Ironclad Games
{{Short description|Canadian PC game developer}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Ironclad Games
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| type = Private
| foundation = 2003
| location = Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
| industry = Video games
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| products = Sins of a Solar Empire,
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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.
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.{{Cite web|title=Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion|url=https://www.sinsofasolarempire.com/|access-date=2021-11-16|website=Sins of a Solar Empire|language=en}} They released the Entrenchment expansion on February 11, 2009.{{Cite web|title=Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment Announced! » Forum Post by Zoomba|url=https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/322509/page/1/|access-date=2021-11-16|website=Sins of a Solar Empire Forums}} 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.{{Cite web|title=Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity Announced » Forum Post by Yarlen|url=https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/371186/page/1/|access-date=2021-11-16|website=Sins of a Solar Empire Forums}} 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.{{Cite web|title=GameSpy: Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion Arrives June 12 - Page 1|url=http://uk.pc.gamespy.com/pc/sins-of-a-solar-empire-rebellion/1222440p1.html|access-date=2021-11-16|website=uk.pc.gamespy.com}} In 2022 Ironclad announced Sins of a Solar Empire 2, Beta Starting October 27, 2022{{Cite news |author1=Fraser Brown |date=2022-09-15 |title=Sins of a Solar Empire 2 is reaching for the stars |language=en |work=PC Gamer |url=https://www.pcgamer.com/sins-of-a-solar-empire-2-is-reaching-for-the-stars/ |access-date=2022-10-23}}
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
External links
- [http://www.ironcladgames.com Ironclad website]
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Category:Video game companies of Canada
Category:Companies based in Burnaby
Category:Canadian companies established in 2003