Monthly Archives: January 2012

In this week’s MMM blog entry, Robot’s Community Manager Justin Korthof verified that Hero Academy would indeed be coming to Android. He also gave a nod to Robot Fans. Justin even used the term “proper” in referring to us. I guess that means we have some street cred.

 Read the full blog entry here

Recently the War Mage difficulty high scores have been falling like rocks because of a new tactic used by OMD player and Robot forum member hungryhungryhipp. REfans.com talked to HHH and asked him for some info on the tactic. He supplied us with the following explanation and video to show it.

The crux of the way to get higher scores is to utilise weapon switching between the XBow and the BladeStaff. By doing this successfully you can get an extra combo on each orc which is a MASSIVE difference in the score. You lose out a little by performing a combat kill instead of letting the traps finish the job but the difference is still worth it.

Here’s what I try to do:

1. When the orcs approach the killbox, use the bladestaff. Stand at the back or offset on your trap by the tar, so that the orcs get effected by as many traps as possible.
2. When the orc steps onto the tar/grinder quickly switch to the Xbow and finish the job.
3. Switch back onto the bladestaff again for more combo building.

it’s a dead simple process but i’ve not seen anyone else doing this as a full on strat.

When the orcs are thicker, you need to spend more time on the Xbow to stop the grinder getting jammed up. you basically need to utilise every moment that you would be uselessly swinging the blade staff to the Xbow instead, back and forth to get the most combo points.

Before you get all your traps etc setup you will find that the Xbox is generally better. Once all the traps are in place you will spend more time on the Bladestaff as the orcs don’t jam up the grinder as much.

Using this with the right killbox traps can allow you to score 9x combos on the orcs occasionally, and pretty consistent 7x and 8x combos. Even with the barricades you can still pull off 11x Combos on the ogres with this as well.

Hats off to moncole on the Robot Entertainment forums who picked up on Hero Academy featuring on the home page of Dorkly today. In case you didnt know, Dorkly produce some very amusing online comic strips from various video games. Its actually run by the same guys behind College Humour.

Anywho, check out their piece on Hero Academy which went up today, its great to see the game getting exposure like this!

Check out the full post on Dorkly below:

http://www.dorkly.com/comic/31212/how-to-succeed-in-hero-academy-without-really-trying 

Robot character artist Chris "MUPPETMAN" Moffitt was kind enough to share some of his personal art with us this week. When he’s not working on great games at Robot Entertainment, he also does all types of sketches and other pieces of art. We hope to spend some time soon and interview Chris about the process of creating characters for video games. Chris also has a personal website where you can check out more of his work. Just go to http://www.chrismoffitt.com/

Players wanting to know how the x13 was solved in Orcs Must Die will enjoy a new three part series about the accomplishment. The 45 minute guide takes you through the thought process and strategies that were used to solve the puzzle. Radiokenny also supplied the onslaught files that were used to make the video.

Part one of the Anatomy of the x13

Part two of the Anatomy of the x13

Part three of the Anatomy of the x13

Modded onslaught files download

Click here to listen to the interview