BoA, its sequel and more...

[Ageod]

We are back to the office. The team is busy again with processing the orders received in the vacation period.

We have also signed quite a few distribution agreements those past last weeks for Birth of America which is going to go retail:

* The game will reach the shelves in North America by the end of this month, as well as in Russia and Eastern Europe.
* then the retail markets in Germany, Great Britain, Benelux, Spain and Scandinavia will be covered by our local partners as early as next September,
* and last but not least, France shall be supplied next October, as we are now closing our latest deal with a well-known distributor.

In addition, the game is already available in download sale through two of our renowned ESD partners, STEAM and PARADOX.

And of course you can still get it directly from us… !

Next: we have started since some weeks the development of our new (and next) game, heir of Birth of America, with a planned release end of next fall. We are also seriously involved in the development of two add-ons for our first game and we hope to have them available for our clients around Xmas… end of 2006 promises to be active at Ageod’s!

AGEOD team

---------------------------------------------------------------------

C’est la reprise. L’équipe est de nouveau active et les commandes récentes sont de nouveau livrées depuis notre réouverture.

Nous avons aussi concrétisé plusieurs accords de distribution ces dernières semaines pour Birth of America qui va être disponible dans le commerce :

* le jeu sera en vente au public dans les magasins d’Amérique du Nord à compter de la fin du mois, ainsi qu’en Russie et en Europe de l’Est.
* Les marchés de l’Allemagne, la Grande Bretagne, le Benelux, l’Espagne et la Scandinavie seront couverts à compter de septembre par nos partenaires distributeurs locaux,
* et enfin la France sera très probablement servie en octobre dans le cadre de notre dernier contrat en cours de discussion avec un distributeur connu.

Par ailleurs, le jeu est d'ors et déjà vendu en téléchargement par par deux partenaires de renom, STEAM et PARADOX.

Et bien entendu vous pouvez vous le procurer directement chez nous… !

A suivre : nous travaillons actuellement sur un nouveau jeu, héritier de Birth of America, qui sortira à la fin de l’automne prochain. On travaille aussi sur deux extensions pour notre premier jeu, en espérant pouvoir les proposer à nos clients à noël… la fin de l’année 2006 sera animée chez Ageod !

L'équipe d'AGEOD

[Wilhammer]

Rumor has it that your 'heir to Birth of America' coveres the American Civil War. Are you able to confirm?

[Pocus]

Thats not the ideas which are lacking. From Frederick the Great to a Napoleonic game, Civil War (why only the ACW is considered, there is a bunch of CW to modelize), the Sepoys revolt in India, Crimean War, 1870 war, Prussian unity, war in south americas (we now have a bunch of infos about them, and its darn interesting), etc.

You will know before 2007, this is all we can say.

[oi_you_nutter]

although i would love a BoA style game on some of the more obscure conflicts of the last 300 years, there has to be a commercial side to the decision on the subject BoA sequel.

i would guess ACW !
its a very popular conflict, especially in the USA which must be the largest single market for computers wargames... unless Pocus can correct me on the statistic.

if i had my choice: i would choose either the 30 Years War or the English Civil War. lots of period flavor and a great chance to see more excellant artwork from AGEOD

[Ayeshteni]

i would guess ACW !
its a very popular conflict, especially in the USA which must be the largest single market for computers wargames... unless Pocus can correct me on the statistic.

Hmm, it would be nice, but the problem would be scale. How do you represent the countless regiments? Battle of Gettysburg was huge!

Either one BoA regiment would have to equal one Brigade (at the very least) or the leaders command rattings would have to be increased and the stacks would be very unweildy.

But an ACW would be interesting.

I still would like to see a '45 game. Come on wee Charlie.

Ayeshteni

[oi_you_nutter]

a Napoleonic or ACW game would need a change of scale to Brigade or Division level ( at least)

and have larger regions, imagine the ACW map from the Mississippi to the East coast at the scale of BoA... it would be HUGE

a Jacobite game would be interesting, we can repeat Culloden again and again

i would love a ECW game covering all the conflicts in the British Isles in the 1640s + 1650s, it could cover the Glorious Revolution, Monmouth rebellion and the Jacabite rebellions as well

[PhilThib]

Woul you care submitting a map sketch for an ECW game ?

[oi_you_nutter]

i can barely draw a straight line with a ruler, so a ECW era map is impossible for ME leure: but not for your talented artists

[Anguille]

Ouah....je n'ai pas encore BoA (je vais l'acheter dès que je le vois) et je me réjouis déjà comme un enfant pour le prochain!!!

Allez Philippe...qu'est ce que ce sera?

[Korrigan]

Allez Philippe...qu'est ce que ce sera?

Pour moi, ce sera un demi, merci!

PS: Tu peux commander le jeu directementsur le site d'AGEOD ou le télécharger sans attendre.

[PhilThib]

i can barely draw a straight line with a ruler, so a ECW era map is impossible for ME leure: but not for your talented artists

Well, nobody is perfect ... what I had in mind was more or less and "rough" cut of the region / provinces that should be in the British Isles in order to have an operational / strategical game of interest for the ECW... may be something a la Kingmaker ?

[Philippe]

Woul you care submitting a map sketch for an ECW game ?

A few years ago Clash of Arms games published Charles Vasey's The King's War, which has one of the most interesting area maps I've ever seen on a board game.

The effect of looking at the map for The King's War is curiously similar in many ways to looking at BoA zoomed out. And Charles Vasey even included one of his (spurious ?) ancestors along with a self-portrait for one of the lesser Cavalier generals.

The game was a bit hard to play, mostly because it was a board game and not a computer game. Too many rules to remember (the computer could handle all that and more in the background), and the map, though beautifully detailed, was a bit hard to read. And it was also sad that it didn't include Ireland, Scotland, and the later phases of the English Civil War.

It would have been particularly amusing to have a scenario covering the last (post-Cromwell) civil war, with each side having to make a random check each turn to see if they could still remember why they were fighting (if neither side can remember why on the same turn the war comes to an abrupt, negotiated conclusion).

[D.J. Hawkman]

Crimean War..Pleasssse......Please!!!!!! Please!

[PhilThib]

Crimean war will be part of our upcoming project "Vainglory of Nations" that covers 1850-1920.

However, not with the level of operational detail you would expect... I doubt there would be sufficient clients for this as a stand-alone game leure:

[D.J. Hawkman]

leure: leure: .....I guess..Somthing is better then Nothing.....
Look foward to it.....

[Anguille]

Pour moi, ce sera un demi, merci!

PS: Tu peux commander le jeu directementsur le site d'AGEOD ou le télécharger sans attendre.

C'est bon...je l'ai....