he's been depicted as shirtless in the cover art.
Updates to follow in the coming weeks...