Veteran board game designer Glenn Drover has signed a deal with strategy publisher Slitherine to create games specifically for the PC. These games won’t be straight adaptations of physical board games (as in something like Heroes of Normandie), but designed with digital platforms in mind.
Drover - who has worked on popular board games like Railroad Tycoon: The Board game, Conquest of the Empire and Age of Empires III: The Age of Discovery - will work on a new project called Victory and Glory: Napoleon, which is set for release in January 2016.
“With a staggering growth of 40% over the past year, the board games sector is vital and an ever growing source of inspiration for original gameplay mechanics”, said Marco A. Minoli, Director of Marketing at Slitherine. “Games are either coming straight from the board, like the recent, successful release of Heroes of Normandie, or are designed from the ground up by popular designers, such a John Butterfield’s Battle of the Bulge. Victory and Glory is a thrilling project, because it mixes mechanics created specifically for the digital platform, by a designer who’s used to work on the board to transpose PC games”.
Victory and Glory: Napoleon takes place on grand strategy level map of the Napoleonic campaigns, casting players as the famous French leader and tasking them with building their empire up. It features six seperate historical scenarios, as well as tactical cards and Event cards signifying various units and historical events.
Find out more about the game over on Slitherine’s website.
