How is Hero Mages like a board game?
Hero Mages was originally designed as a strategy board game that used an intricate dungeon as the board, miniature figurines for characters, cards for spells, and a set of twenty-sided dice for calculating combat results. Due to the high costs of the game’s intricate components, we coded all of the game mechanics into Flash so we could distribute the game to a much wider audience: the online community! Though we’ve evolved the rules of the game since its initial conception and outfitted it with a modern computer interface, the feel of the classic board game remains. Players still move miniatures (except they’re animated units now!), still draw cards, and still roll dice to calculate all combat results. You can even opt to enable seeing your dice roll within the game! The particularly unique advantage of the board game mechanics is that players can visually see and comprehend the precise impact of their character’s abilities. In typical computer strategy games, it can be difficult to un
