Heropath is a Heroic Strategy-Adventure game, an obscure sub-genre of Video Games. The Strategy-Adventure genre is unique, innovative, and contains some lost design and game mechanics that I think are wonderful and worth mimicking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Strategy is one of the most popular video game genres and entails thinking, planning, and executing with your available in-game resources. Adventure is a genre that rarely stands on its own and usually is blended into Action and Role-Playing games via in-game world exploration. Being a Strategy-Adventure game, Heropath would contain both strategic planning meshed with in-game world exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I would like to expand the definition of Adventure to be more than visiting different places in-game. In addition to different places, I’d like to also explore different game mechanics in-game. I loved staged poly-mechanic games like Beach Head<\/a> , Beach Head II<\/a> , Raid Over Moscow<\/a>, and Spore<\/a> that linked diverse mini-games through in-game narrative. While nobody called such games Adventure games, I think exploration can be expanded to include a series of narrative-linked game mechanics. Heropath will contain both exploration of in-game worlds and poly-mechanic stages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So I’ve defined Strategy-Adventure but what do these two mean when you combine them with ‘Heroic’? To be a heroic game, the game must be played through an in-game avatar. Heropath will be a Strategy-Adventure game played from the perspective of your in-game avatar, thus adopting the Heroic Strategy-Adventure definition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The game that best represents Heroic Strategy-Adventure is Cryo’s Dune<\/a>. That game’s perspective was focused through your role as Paul Atriedes but game mechanic expansion such as troop command and terraforming were only accessed as Paul discovered them in-game. Dune was one of best narratively designed<\/a> video games ever and I aim to have Heropath duplicate its inspired design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Heropath is a Heroic Strategy-Adventure game, an obscure sub-genre of Video Games. The Strategy-Adventure genre is unique, innovative, and contains some lost design and game mechanics that I think are wonderful and worth mimicking. Strategy is one of the most popular video game genres and entails thinking, planning, and executing with your available in-game resources. … Continue reading “What is a Heroic Strategy-Adventure?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[35,13],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-definitions","tag-standing-on-the-shoulders-of-giants","tag-video-game-definitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heropath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}