Fact Sheet
Developer
HexDraw
Publisher
MicroProse
Release Date
To be announced
Platform
Steam
Regular Price
To be announced
Game Website
Publisher Website
Press & Business contact
Social Media
Description
Second Front offers a unique and infinitely replayable WW2 wargaming experience. It shows turn based actions of single officers and groups of soldiers manning weapons like MGs or flamethrowers. Players maneuver tanks and other historical vehicles on dynamic battlefields.
Game Features
- Turnbased strategic WW2 wargame on 3D hexgrid maps with accessible buildings and hills with up to 4 levels, hedges and brick walls to give you cover.
- About 200 lovingly designed tanks, halftracks, trucks, guns, small weapons, flamethrowers, smoke dispensers … all in 3D and also with an info card for better handling.
- Highlighted LOS
- Turn turrets, chose between different turret guns and MGs on your tanks, pick up or drop MGs, throw smoke grenades, transport soldiers in trucks and halftracks.
- AI with surprising clever and unpredictable actions – beware!
Videos & Pictures
Download Images as zip (1,62 mb)
Download Logos as zip (1,07 mb)
History
About HexDraw
HexDraw was founded by Jo Bader, a long time wargamer and programmer. Jo combines his skills to create strategic games based on hexgrids.
HexDraw is based in Austria.
The first product was the name giving software HexDraw, a computer game development software with a focus on hexgrid wargames.
The second products is the PC & Mac game “Tank on Tank Digital”, a well-known Lock’n’Load board game transferred into a 2D computer game, with 38 different scenarios in two modules and some longer campaigns. “Tank on Tank Digital” is available on Steam after passing Green Light since May 2017.
About Second Front
After extensive planning and a lot of brainstorming we seriously started working full time on „Second Front“ in April 2018.
We launched our Steam Page in March 2020, and we are proud that MicroProse is our publisher since May 2020.
We are constantly working towards the release of Second Front. But even after that we will not stop the development but constantly improve and supplement.
The Team
There’s Jo, in charge of everything … he is the programmer and works on the AI.
Our great graphics are made by Renan.
Videos & pictures are edited by Rosy, who also makes sure that Jo works exclusively on Second Front and has no private live anymore.
Tim works on historical research.
Philipp puts in his math & physics skills.
And a few more helping hands & brains, which we appreciate very much!
Press Mentions
- TheHistoricalGamer, Podcast with 3 MicroProse Developers including Jo, May 30, 2021
- Strategy and Wargaming, "Interview Second Front" April 30, 2021
- TortugaPower on YouTube "Second Front Developer Gameplay (2 of 2)", April 2021
- TortugaPower on YouTube "Second Front Developer Gameplay (1 of 2)", April 2021
- RockPaperShotgun, Tim Stones "The Flare Path A2Z" May 22, 2020 look out for "B is for Big ta"
- PC Gamer "Microprose is back with three war simulation games covering land, sea, and sky." May 2020
- GameWorldObserver "MicroProse is back with three new titles", May 6, 2020
- RockPaperShotgun, Tim Stones "The FlarePath A2Z", April 3, 2020, look out for "LoS Leader"
- RockPaperShotgun, Tim Stone "Potentially my Game of the Year” Jan 3, 2020, a detailed article and motivating for our team!
- Rock Paper Shotgun, Tim Stones "The Flare Path A2Z" Nov 29, 2019, look out for "O is for Obligatory Second Front video"
- Rock Paper Shotgun, Tim Stones "The Flare Path A2Z" Oct 25, 2019, look out for "R is for Riding shotgun"
- Rock Paper Shotgun, Tim Stones "The Flare Path A2Z" Sept 13, 2019, look out for "Y is for Yearnworthy"
- Spanish Blog "Punta de Lanza", ongoing documentation about our game development (gracias amigos!)
