Wow its been a while. Summer’s over and schools back in session. Unfortunately I didn’t accomplish as much this summer as I had hoped to.

Recently I have been playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3: Complete brought to you by Good Old Games your neighborly DRM free, digital download, game store. Homm3 is a timeless classic TBS game. You lead your armies around the map collecting resources. With those resources you can recruit creatures for your armies at your castles. You can upgrade your cities to give you more resources, upgrade troops or improve your heroes. And then of course vanquish your enemies. It’s a lot of fun fun for $9.99. It comes with a lot of campaigns that are quite difficult. The only problem is that games take a very long time to finish.

There is also a Russian fan made expansion called In the Wake of the Gods. (For some reason I can no longer find the page on google. Just the Russian page shows up. What has google been doing!?) I am surprised about how much they have added. Though it does crash more than the original. (Which still crashes sometimes). A nice thing is that though they have a lot of options most all of them can be disabled if you don’t like that particular feature.

There is a free and open source project called VCMI which is trying to recreate a new engine for HOMM3:WOG. It is not very complete right now. Besides Linux support they plan to add more functionality to HOMM3. This will hopefully allow the mods to add those features that the original engine does not permit.