http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2128128298/expeditions-conquistador

Not sure how many of you guys are away of this Kickstarter, the page has two videos, their Kickstarter pitch and a trailer of the game, both of which contain gameplay footage. I've been asking the guy on Kickstarter questions about the game, and I've discovered that it's actually a lot like Heroes of Might and Magic but with only a fraction of the strategy angle, though it has one big world-map (like a traditional RPG) and not the smaller "mission" maps like in HoMM and Disciples, the map is divided into hundreds of hex-grids, you the player are represented as a Conquistador riding a horse, which is actually your party, and when you attack a hex-tile with an enemy target on it, it goes to a tactical battle grid showing your entire party and the enemy.

Apart from that it's a traditional RPG, quests and branching dialogue, but apparently quests aren't just about experience, whether you have failure or success in a quest changes something in another part of the map.

I'm honestly quite excited and hope it makes it, the quality looks of the standard of Dead State, another turn-based RPG that was on KS.

Thoughts?

It's definitely worth adding that this Jonas Weaver fellow is the mastermind behind The Nameless Mod for Deus Ex, which you should play now because it's incredible.

If that's the level of quality we can expect from this project, then I'm shivering in anticipation. In a good way.

Quite fun to find the game you're working on pop up in random places :)

We actually have a few other people who worked on TNM on board, namely Jason Cooke and Leonardo Badinella, who are doing the animations and music respectively.

Glad to hear people are excited about this! And thanks for helping spread the word, I really appreciate it (And so does the team). :)

Just saw this mentioned on another site, did a search here, and came up with this thread. Bumping just to say this looks pretty cool and maybe bring it to the attention of others as well.

Saw this one, caught my eye as it hits a lot of my interests, but I'm not sure I'll support it. I'm just getting really tired of kickstarter, or rather, the way creators are setting up their kickstarters with stretch goals and physical incentives before meeting the funding goal. The kickstarter exclusive content especially bothers me, and that they've preemptively setup a FAQ answer to dismiss complaints about it bothers me even more. Basically, they know people have issues with it, but they're doing it anyway because "it’s only fair that you have something to show for your faith in us"?! Uh, yeah, that's supposed to be the game itself. The Aztec map and diary of the conquistador with the in-game quest tie-in also sounds cool, but for some reason is exclusive to $250 contributors, not the quest itself, anyone can do the quest, it's just the map and story that are exclusive, so there's really no reason to not offer pdf versions of them for the lower tiers and digital only backers as well. Game looks and sounds pretty good though, so good luck to them.

That's a good idea. I'll pass it on to the team, see if we can't make that happen :)