Expeditions: Conquistador
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| Original title | Expeditions: Conquistador | ||
| Studio | Logic Artists | ||
| Publisher | bitcomposer entertainment | ||
| Senior Developer | Jonas Wæver | ||
| composer | Leonardo Badinella | ||
| Erstveröffent- lichung |
May 30, 2013 | ||
| platform | Microsoft Windows , macOS , Linux | ||
| Game engine | Unity | ||
| genre | Strategy RPG | ||
| Subject | Age of Discovery | ||
| Game mode | Single player | ||
| control | Computer keyboard , mouse | ||
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| medium | digital distribution , download | ||
| language |
English , Spanish , Italian , German and Russian (both surface and subtitle only) |
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| Current version | 1.4 | ||
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Expeditions: Conquistador is a turn-based strategy role-playing game that was developed by the Danish developer studio Logic Artists and digitally published worldwide by bitComposer for Windows , macOS and Linux on May 30, 2013 . The player takes on the role of a Spanish conquistador on an expedition to Hispaniola and Mexico between 1518 and 1520 . The game includes resource management, a branching storyline and elements of interactive fiction . Expeditions: Conquistador was partially financed by the crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.com .
Game mechanics
Expeditions: Conquistador is set during the Age of Discovery . The player's goal is to conduct an expedition to Hispaniola and Mexico with the hope of gold and influence while building and maintaining a strong expedition group. During the expedition, the fate of the countries explored can be determined, which allows a turn away from real historical events.
The player character himself does not take part in combat and has five skill categories: tactics, diplomacy, healing, hunting and leadership. These statistics are determined during character creation and cannot increase during the course of the game, although in-game events and bonuses from expedition members can influence them. The skill points allow different dialogue options, influence different aspects of resource management and allow the game to change the starting conditions before battles. At the beginning of the game, the expedition group must be composed of predefined characters. These include five Spanish character classes , each of which corresponds to a typical role-playing archetype: soldier ( tank ), scout ( damage dealer ), hunter (ranged), doctor ( healer ) and scholar ( supporter ). In addition to the five Spanish classes, the game has six native classes that can be recruited during the game. All character classes have differently pronounced skill categories and each character has special properties. The expedition group has a supply of experience points to improve the skills of the different characters and to unlock new features.
The game contains text and dialogue-controlled quests with branching action paths . The battles are turn-based and take place on a hexagonal grid . Usually up to six group members of the expedition can be selected for a fight.
development
The game was developed by the Danish studio Logic Artists in Copenhagen . The team included around eight to ten full-time developers as well as other freelancers and interns. Expeditions: Conquistador is based on a university project that had the goal of creating a demo for a target group that only includes one person. The XNA demo took three weeks, was turn-based and in 2D. The Windows Phone 7 game Conquistador was developed over two months from the demo . Expeditions: Conquistador was developed from scratch as a turn-based 3D strategy role-playing game from April 2012. The German publisher bitComposer published the game digitally on May 30, 2013. In October of the same year, a DVD version for Windows followed by F + F Distribution.
According to the developer, Jon Van Caneghem's King’s Bounty (1990) was the biggest influence on the structure of the game. The fights are inspired by the Heroes of Might and Magic series (since 1995), the first two Fallout parts (1997, 1998) and Dungeons & Dragons , while the troop management borrows from Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six (since 1998 ) and X-COM (since 1994).
The aim of the development was to put exploration at the center of the game mechanics and the plot. They found the Age of Discovery to be the most suitable for this, as the colonization of America by Spain was little or hardly used in computer games and the historical period was rich in conflict and narrative potential. They opted for the Spanish perspective because, in their eyes, it was more exciting, philosophically more complex and fresher than the English perspective.
In August and September 2012, Logic Artists ran a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.com to fund part of the production costs. The project set a target of $ 70,000 and ended up receiving $ 77,247.
reception
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Expeditions: Conquistador received mostly positive reviews. In the rating aggregator Metacritic , the game has a Metascore of 77/100, based on 22 reviews. At GameRankings , the game has a rating of 81.25% based on eight reviews.
Patrick Hancock from Destructoid thought the game was written as "excellent", just like the combat system, but criticized the difficulty level. Benjamin Schmädig from 4Players praised the game's “believable dynamic”, which comes to the fore in many places. However, he criticized the decisions that did not go far enough and the fights that were too easy. Frank Erik Walter from Eurogamer was also positively impressed by Expeditions: Conquistador , in particular by the "[charming] mixture of interesting plot, exploring the world map, managing [the] people in the camp and, last but not least, [the] strategy part."
successor
In May 2015 Logic Artists announced the development of the successor Expeditions: Viking . The game, which deals with the Viking invasion of the British Isles in the 8th century ( Viking Age ), was released for Windows on April 27, 2017.
Web links
- Official website (English)
- Expeditions: Conquistador at MobyGames (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Process interview, Expeditions: Conquistador. (No longer available online.) In: Eye for Games. June 19, 2013, archived from the original on February 4, 2014 ; accessed on April 27, 2017 (English).
- ↑ a b Article: Expeditions: Conquistador - Interview with the developers. (No longer available online.) In: Gamers.de. Jink GmbH, January 28, 2013, p. 7 , archived from the original on February 4, 2014 ; accessed on April 27, 2017 (English).
- ↑ a b c d e Expeditions: Conquistador Interview. In: RPG Codex. August 24, 2012, accessed April 27, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Patrick Hancock: Review: Expeditions: Conquistador. In: Destructoid. June 9, 2013, accessed April 27, 2017 .
- ^ Peter Parrish: Expeditions: Conquistador Review. In: PC Invasion. June 3, 2013, accessed April 27, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Article: Expeditions: Conquistador - Interview with the developers. (No longer available online.) In: Gamers.de. Jink GmbH, January 28, 2013, p. 8 , archived from the original on February 4, 2014 ; accessed on April 27, 2017 (English).
- ↑ Conquer the New World with Expeditions Conquistador. In: bit-composer.com. BitComposer Interactive , May 30, 2013, accessed April 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Markus Schaffarz: Thunder Wolves and Expeditions: Conquistador now also available in stores! In: GamesUnit.de. October 3, 2013, accessed April 27, 2017 .
- ^ Expeditions: Conquistador by Logic Artists. Kickstarter.com , accessed April 27, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Expeditions: Conquistador for PC. In: GameRankings . CBS Interactive , accessed April 27, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Expeditions: Conquistador for PC Reviews. In: Metacritic . CBS Interactive , accessed April 27, 2017 .
- ^ A b Benjamin Schmädig: Test: Expeditions: Conquistador. In: 4Players . Computec Media Group , June 21, 2013, accessed April 27, 2017 .
- ^ A b Frank Erik Walter: Test: Expeditions: Conquistador. In: Eurogamer . Gamer Network, June 6, 2013, accessed April 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Stefan Weiß: Expeditions: Conquistador in the test: Spanish conquest with depth. In: PC Games . Computec Media Group , July 4, 2013, accessed April 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Alice O'Connor: Conquist No More - Expeditions: Viking Announced. In: Rock, Paper, Shotgun . Rock Paper Shotgun Ltd., May 20, 2015, accessed April 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Expeditions: Viking - Release on April 27th, predecessor can be played for free on the weekend. In: PC Games . Computec Media Group , April 20, 2017, accessed April 27, 2017 .