Portugal 1111: A Conquista de Soure

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Portugal 1111: A conquista de Soure
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Developer(s) Ciberbit
Publisher(s) Visão
Composer(s) Amílcar Cardoso
João Redondo
Platform(s) Windows
Release
Genre(s) Real-time strategy
Mode(s) Single-player

Portugal 1111: A Conquista de Soure ("Portugal 1111: The Conquest of Soure") is a real-time strategy game developed by Ciberbit, a Portuguese multimedia company, in partnership with the Municipality of Soure and historians from the University of Coimbra. The game depicts the historical events of the Portuguese Reconquista , when the Christians fought against Moorish invaders.

It was the first commercial video game completely produced and designed in Portugal. [1]

The game, a historic real-time strategy game similar to Microsoft's Age of Empires, was published by the Portuguese magazine Visão and was released in 2004.

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