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Gameplay Example: Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity

I love Sins of a Solar Empire. I loved it when it came out. It got even better with Entrenchment. But for me, Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy helps take it to a new level. When combined, you get Sins of a Solar Empire: Trinity. Don’t have Sins of a Solar Empire? Get it. Now. Stop reading this and go get it. For every PC gamer who has loved games like Total Annihilation, Warcraft, Age of Empires or Homeworld, this is the game for you. It has incredible scale. It has truly uniqu... [read more]

2/4/2010 By Frogboy in Sins Developer Journals

IGN Previews Sins of a Solar Empire - Diplomacy

IGN has posted a preview of Sins of a Solar Empire - Diplomacy, based on their experiences with a late beta of the upcoming micro-expansion. "Diplomacy is a bit of a game changer and adds a missing element to the game. In the same way that Entrenchment helped to reorient the combat by giving players defensive options that encouraged bigger and better space battles, Diplomacy seems to give players an opportunity to compete with each other much more indirectly. Better still, it can really help... [read more]

2/4/2010 By Yarlen in Sins News

Diplomacy Beta Comes to an End

The beta for Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy pre-order customers is now over.  All pre-order customers will gain access to the final version of Diplomacy this coming Tuesday, February 9th.  Ironclad and Stardock would like to extend our thanks to all of the testers who participated in the Diplomacy beta and provided feedback. It's no exaggeration that Diplomacy was greatly changed based on your feedback! For Diplomacy testers:  If you update your copies of Sins of a Solar Emp... [read more]

2/3/2010 By Yarlen in Sins News

Sins of a Solar Empire v1.19 and Entrenchment v1.05 Released

Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are pleased to announce the releases of version 1.19 for Sins of a Solar Empire and version 1.05 for Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment today. Both updates are available for all registered customers exclusively via the Impulse client ( http://www.impulsedriven.com ). These updates include a number of bug fixes, balance tweaks, and additional changes for modders. For a complete change log visit - https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/374465 [read more]

2/3/2010 By Yarlen in Sins News

Neoseeker Interview about Sins: Diplomacy

The fine folks at Neoseeker.com recently had a chat with Stardock’s Brian Clair about the upcoming micro-expansion Diplomacy for Sins of a Solar Empire. “We recently visited the IronClad studio to chat with them about the upcoming Diplomacy micro-expansion for their award-winning Sins of a Solar Empire 4X RTS title. We had a few more questions for the team but they're busy working on the final stages of development as they prep for the Feb 9th launch. So, we got in touch w... [read more]

1/29/2010 By Island Dog in Sins News

ChartBox Puts Sins in List of Best RTS Games of All Time!

Chart-box.com has published a list of their top 10 best Real Time Strategy games of all time.  Coming in a number 4 we have Sins of a Solar Empire! " From a rather unknown developer, Sins took bold steps and big risks to blend the typical turned based strategy with the RTS genre. Thankfully for us they managed to nail it, bringing to the table a completely new style of RTS. Featuring unparalleled scale and intelligently complex tactical thinking. Sins breaks the mould and stands ou... [read more]

1/25/2010 By Island Dog in Sins News

Sins - Diplomacy Beta 3 Released

Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are pleased to announce the release of Beta 3 for the upcoming Sins of a Solar Empire - Diplomacy. Beta 3 is now available for all pre-order customers of the Diplomacy micro-expansion or Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity via the Impulse client. For a list of the changes in this new update, see: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/373286 [read more]

1/7/2010 By Yarlen in Sins News

Elemental: Go buy the February issue of PC Gamer now!

The February 2010 issue of PC Gamer lists the Top 10 games of 2010.  And guess which game made the list? That’s right’s Starcraft II.  But there’s one other strategy game on there – a turn based strategy game at that: ELEMENTAL along with an exclusive screenshot. Here’s a little teaser (not the same shot but similar): [read more]

1/6/2010 By Frogboy in Elemental News

Top 10 games of the decade

The decade is...just about over. Here's my list of the 10 best games of the decade: >> Brad's top 10 best games of the 2000's [read more]

12/31/2009 By Frogboy in Sins News

Sins in the “50 Greatest Games of the Decade” from GameStooge

GameStooge.com has published the first part of their “50 Great Games of the Decade”, and Sins of a Solar Empire has made the list at #48! “Adding to the deep strategy was the look of the game; it is one of the most visually stunning strategy games of all time. Planets were varied in their composition, and every change the player made had an affect on the planet and ships. Zooming into a planet with many cities, for instance, revealed traffic air lanes zipping through ... [read more]

12/17/2009 By Island Dog in Sins News

Quick Video Demo: Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy Beta 2

Curious about some of the quick highlights of Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy? I threw together a quick video demo to walk players to show what we have in beta 2. If you don’t have Sins of a Solar Empire visit https://www.sinsofasolarempire.com to get it. You can get Beta 2 of Sins Diplomacy right now (it’s pretty solid at this point).  Whether you like it single player or multiplayer, I think you’ll find DIplomacy to be well worth it. [read more]

12/15/2009 By Frogboy in Sins Developer Journals

Sins - Diplomacy Beta 2 Released

Ironclad Games and Stardock have released Beta 2 for the upcoming Sins of a Solar Empire micro-expansion, Diplomacy. Available now via Impulse for pre-order customers, Beta 2 contains major changes to the gameplay mechanics of the expansion, updated tech trees and more. For a list of the Beta 2 changes, see: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/371250 Those who want to get into the Diplomacy beta can order from the Store  (Sins of a Solar Empire and Entrenchment are required for D... [read more]

12/10/2009 By Yarlen in Sins News

Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity Announced

Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are pleased to announce Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity today. Trinity is a compilation bundle which includes the award-winning Sins of a Solar Empire along with the Entrenchment and Diplomacy micro-expansions. As a special incentive, those who pre-order Trinity will gain access to the current Diplomacy beta via Impulse. For more information see: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/371186 [read more]

12/9/2009 By Yarlen in Sins News

Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy BETA released

For gamers willing to brave the beta process, Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy beta 1 is now available to those who have pre-ordered it.  Those who went through the Entrenchment beta can attest that these betas are the real thing and not merely an exercise in marketing. Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy builds on what was added in Entrenchment, the first micro-expansion pack to the award-winning PC strategy game. In Diplomacy, players can give AI players missions, build envoy ships ... [read more]

11/23/2009 By Frogboy in Sins News

Sins: Diplomacy Beta 1 Set for Monday

Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are pleased to announce the planned start of Beta 1 for Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy on Monday, November 23rd. All Diplomacy pre-orders will be charged on Monday with access to the beta (which will not be fun, per our usual disclaimer).  Beta 1 will not be feature complete but will contain: New Envoy cruisers, Embassies, Diplomacy tech tree (much more to come here, only the backbone will be present), Mission Generator, the beginnings of... [read more]

11/20/2009 By Yarlen in Sins News

Stardock 2009 report

Each year, like most companies, Stardock puts together an internal business plan that sets up goals, objectives, and challenges that the company must address. Part of our internal business plan includes analysis of the state of the products/services we make as well as the results of our customer survey. Last year,  we made this report available to the public and based on the positive response we got for doing so, we’re doing the same again this year. View:  St... [read more]

11/19/2009 By Frogboy in Elemental News

Sins of a Solar Empire and Entrenchment Hotfixes Released

Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment have released hotfixes for Sins of a Solar Empire and Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment today.  These hotfixes resolve issues discovered by players after the release of the previous updates. For more information, just click-through to: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/366182 [read more]

10/7/2009 By Yarlen in Sins News

Organize Your PC Desktop with Stardock's Fences 1.0

  Stardock , the world leader in desktop customization, today released the highly anticipated version 1.0 of its popular and free desktop organization application, Fences. Fences is a one-of-a-kind program designed to organize the desktop by allowing users to customize how icons and files reside on the desktop based on user-defined preferences. Fences is the ultimate tool for those users who want to keep their PC desktop clear of clutter. Fences works by allowing users to &ldqu... [read more]

10/6/2009 By Island Dog in Sins News

Organize Your PC Desktop with Stardock's Fences 1.0

Stardock , the world leader in desktop customization, today released the highly anticipated version 1.0 of its popular and free desktop organization application, Fences. Fences is a one-of-a-kind program designed to organize the desktop by allowing users to customize how icons and files reside on the desktop based on user-defined preferences. Fences is the ultimate tool for those users who want to keep their PC desktop clear of clutter. Fences works by allowing users to “dra... [read more]

10/6/2009 By Island Dog in Elemental News

First Diplomacy Screenshots are on IGN.com!

The first screenshots for Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy are now up on IGN.com!  Diplomacy is the second micro-expansion for the award winning PC game, Sins of a Solar Empire. Head over to IGN.com and take a look! See More Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy Various at IGN.com [read more]

10/2/2009 By Island Dog in Sins News

Sins of a Solar Empire v1.18 and Entrenchment v1.04 Available Now

Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are pleased to announce the release of Sins of a Solar Empire v1.18 and Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment v1.04 to all registered customers.  Now available via the Impulse client ( http://www.impulsedriven.com ), these latest updates include a major rebalancing of the game across all three races based on player feedback. For a complete list of changes, please visit: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/364878/ [read more]

9/30/2009 By Yarlen in Sins News

October 1 deadline to get into the beta

The deadline to get into Elemental Beta 1 ends October 1st. But lest you think this is a call to join the beta, let me warn you, the beta is a land of horror and agony.  Even now, most of the beta testers are requiring long-term psychiatric care to continue functioning. But if you are a true masochist, you can pre-order now and get into the beta as we are putting together the game mechanics and help mold the final game. [read more]

9/28/2009 By Frogboy in Elemental News

Shacknews Interview with Brad Wardell on Elemental

Shacknews.com has a fantastic, and very informative interview with Stardock CEO, Brad Wardell, on the upcoming PC game Elemental: War of Magic . “Shack: [laughs] We should cover Elemental before we get into that. Now, there aren't many companies that are still making these kinds of games anymore. Do you take a conservative approach in figuring out whether your audience can support a game like this, or do you just make what you think is fun and go from there? Brad Wardell: ... [read more]

9/24/2009 By Island Dog in Elemental News

Sins of a Solar Empire v1.18 | Entrenchment v1.04 Change Logs

Coming soon for registered Sins and Entrenchment customers is a major balance update in the form of Sins of a Solar Empire v1.18 and Sins of a Solar Empire: Entrenchment: v1.04.  For a full list of the changes, just click-through below: https://forums.sinsofasolarempire.com/364878/ [read more]

9/23/2009 By Yarlen in Sins News

Sins: Diplomacy Pre-Orders Begin

Ironclad Games and Stardock Entertainment are pleased to announce pre-orders for the upcoming Sins of a Solar Empire micro-expansion, Diplomacy. After 25 years of war, some elements of the TEC, Vasari and Advent have grown weary of conflict and desperately seek a respite. The decision is made to attempt peaceful negotiations to end the wars, but others view this new effort at diplomacy as the perfect means to destroy their enemies from within. Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy will add a new ... [read more]

9/15/2009 By Yarlen in Sins News

Shacknews Takes a Look at Elemental Screenshots

The fine folks at Shacknews.com grabbed some screenshots of Elemental: War of Magic and gave them a thorough look. “While the art style for Stardock's Elemental: War of Magic is pretty snazzy, screenshots are really only showing half of the story. During a live demonstration at PAX, the other half became immediately apparent: it's all about the zoom.” Read the full article at Shacknews.com . [read more]

9/11/2009 By Island Dog in Elemental News

Colony of Gamers Look at Elemental

Ghostbear from Colony of Gamers was in attendance at PAX, and got a walkthrough of Elemental: War of Magic from Stardock’s Paul Boyer. “Exploration is a large part of the game as well, you'll find dungeons, random encounters, treasure. What you really want to find are the elemental shards, once found you'll want to build an outpost and shrine, so that you'll be able to channel the magic it possesses. Once you have multiple elements you can cast spells that combine those ... [read more]

9/10/2009 By Island Dog in Elemental News

Big Download Has Impressions of Elemental from PAX

Without a doubt one of the biggest hits for Stardock at this years Penny Arcade Expo was the upcoming Elemental: War of Magic.  Previews and impressions are starting to come out, and today we have one from Big Download. “Your character is basically a very powerful magic user who wants to rule the land. There are several ways he can do this. One is by keeping his power inside him and having that power grow so he can use more and more powerful spells. We got an example of that in ... [read more]

9/9/2009 By Island Dog in Elemental News

Ready to Play beta sign up now live

Stardock is pleased to announce that the Ready to Play beta is about to begin.  Ready to Play is a revolutionary new program that enables gamers to create an on-line gaming profile of themselves after which Ready to Play will produce a “recommended friends” list.  Then, when the player is ready to play a particular game, they can broadcast to any available friends or recommended friends that they are about to launch a particular game and join in. “If you’ve ... [read more]

9/9/2009 By Island Dog in Sins News

Sins Limits

We have no idea why, but support has recently been bombarded by requests for the limits of various systems in the Iron Engine. Thus, I have taken the time to compile a list of as many as a I could within my breakfast and lunch timeframe. I will add more as requested as this is certainly not comprehensive. I hope it helps enum { MaxNumWeaponBanks = 4 }; enum { MAX_NUM_MESHES = 400 }; enum { MAX_NUM_FILE_TEXTURES = 1000 }; enum { MAX_NUM_FILE_CUBE_TEXTURES = 10 }; enum { MAX_SOUNDDATA =... [read more]

9/8/2009 By Blair Fraser in Sins Developer Journals

GamaSutra Interview About Elemental's Strategy-Centric Modding Engine

GamaSutra’s Chris Remo has another interview with Brad Wardell, this time focusing on the modding engine in the upcoming game, Elemental: War of Magic .  “Elemental makes use of a level of detail system paired to its zoom feature that swaps out different models and textures as the player moves from examining individual workers at ground level up to viewing whole continents, at which point the perspective blends into a flat 2D "cloth map." That will be available to ... [read more]

9/1/2009 By Island Dog in Elemental News

IGN Interview with Stardock’s Scott Tykoski

IGN.com has an interview with Elemental’s Producer, Scott Tykoski about the art style of Elemental: War of Magic .  I'd like to say that Elemental's visual style was chosen purely for the love of art. That the style was risky but required to properly lay fourth our grand vision of dead world refueled by magic. That the style would finally establish video games as works of art and we can all celebrate our incredible cultural triumph! Read the full interview at IGN . ... [read more]

8/28/2009 By Island Dog in Elemental News

PC World Takes a Look at Sins of a Solar Empire: Diplomacy

  PC World’s Game Blog, “ Game On ”, has a featured article about the upcoming micro-expansion Diplomacy, for the award winning PC game Sins of a Solar Empire .  “Reportedly the expansion adds a new diplomatic tech tree that'll let you bolster your deal-brokering skills, adds diplomatic envoy ships (presumably to help craft treaties or facilitate dialogue during hostilities), and allows you to craft trade treaties with other factions. The bet... [read more]

8/26/2009 By Island Dog in Sins News

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