Tokyo, May 17 2012. To celebrate today’s 11-year anniversary of Age of Conquest, the game will be 50% off in Desura till the end of the week!
Please also join our May of Conquest ONLINE tournaments (you need to download the multiplayer version from our website). The tournaments are free to join and feature a variety of prizes.Visit AgeOfConquest.com for details.
Age of Conquest is a Risk-like turn-based strategy game with players from all over the world. Playable on maps such as Europe, Asia, the Americas, the World, fantasy maps and many more! The game is available for all major operating systems including Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Android and iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad).
Age of Conquest started 11 years ago on May 17, 2001 and has come a long way since. To celebrate the anniversary, May of Conquest was created which is a series of tournaments allowing players to compete for various prizes. The tournaments will be starting April 29, and before long we will announce the 34 happy winners! Let’s look at some last minute statistics…
Most amount of players in one tournament: 43 in the 1st May Day Tournament
Least amount of players in one tournament: Tied at 10 in the 2nd Eastern Blitz Tournament and 2nd Western Blitz Tournament
Average amount of participants in each tournament: 19
Map most being played on: tied between World Map, Europe, and North America maps
Best prize (based solely on my opinion): A Stein (mug) of course!
There is still time to join! Whether you are a veteran or a new player, we urge you to join and fight to claim your prize. The tournaments are free to join, so you have nothing to lose but all to gain.
We give thanks again to our organizers, King_HowardII, fodder, and ImLagging. Also to our sponsors, Droid Review Central, Droid Gamers, ImLagging, Mercer, KievRus, KingHowardII, and the Kingslayers Clan.
Nick & me just spent a few hours alpha-testing the new multiplayer port for Tropical Stormfront. We have fixed all the bugs, so it’s running all smoothly over both LAN and internet. Nick beat me a few times, so it wasn’t going so well for me in that sense
Next on the list is a beta-test 3 vs. 3 or even 4 vs. 4 (2 teams). Platforms: PC, Mac, Linux & Android. Open dates are next week Tuesday-Thursday, March 27.-29., from 09:00-17:00 (1h) next week. We will conduct a conference call via Skype (voice) while we play. I’ll host the Skype call. Someone in the group will host the game. Please enter your availability in the Doodle Poll and email me at contact [at] noblemaster.com to participate. I’ll send the download link & Skype call information.
Age of Conquest is a Risk-like turn-based strategy game that players from all over the world compete in. Playable on various maps including Europe, Asia, North America, even The World! The game is available for all major operating systems including Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Android and iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad).
Age of Conquest started many years ago and has come a long way. To celebrate each year, May of Conquest has been created which is a series of tournaments allowing players to compete for various prizes. With our final sponsors added, the tournament is ready to commence. But we are a long way from finding out our many victors. We have a grand total of 33 tournaments and prizes ranging from extended account membership to your very own Noble Master Games apparel and more. The tournaments are free to join. The tournaments start April 29.
There are many people to thank, let’s start with those who set it up. KingHowardII (aka KH), fodder, and ImLagging all worked on defining and setting up the entire festival. Over the course of several months they discussed every aspect in how things should be run, and the final result is excellent.
We also like to Thank our Sponsors
Age of Conquest has become widely popular on Android devices. Droid Gamers and Droid Review Central have each sponsored a 6 month extended membership tournament. We are happy to have them on board!
Droid Gamers
Droid Review Central
But we also have some players who have sponsored tournaments. ImLagging introduced me to Age of Conquest long ago! Mercer is a well-known and long time player of Age of Conquest. KievRus, honorable and fierce player. KingHoward has been active and helpful in the community for many years.
KingSlayers Clan has many strong and capable players in it’s ranks. Also of course, our very own Noble Master Games!
King Slayers
Noble Master Games
Don’t forget, the tournaments are absolutely free to join, so it is a good opportunity to gain a membership upgrade. Don’t want to join every tournament? Unsure which tournaments give which prizes? Check out the full details here http://www.ageofconquest.com/festival.html
Noble Master Games Releases Real-Time Strategy Game “Tropical Stormfront” for PC, Macintosh and Linux.
Tokyo, Japan – March 6, 2012 — Noble Master Games releases their strategy game title “Tropical Stormfront” for PC, Macintosh and Linux computers. The game is a real-time strategy (RTS) similar to the classic “Command & Conquer”, and modern warfare played out over lush tropical archipelagos. The game includes 25 pre-defined campaign missions as well as unlimited randomly generated skirmish scenarios with a multitude of game options.
Tropical Stormfront features various game play modes including Survival, Elimination, Capture the Flag, Hold the flag, Defend, and Capture the Enemy General. The battles are fought over land, sea and air. The maps and storyline are based on real world locations including Hawaii, Fiji, Midway, the Philippines, the Falkland Islands, Taiwan and China to name a few.
Features included are:
25 Campaign Missions
Unlimited Skirmish Games (Random Setup)
Challenging AI with 4 difficulty settings
Ground units: Battle Tank, Missile Tank, Artillery, General/Commando Unit
Air units: Fighter Plane, Apache Helicopter, Airship
Nations Included: USA, England, Russia, China, Japan, India and Brazil
Maps based on real-world locations in the Pacific.
Team-Play (join forces with AI controlled support)
Fog of War/Exploration Fog
High Score and Playing Statistics
Engaging Music and Sound Effects
“The dev team behind Tropical Stormfront is a truly global affair, with contributors from Tokyo, London, Ohio, Boston, Cyprus, Korea, Honolulu and Mongolia!” said Christoph Aschwanden, owner of Noble Master Games. “The whole team is looking forward to the release after a year of development”.
Tropical Stormfront is available via Desura and GamersGate in the English, Japanese and Korean language. The game is priced at USD 19.99 (EUR 14.99, AUD 18.99, GBP 12.99). A free demo version is available for try out before purchase. For additional information on “Tropical Stormfront” such as screenshots, promo graphics, trailer videos and review copy contact Christoph Aschwanden. Also download our press kit with logos, screenshots, box shots, promo graphics and official game description.
Noble Master Games is a professionally established indie company to serve as a resource for the gaming community at large. Our focus lies on developing and publishing real-time and turn-based strategy games. We have been creating games for PC, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS and Atari since 1988.
Here is a little goodie for all you Age of Conquest enthusiasts out there. I recorded my last turn (18) for a game I am playing on the big map of Europe. Although I am the developer, unfortunately I didn’t have any cheat codes I could use to improve my situation in the game (at least I can’t tell in the video)¹.
¹ no worries, there are no cheat codes in the ONLINE version :p
To all budding artists out there: Do you fancy seeing your design brought to life, ingame?
Desert StormFront production is in full swing now, and to celebrate, NobleMaster is offering the winner the chance to see their own design created and featured in the game!
The sequel has shifted location from dense jungle and scattered archipelagos to the troubled Middle East. The tropical oasis replaced by the harsh barren deserts and wartorn townships, caught in the middle of the conflict.
Desert StormFront township
We’re asking you to design your own civilian building – it could be part of a township, a fortified structure or even a religious building. The lucky winner will have their design modelled and rendered and put into the game, just like the images below. Not only that, you’ll get to see your name in the credits too!
Desert StormFront buildings
Images can be handdrawn or created on the computer. And even created in isometric like these buildings!
Please send your images to nick@noblemaster.com. The closing date for this competition is March 31st.
The Humvee makes a return in Desert StormFront. We realised the Humvee unit did not play a large enough role in the original game, so decided to make the Humvee unit have the capability of capturing bases. We hope this will refine the gameplay – simply throwing a huge army of tanks at a base is no longer enough to capture it.
We went through a variety of different bodytypes before settling on this one and adding new details like bullbars and mirrors.
The Humvee has also been upgraded with a mounted 50cal machine gun, giving it more firepower and enabling it to become a fast attack vehicle. I was personally very happy about this as it was my favourite unit, visually!
Like all the models in the game, they are designed to work well at small scale – the lines features are simplified and overscaled to make them more visible, almost toylike.
Here’s the new Artillery unit. We decided to update the old Artillery vehicle as although based on some existing militery hardware, it looked slightly too much like some kind of medieval cannon. Not such a bad thing, but maybe out of place! After some research we choose to base the model on the M142 High Mobility Artillery rocket system, or HIMARS for those without the time to write much.
Hopefully the artillery will provide a more substantial role in the sequel, I felt it was pretty underused in the original.
Age of Conquest’s May of Conquest is well under way and players can join via the Tournament page in-game. Free to join whether you have a paid account or a free trial account means it could be your chance to win some cool prizes or a membership upgrade. Detailed information can be found on the official page here. Many thanks goes to King_Howard, fodder, and ImLagging who have been organizing it.
Also coming up is the Age of Conquest League. Player realRiff expressed interest in organizing it, and has been working hard doing so. Also helping are fodder and King_Howard, providing help to realRiff where they can. It has been a while since AoC last had a league, but this one definitely looks promising. There will be three categories, 1 vs 1, 2 vs 2, and 4 vs 4. Players will be required to have a paid membership and to have played at least 15 rated games to join, but they may join all three categories if they wish to. To register, go to the official page here. You can also find any other details you may want or need to know there. Tapping into his creative side, realRiff created a promo video for the league which can give you a quick rundown of what is to come.
While I won’t be joining myself, I wish the best of luck to participants of both May of Conquest and the AoC League.
So here’s the first of the new units for Desert Stormfront. A new feature to DSF, this vehicle can, or hopefully will =), be able to repair friendly units in close proximity. It’s got a gun on top too, so will also be able to do some damage to the opposition at the same time
We went through several choices before deciding to base this vehicle on the Cougar, produced by Force Protection (great name!). The first version I modelled was the impressive Cougar HE, a 6 wheeled beast, but during the creation progress it became clear the vehicle was so long it’d have to be pretty small to fit inside the isometric floor tiles. So I cut the middle out and welded the back end on in true chopshop style!
OK, starting today I have added two new authors to the blog! Please welcome Nick Lee and Travis Bowling. Let me introduce the two of them.
Nick Lee is a highly skilled game artist, currently located in London, working on titles such as Lego Knight’s Kingdom, Star Wars: Jedi Knights, Harry Potter, Sims Bustin Out, Jurassic Park, 1945, Rainbow Islands, Sims2, JLH: The Flash, Fast&Furious, Metal Slug, Age of Empires 3, Transformers:G1 Awakening, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and Rockmania.
Travis Bowling, from Ohio, is a game enthusiast, mission and map designer and long-term player of Age of Conquest. He is the current administrator for Age of Conquest as well as the official game forums. He has created some of the maps for Age of Conquest as well as all the missions for Tropical Stormfront.
The three of us are working on the next installment of Tropical Stormfront, i.e. Desert Stormfront. We will definitely talk about Desert Stormfront, of course Age of Conquest, plus anything else related to games.
Age of Conquest for Android has received 3rd placein the 2011 Best App Ever Awards in the Board Game category. We have been beaten by Quell (1st place) and Carcassone (2nd place). Our congratulations to the winner!
