The Hero-U combines turn-based, tactical combat and dungeon exploration with rich character interactions, challenging puzzles, and an immersive story. Acclaimed game designers Corey and Lori Cole – creators of the award-winning Quest for Glory series and Castle of Dr. Brain – take you on an epic role-playing journey.

Your life has not been an easy one. Caught red-handed during your thieves’ guild initiation, you have a seemingly-easy choice – Go to reform school or rot away in prison. The teachers and students are intent on making your life a living hell, while trouble lurks in the catacombs below. It’d help if you didn’t need to worry about being killed and passing midterms.

Corey and Lori Cole have assembled a star development team featuring Brawsome, developers of the award winning MacGuffin’s Curse and Jolly Rover. The School for Heroes features:

• Tactical combat, where player choices make a real difference
• Branching conversations that affect your relationship with other characters
• Characters with unique personalities and their own agendas
• Challenging puzzles that are an important, organic part of the story
• Meaningful choices between exploration, study, and social interaction

We've been working on the upcoming combat system for Hero-U. It's a blend of tactical maneuvers and turn-based combat. Should be much fun.​

“It has threads from the Quest for Glory universe, but it’s a very different game,” says Lori. “It won’t look anything like it.”

[...] “Graphically, it’s going to be quite different from Quest for Glory,” says Corey. “The role-playing type adventure will actually be on a 2-D tiled map, [where players can] explore the catacombs and the school itself. It’s a top-down look. You will be doing all of the crucial role-playing type things, like fighting monsters, but our [game] is very tightly scripted, so there’s a purpose any time you go down to those catacombs. Things you’re looking for, things you want to discover, sometimes specific monsters you want to defeat — all these things advance the story line.”

[..] While the game itself will not be multiplayer or social, the Coles hope to engender a vibrant forum during development and after release. “One of our plans is to really build the website into a community. I can’t talk too much about what we’re doing with it, but it will basically track what you’re doing in the game — if you choose to sign up for that feature — and it will allow people to talk about their experiences. It will be the players interacting, as opposed to their characters.”

[...] “At this point, we’re going to try and go for $400,000,” says Corey. “I’m doing some budget exercises right now. We know we can make the game at $450,000, but we’re trying to see if we can do it for $400,000.”

The amount of funding will have a substantial impact on the breadth of the game and its social community, Corey explains. “If we barely make [the original] goal, then we’ll be struggling to even get a game out, but we’ll do it.”​