Age of the Tempest

Age of the Tempest (Finnish: Myrskyn sankarit; formerly titled Heroes of the Storm in English) is a tabletop role-playing game, designed by Mike Pohjola and published by the board game company Tactic. The first part, Heroes of the Storm – Sword of the Great King was published in 2013 and retitled into Age of the Tempest – Sword of the High King in May 2014. Age of the Tempest – Sword of the High King (translated by Ville-Eemeli Miettinen) is about forest-dwelling rebels, who fight against the troops of the evil dictator.[1]

The cover of Age of the Tempest – Sword of the High King

The role-playing game was first published in Finland in Finnish, and later internationally in English, initially as Heroes of the Storm, and finally as Age of the Tempest. The role-playing game is published as a boxed set, and is available in Finland in book stores, department stores and hypermarkets, as well as traditional gaming stores. International distribution will take most of 2013.[2]

The game was crowdfunded in 2012 with a campaign that gathered gamers both from Finland and all over the world.[3]

Trademark dispute

In October 2013, when the game was titled Heroes of the Storm, video game company Blizzard Entertainment changed the title of its upcoming video game to Heroes of the Storm, causing a dispute about the trademark.[4] According to the trademark database TMview, provided by the European trademark registry OHIM, Blizzard applied for an EU-wide Community trade mark in September 2013, which was registered in February 2014, whereas Mike Pohjola applied for a Finnish trademark in October 2013.[5] In May 2014, the role-playing game changed its name to Age of the Tempest and Pohjola's trademark application was withdrawn.

gollark: An AI designed to write optimized BF versions of itself will be far too confused by reality to wipe out humans.
gollark: We should make self-improving AIs in esolangs so that their internal models of things will be far enough from reality that they cannot destroy humanity.
gollark: What if your AI takes over the world or something?
gollark: Because caddy is being annoying, and because I cannot be bothered to try and work out how caddy v2 works, I'm switching some osmarks.tk services back to nginx.
gollark: They have to write code which works *very fast* (speed is such an issue that there are special expensive high-clocked xeon CPUs available, or at least were), and can throw tons of money at 1337 programmers.

References
  1. http://www.pelaajalehti.com/uutiset/joukkorahoitteinen-suomalaisroolipeli-onnistui-tavoitteessaan
  2. http://www.ts.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/514053/Mike+Pohjola+loi+Suomen+ensimmaisen+joukkorahoitetun+roolipelin
  3. http://dome.fi/pelit/ajankohtaista/joukkorahoitettu-suomalaisroolipeli-myrskyn-sankarit-julkaistaan-viikonloppuna
  4. Engen, Josh (22 October 2013). "Heroes of the Storm May Face Difficulties at EU Trademark Offices". The Escapist. Retrieved 17 September 2014.
  5. "TMview database". s.v. "Heroes of the Storm". Retrieved 22 June 2014.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.