Ironclad Games

Ironclad GamesType| Private

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Industry| Video games
Founded| 2003
Headquarters| Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Products| Sins of a Solar Empire, Sins of a Dark Age

Ironclad Games is a Canadian PC game developer. The company was founded in 2003 by former employees of Rockstar Vancouver. Ironclad is located in Burnaby, British Columbia.

## Contents

* 1 Titles
* 2 Iron engine
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Titles

Ironclad released their first game, Sins of a Solar Empire on February 4, 2008, a game that features a mix of components from real-time strategy and 4X strategy games.[1] They released the Entrenchment expansion on February 11, 2009.[2] The second expansion pack, Diplomacy, was released on February 9, 2010: the Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity combination package, which included the Entrenchment and Diplomacy expansions, was also released on the same day.[3] On February 21, 2012, they announced Sins of a Dark Age, a multiplayer online battle arena game set in a pre-war fantasy environment. A standalone expansion pack called Rebellion, was also released for Sins of a Solar Empire on June 12, 2012.[4] In 2022 Ironclad announced Sins of a Solar Empire 2, Beta Starting October 27, 2022[5]

## Iron engine

Ironclad's Iron Engine supports a number of advanced features including per-pixel specular lighting, dynamic fractal generation, post-process bloom filtering, environment mapping, custom pixel and vertex shaders for all meshes and effects and an advanced particle system.

v1.0 was used in Sins of a Solar Empire (2008).

v2.0 was used in Sins of a Dark Age (2012).

v3.0 is being used in Sins of a Solar Empire 2 (2022)

## References

1. ↑ "Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion" (in en). https://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/.
2. ↑ "Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment Announced! » Forum Post by Zoomba". https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/322509/page/1/.
3. ↑ "Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity Announced » Forum Post by Yarlen". https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/371186/page/1/.
4. ↑ "GameSpy: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Arrives June 12 - Page 1". http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/sins-of-a-solar-empire-rebellion/1222440p1.html.
5. ↑ Fraser Brown (2022-09-15). "Sins of a Solar Empire 2 is reaching for the stars" (in en). PC Gamer. https://www.pcgamer.com/sins-of-a-solar-empire-2-is-reaching-for-the-stars/.

## External links

* Ironclad website

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