Talisman board game will be launching a video game in two weeks said its developer Nomad Games, Eurogamer reported.
Nomad Games will launch Talisman: Prologue which is a single-player quest-based virtual version of the board game. It has been licensed and uses the same rules, characters and system fans of the board game.
The game will have ten characters, from warrior to wizard, each one are given five quests. After completing all the character quests, players will unlock an "uber" quest.
"When you look at the rules you think, 'oh gosh, so, in these circumstances that can't do that and this can't do that,'" Nomad commercial director Don Whiteford explained. "The virtual product can simplify that and deliver it to the player in a palatable way."
The quest system is so designed as to let players experience different characters and their strengths and weaknesses. "If you've got the board game, in order to try out 10 different characters you're going to have to play the thing 10 times," Whiteford said. "And even then after 10 times you're probably not fully au fait with what that character can really do strategically."
Nomad took up this work due to the success from other video game version of board games like Carcassonne, Catan and Ticket to Ride.
"The questing system is a great way to get people into the game and let you try stuff out."
"You won't ever beat that evening experience of, let's get together and play a game of Talisman with your mates. You get a load of beer in and you sit down, you get the physical board game out. There's no mistake. In that environment that's where you play the board game," Whiteford added.
"But a lot of people don't find themselves in the situation where their mates are around, or there not enough to play, or they're travelling and they like the game. That's where the virtual version comes into its own."
The game is being targeted for a Nov. 22 or 23 launch on PC. It will be costing £5.99 ($9.5).
A bigger version of the game is planned replete with AI, multiplayer and a new set of quests for Prologue that will launch on mobiles, tablets and PC early 2013.
