Website www.ironcladgames.com Founded 2003 | Headquarters Burnaby, Canada Type of business Private | |
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Industry Computer and video game industry Products Sins of a Solar Empire,
Sins of a Dark Age | ||
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Ironclad Games is a Canadian PC game developer. The company was founded in 2003 by former employees of Barking Dog Studios and Rockstar Games. Ironclad is located in Burnaby, British Columbia.
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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. Approximately a year after the initial release of Sins of a Solar Empire they then went on to release the Entrenchment expansion on February 11, 2009. The second expansion pack for Sins of a Solar Empire, titled Diplomacy, was released on February 9, 2010. 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.
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).