Prerelease:Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest
This page details prerelease information and/or media for Heroes of Might and Magic: A Strategic Quest.
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Winter CES 1994 (January '94)[1]
Obviously a screenshot from a preview trailer, featuring unseen and much bigger than in final release buildings, hero and decorations. There are also no hero portraits, only hero classes images. Some of shown buildings miniatures can be found in OBJECT32.ICN from the final release.
A piece of music for winter CES preview by Tim Tully & Greg Alper:
Interactive Entertainment Issue #4 - August 1994 (Screenshots July '94)[1][2]
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Scrapped crest and hero (Alamar?).
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Probably mashup of creature graphics, Paladin without a cape.
Interactive Entertainment Issue #10 - February 1995 [1][3]
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Unused Tree Stump, different coastline. Hero can't be placed on this map tile in a map editor, because it's adjacent to a lake, so this screenshot was most probably taken when in-game. Pikeman's idle position (in vanilla present only in a map editor) indicates that his adventure map miniature didn't have an animation at this time.
Other Screenshots
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Different font, Hero's main skills are placed differently.
CGW 128 march 1995 page 41 and CGW 137 december 1995 page 364. By assessing size and placement of obstacles and heroes (85x64 pixels instead of 50x32 pixels), we can assume that objects tiles were as big as 64x64 pixels instead of final 32x32.
Old tents, Gargoyle's ray is set a bit more to the left than in final version of attack sequence. From box cover[4].